Easter Celebrations

We had lots of fun celebrating Easter this year! 

 

We started our celebration by going through the Resurrection Eggs with our kids which they really loved.  Elijah really got into the story this year, and truly seemed to empathize with Jesus more than ever before.  His conversation with his Sunday School teacher that week went something like this:

 

Miss R: "So kids, today we are going to be talking more about Jesus' death on the cross and what that means for us."

Elijah (in all seriousness): "Miss R, you know I died on the cross one time." 

 

I have no idea what he was talking about, and when I asked him, he repeated the conversation without hesitation and didn't seemed phased by it even a little bit.  Okay, so maybe we need to go back through those eggs again:-). 

 

We decorated eggs with friends, and the kids had such a great time.  Elijah loved using the dipper to dunk the eggs in dye, and Auburn Grace loved sprinkling glitter on her dyed eggs.

 

 

Then on Easter Sunday, we had a potluck barbeque lunch and an Easter egg hunt for the kids.  This was AG's first hunt, and though she was slow, she was quite deliberate and ended up with lots of fun prizes!

 

 

 

 

Elijah had so much fun too running all over looking high and low for those last few eggs.

His absolute favorite prize that he found inside one of his eggs was a whistle- and for the rest of the day we heard all about it, literally.  He blew that whistle the entire rest of the egg hunt, the entire time the older kids had their egg hunt, the entire ride home, the entire afternoon, and then finally, we said the whistle was tired and was ready to go to bed!  And he still blows it every single day! 

Mommy and AG