Happy Easter Everyone!!!
This year (like many Easter weekends) we had a very wet and rainy weekend. That didn't stop our fun though. Lets start with yesterday.
We went to the annual Easter egg hunt held in a park in Bubba's neighborhood. It really is set up well. They separate out the kids by age groups 0-3, 4-6, 7-8, 8-10, and 10+. The little ones have their eggs "hidden" on the tennis court, which is perfect as it is easy and not as dirty (we get to the dirty on Sunday). Here is Jack with his Nana (Bubba) finding eggs. He had a really good time.
Paige and Jonah were in the same field and did really good at finding the eggs too. Paige was super fast and then starting helping Jonah, which actually, he liked. With Paige while you still get a cheesy smile when you say smile, at least looks at the camera for an action shot.
Jonah, at first, was afraid he was going to melt (he really has polar opposites, afraid of the water, or he just sits in it clothes and all...) and was happy to have his Auntie with her umbrella to keep him dry. But then he started to get excited and was off.
After the Easter egg hunt, we had a quiet afternoon at home. Then we went out for dinner and to church. We normally go on Sunday morning, but they encouraged people to come to one of the Saturday night services, because the Easter Sunday service is really packed. This worked for us also so we had Sunday morning for just our family.
When the kids went to sleep, Julie and I hid a bunch of colored Cheerios's filled eggs around the house for the kids to find the next morning. Julie also hid some for me!!!
When everyone woke up we had our second Easter egg hunt. This one was dry...
After we finished our indoor hunt and had breakfast, plus a little chocolate, we suited up to go back outside. I had decided that we needed to go for a real hunt on Easter, GPS style. Bubba came along with us, and we went for a nice little hike in a trail system near our houses. The trail follows a creek (looked like a river today) from above. We found two Geocaches, and walked a little over two miles. It was a great afternoon. Once you decide to go out in the rain, it actually becomes fun. Everyone was a little wet, Jonah of course was a little cold, but altogether it was fun.
On our walk back we took Jack out of the jog stroller and let him walk for a ways. Basically, if you keep telling him there was another puddle up ahead, he would keep running along until the next puddle. Then we would stop and jump around a bit, and run off for the next puddle. He only fell into the mud a couple of times...
When we got back to the car, Jack was still finding puddles. Look at his pants, what a mess!!!
This evening we went to my Aunt Barbs for Easter dinner. It was a really nice end to the weekend. This time the kids didn't have to search at all, and managed to get the most chocolate of all. We have pictures, but we left the camera at her house. I still need to go back tonight and get it because Julie is concerned about not having a camera for a day or two, you never know when one of the kids will have a magical moment to photograph. In our digital world that translates to often.
In summary, lots chocolate, lots of hunting, lots of food, and lots of family. I only have one question; What is the connection between the resurrection, and a bunny that hides eggs?
2 comments:
That first picture of the 3 of them is soooo cute! What a great photo -- all three smiling so wonderfully! Not easy to catch with TWO, let alone MORE... I like your Easter basket, Mike, how exciting! Julie sure knows how to take care of you ;) That's so funny about Jack and his puddle-finding; it reminds me of Jonah on the glacier hike...but not so miserable, I bet, haha! Sounds like a great Easter!
and I put what I've heard about your question in the comments on our post, but basically just that rabbits and eggs were part of pagan springtime celebrations (representing fertility, return of life, etc.) and as Christianity spread, the celebration of the Resurrection and the simultaneous celebration of springtime kinda melded. So...in answer to your question, not a thing! but they go well together with the new life/renewal theme... okay, maybe this was more of a rhetorical, don't-really-need-an-answer question...but anyway...
They all look so grown-up in the first picture, espcially Paige. What a great Easter. We missed all the "professional" egg hunts this year. It looks like your kiddos had fun finding eggs and what a great hunt to go too.
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