I quite like Easter. I like teaching the boys the true reason why we celebrate – the Final Week of Christ’s Life. I like our re-enactments and the lessons and discussions we have. Here is Kevin bringing our “Jesus” into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday …
The other Easter stuff is fun, too. I DO love the egg coloring. I love it so much that we colored 6 dozen eggs this year! Each boy needed a full dozen – not that they whined or begged, I just made that decision for them – and a dozen for me!
They love writing names and messages and drawing pictures on the eggs …
Bobby really got into it and we heard a lot of “My egg! My egg!”
Sigh. Aren’t colored eggs so pretty?
Easter morning, the boys had to wait upstairs until everyone was awake. The Easter Bunny hides their baskets and all those colored eggs for them to find. Ricky might have been slow waking up …
Once everyone finds their baskets, they can start gathering eggs. Each boys got to find a dozen and then they worked together to get the last dozen found. There may have been some chocolate eaten along the way! We could have had an egg incident this year. I ate one of the eggs after boiling them because it cracked open, so we really had 6 dozen eggs minus 1. As we were finding the eggs Sunday morning, we counted them all up and I announced that we were only missing 1 egg. A few moments later, Tommy found TWO eggs. I was very confused because all the egg cartons were full! Where was the missing egg that I had eaten? We finally figured it out by touching each egg in the cartons as we counted … someone (cough Billy cough) had picked up my EOS chapstick thinking it was an egg! It is red and kind of egg shape, so no harm, no foul, but if Tommy hadn’t found those two eggs, we might have had an unknown missing egg floating around the house!
After all the eggs and baskets, it was a mad dash to get ready for church in time – and to humor Momma by taking a picture before church while they all still looked nice!
We clean up pretty good!
We had Grandmama over for Easter dinner, but the rest of the family didn’t come until the next weekend. Uncle John and Kevin spent time listening to General Conference and helping Ricky build a solar robot kit.
It looked cool but didn’t have much oomph!
Then Grandmama had an egg hunt for all the grandkids. Bobby totally had down the pick up an egg and throw it in your basket by then.
There may have been a couple hundred eggs hidden around our yard …
Certain eggs were a kind of currency that could be used to redeem prizes from Grandmama’s Easter Shop. The grown ups mostly hung out there.
Then we had to have bunny ear pictures.
I sure am a blessed lady!
