Easter is always a fun holiday for me. It is so much easier to focus on Christ and the real meaning of Easter than it is at Christmas time. The world hasn’t completely taken over the holiday yet.
As per our custom, each day of Holy Week, we discussed what Jesus was doing that day. Starting with his Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday … (Charlie Brown playing Christ in our re-enactment)
To Him cleansing the temple on Mad Monday …
Mad Monday is the boys’ favorite of the days. I don’t know why they think it is so funny to swat over a bunch of tinker toys and then chase their brothers from the room, but they do.
They all HAVE to have their turn to cleanse the temple …
You can see Tommy and Ricky’s turns HERE.
We started calling each day by a name this year to help the boys remember what happened. Palm Sunday is a real name, most of the others I either made up or borrowed from others. We had Mad Monday, Teaching Tuesday, Spy Wednesday, Prayer Thursday, Holy Friday, and Spirit World Saturday. I really do think the boys grasp more than I realize during this week of teaching. They were even eager to do our “day” while we were camping.
Easter Sunday is full of fun traditions. The boys’ baskets are hidden as well as some eggs. This year Grandmama boiled our eggs for us (we like to use real eggs), but we got home so late from camping that the eggs were never colored…and the boys didn’t even care.
They all had to wait at the top of the stairs before coming down …
Then the first thing they have to find is their Easter Basket – they are not allowed to touch any eggs they might see.
Their baskets are always a treasure chest (or at least I think so!).
This year they did get some candy, a yo-yo, and a suncatcher craft but mostly they got fun churchy stuff – CTR ring, journal, temple picture, tie clip, scripture markers, etc.
Their favorite was the Book of Mormon action figures. Last year they all got good guys – this year they got the bad guys!
Oh, and they love getting eggs with money in them!
Once they’ve perused their basket treasures, they line up for the running of the eggs …
They had to leave some of the low ones for Bobby …
It’s hard work to find all those eggs.
It was General Conference Sunday as well as Easter this year. Several of my family members came over for lunch and a big egg hunt in the back yard (plastic this time). The boys loved that – there were probably 200 eggs scattered around. Bobby wasn’t as interested. He kept finding racquetball balls to put in his basket and then getting distracted by the neighbor’s dog. It’s all good though – he just likes being outside!
Uncle Tim brought the boys marshmallow shooters and that was a HUGE success. I handed over a new bag of marshmallows and outside they went (they were actually fine playing inside, but I thought that wasn’t such a good plan).
The uncles might have gotten a little into it …
The boys aren’t afraid to take them on either …
I couldn’t resist a little video of the fun. You can see it HERE.
No cute clothes Easter picture this year. But here is one of my favorites from our family photo shoot in February …
