Easter 2010

Here are some pictures from Easter this year. I think that this has been the best and busiest Easter ever. Participating in the Passion Play really kept us moving and got us into the true spirit of the holiday- although we did have fun hunting eggs and doing all of the other fun holiday things, too.

On Easter morning the kids woke up to find that the Easter Bunny had filled their baskets with all kinds of goodies. Both kids received candy, DVDs (buy 1 get 1 at Toys R Us), and a few other things. The Easter Bunny also hid eggs in their rooms for the kids to find. They really liked searching for the eggs. After breakfast, we put on our new clothes and went to Sunday school and church. Like always, the cross in front of our church was decorated with greenery and fresh flowers to honor the occasion.

Following the church service, we went to Granny Buie's house to eat lunch and hunt eggs. The egg hunts get more and more interesting every year as the number of "hunters" gets larger. This year the eggs were hid in two sections- one section for Ava and Olivia and the other section for Claire, Owen, and Natalie. The "baby" section had eggs hidden in obvious places like under a leaf or behind a pinecone. The eggs were much more difficult to find in the Ava/Olivia section. All of the kids had a ball hunting the eggs and were excited to find out that some of them contained coins. It was a very nice Easter, and I think it will be interesting to see what happens next year when Audrey is able to hunt eggs, too. We are definitely going to have to invest in some more plastic eggs.