Easter Activities

We've been gearing up for Easter at church- and that means lots of activities.  On Palm Sunday, the kiddos participated in the service by walking around during the opening hymn waving palm branches.  Later that evening, the children's choir gave their Easter performance- which consisted of several traditional songs (This Little Light of Mine, When the Saints Go Marching In, etc). We have been practicing these songs every morning during our drive to school, so Owen and Olivia were ready.  They did a good job.

 Later in the week, the kids participated in the church Easter egg hunt.  Since Olivia is in Kindergarten now, she got to hunt with the "big" kids.  Owen stayed in the Pre-K and under area.  The church moved the egg hunt to a Wednesday night this year, and found that this increased the turnout for the event.  There were a lot of "eggcited" kids- more than we expected.  We ended up having to do some last minute re-distributing of the goody bags, but we were happy to do so.  Having more kids than expected is a good problem to have.  Once all of the eggs were hidden, the kids were positioned in their designated areas.  We said "go", and those sweeties took off.  They didn't stop until every egg was found- and some of them kept going even after the last egg was found.  Owen and Olivia both found a decent amount of eggs and had a lot of fun doing so.  At the end of the night, all of the children were rewarded with a huge bag of goodies.