Easter

Easter Sunday - probably the 50th take :)

Just thought I'd put some pictures from our Easter on here.  I put most of them on fb but just so we have them in here too.  We had a very nice Easter, even though kids didn't get much time off from school because they had to make up for the snow days.  So they only had Friday off but it was nice having them home and it was even better that only Emily and Aveah were here from the daycare kids.  It makes it so much more peaceful when it's just the 5 of them. :)  On Friday we colored boiled eggs, made a craft about Jesus's tomb and for snack we had "resurrection rolls".  I have seen people making them and this year I wanted to do it with the kids so that we can talk more about Jesus and real meaning of Easter.  Marshmallow represents Jesus, melted butter represents oils, cinnamon sugar represents the spices they put on his body.  Then we wrap Jesus in the crescent roll which represents white cloths and put him in the oven, or a tomb. :)  When the rolls come out of the oven after "3 days" you cut open the roll and Jesus is gone.  Kids loved it, even though the older ones knew right away that the marshmallow just melted.  They tasted good too so it was great.  If we had more time on Sunday morning I would make them for breakfast since that's the day Jesus was risen but it worked out good.  It was nice to spend time retelling the story with the kids and going over all the days before Jesus's death.

What made me pretty upset was that Anika and Emily came home on Thursday telling me there was a real Easter Bunny in their class, that he left candy and footprints and pieces of fur and stuff.  They really believed what the teachers did and I don't mind the school talking about the Easter bunny but making all the kids believe it's real is not right.  Especially kids like Emily and Anika are going to believe anything.  It was kind of the same thing as before Christmas there was a real gingerbread man coming to their class and it took me days to convince Anika that wasn't real.  So I had a talk with Ani about it and had to explain it's ok to pretend about the Easter bunny but we don't believe in it and it has nothing to do with what our Easter is about.  Even though she was a bit sad at first, she was excited about our little projects, cleaning the house, making Easter cupcakes and stuff and forgot all about it.

We usually get together with Ehren's family on Easter Sunday and kids have an egg hunt but this year Ingrid's and Seth's family couldn't come.  So we had Ehren's parents and Kjell and Jess over for lunch and did the egg hunt with just our 5 kids.  Kade is getting too cool for it now and he's been really wanting to hide the eggs this year so we let him do that.  It's nice seeing the transition from being excited to find the eggs to being excited to hide them.  There was no mention of an Easter bunny, kids know that it is us hiding the eggs but they still love it.  It was a bummer there was snow everywhere and so cold out, so we just did it inside this year.  It is a lot more fun to run around the yard looking for them.

So we had a very nice family Easter.  I was glad when Saturday came too because Ehren had to help with sound at church 3 nights in a row before that so the kids only saw him little bit in the morning each day.  So having him home on Saturday and Sunday was very nice.

 

Anika has her eyes closed on almost all the pictures

looking for eggs

dividing the treats they got :)