Celebrating Easter

This Easter we extended our holiday over two weekends... Here is the story of how we celebrated both the true meaning of Easter and the "fun" side too...

Last weekend we went to the small town of New Prague for the annual all city Easter Egg Hunt...  

Here is a picture of everyone waiting for the starting whistle...

Here we are patiently waiting for the go ahead... We were standing right in front of the "Toddler Zone" where young children were supposed to have the opportunity to get eggs... Unfortunately there was not a lot of parent supervision so the big kids gobbled up the eggs in the toddler zone about 1 second after the whistle blew... S & S got 2 eggs each :(  I'm pretty sure I was more upset about this than they were...

After the egg hunt the boys got to hold a bunny... Shaeffer's bunny was a little too wiggly so he ended up just sitting next to it...

This morning the boys woke up in full anticipation of the arrival of the Easter Bunny.  He wasn't here when they awoke, but he left this note instructing the boys to go outside and find some eggs and baskets he had hidden for them...  Fortunately he was shedding so we were able to follow the fur from his tail down the sidewalk to the hidden eggs...  

Shaeffer was very interested in finding the eggs... He had an intense strategy.  

It was called "THE NO LOOK DROP" strategy... I think you'll pick up on it if you look at the next three pictures in sequence...  

Sutton is much more of a thinker so his strategy was at a much different pace.  He studied each egg with contemplation...  

In the end the boys found tons of Easter Eggs filled with "Annie's Chocolate Bunny Crackers" as well as two Easter baskets filled with non edible treats (tennis rackets, tennis balls, books, sunglasses and puzzles...)  

After the egg and basket hunt we came inside and made Easter Cross sun catchers for our teachers at church...  Sutton calls the cross "The Steeple" (because the cross is at the top of the steeple at church) and if you ask him what the steeple means he says "The steeple reminds me of Jesus"...  That is what he told his teachers when he gave them their gifts, so cute!  

We spent the rest of the morning enjoying food and conversation with Granny and our very close friends Tammy, Brian, Haddon and Brady... The boys were so funny at that table talking in their own special language about all sorts of silly things.... We took short naps and headed off to church where we celebrated the true meaning of Easter.  We hope you had a marvelous day and feel as fresh and as loved as we do... REJOICE!    Happy Easter....