Happy Easter!

This 1st collage was a playgroup Easter egg hunt.  We took 21 filled eggs.  We came home with 9.  I think we need to work on hunting for eggs with O & W.  Owen was too timid to go picking up the eggs on his own.  Weston was content with the 1st egg he picked up, discovering candy inside.  I tried to get them to look for more eggs, but Weston didn't really understand what to do.  Owen was just too slow.  He did end up with 6 eggs and Weston got 3 (and I think Owen put one in Weston's bucket).  Better work on a more speedy hunt to get more goodies!

The Easter bunny came on Saturday this year (allowing us to focus more on the true meaning of Easter on Sunday).  The boys were caught completely off guard - they slept in!  I reminded them that the Easter bunny can come any time Easter weekend... N & J got new light up shoes and a little game.  O & W got backpacks.  They all got coloring books, a movie, juice boxes, and candy.  The big eggs had snacks in them - chips, fruit snacks, cookies, and more candy.  

On Sunday, we had muffins and eggs for breakfast.  We had a spirit filled day at church - great Easter messages and I got to sing with the choir.  (The added benefit of that was not having to wrestle with the boys in the pew to keep them quiet - Alex got to do that by himself).  The choir sang 5 songs, and I think we sounded pretty good.  I always wonder if we have angels helping us out during the performance.  We never sound as good during our practices.  One of our songs was "O Divine Redeemer" - not a easy song, but I think we pulled it off.      

We colored Easter eggs in the afternoon, chatted with family on Skype, had potatoes & ham for dinner, and cheesecake & ice cream for dessert.  We also had a little egg hunt.  The eggs had scripture references inside, which we looked up and read to talk about Jesus' resurrection and Atonement.  

  

We also watched this short video "Jesus is Risen":

There are more of these great Bible videos here.  The boys really seem to enjoy these.  It's the perfect length for a family night devotional.