A Little More Egg Fun

The weekend before Easter, our church had their annual pancake breakfast and Easter egg hunt. This was our first year attending so we were pretty excited! Until we woke up that morning to thunderstorms. Boo. So the party was inside, which is still fun for the kids but I really love it when our egg hunts are outside.

The pancake guy, Chris Cakes is the company, he was so fun! He flipped those pancakes up into the air and then he toss them up for you to catch on your plate! Luckily he asked each person about that ;) For the kids, he got really close and pretty much tossed it onto their plate. Smart guy :) Still, there were some misses and that was part of the fun. Of course, I didn't even think about pulling my camera out to capture that. I was too worried about catching my pancake ;)

After we had our fill of pancakes, we headed to face painting.

 Since they had to hide the eggs inside, they put a huge tarp down, covered it with colored grass and hid all the eggs in it. It was a pretty clever idea! Of course, they used plastic eggs. That could have been a real mess ;)

They took the kids in by age group and replenished the eggs between groups. Another clever idea!

 For Nick's group they had to line up facing the wall while someone said, "On your mark, get set, go!" I couldn't resist a picture :)

This is the only non-blurry picture I have of him scooping up eggs. He was like lightning!

It was fun to get together which our church family. 

Easter-2011

Our Easter celebration started with baking :)

Then church, which was amazing AND we we sang some of my very favorite songs! Bonus!

Then home for more traditions.

The Easter bunny has been very creative over the years. For a while, he hid little gifts and there were pictures/clues to guide the very little kids to the gift. Then, as the kids got older, there were rhymes in eggs to guide them. Lately, however, the Easter bunny has taken to fitting all the gifts into their baskets and setting up an elaborate treasure hunt!

The hunt begins upon entering the house:

 The clues had them all over the house! There were times when I heard breathlessness!

 The final clue was a word puzzle :)

 And they were rewarded for their efforts!

 There was lots of laughing and running. They had so. much. fun. We have a hard-working Easter bunny ;)

 My mom and dad joined us for church and all the after stuff :)

 A quick one of all of us:

 We had another guest this year too. Jon joined us! He and Kristen came right after church so they didn't miss any of our fun.

I think he's used to my camera ;)

 Isn't that a good picture?

We had a wonderful day with family! Even though some of our traditions are....frivolous...we are all very aware of the reason we celebrate this very important day. Resurrection Day.

"You are stronger, You are stronger, 

sin is broken, 

You have saved me. 

It is written, Christ is risen. 

Jesus, You are Lord of all!"

Coloring Eggs

We kicked off our Easter preparations with one of our favorite traditions...egg coloring! We had everything ready to go Friday afternoon but we wanted to wait until Kristen got home which basically means that I heard "When are we coloring eggs??" 542 times! When she finally got home, the party started!

 After all the eggs were colored and the last batch drying, there had to be some tickling :)

It was a fun way to start our Easter weekend! Hope everyone else had a great weekend!