Easter is one of my favorite holidays! Dressing my kids in bright colors after long winters full of all shades of brown outside, warm days and cool nights that put you in the mood to be outside, our Easter play at church that I look forward to every year, and time to celebrate Jesus' Resurrection. Lots of great things all rolled into one fun holiday...not sure when it happened but somewhere along the line us parents got roped into buying presents for Easter?!
Overboard.
I loved dying eggs with our kids the other night..
Watching them get so excited about the colors was fun.
Today we went on an Easter egg hunt at Purple Park with friends and it was fun. Well, for the first 10 minutes it was fun...then, it was kinda crazy...I watched as more than a hundred kids were herded into a pack, their parents and grandparents standing behind them in full egg retrieving fan club support and roped off with caution tape was an enormous field full of colored plastic eggs. Easter Egg Hunt 1pm. That is what the sign said...what it should have said was "come, torture your children with taunting plastic eggs full of candy that they have to stare at for 20+ minutes past the "start" time so that the people running late can get some too!" No really, it was fun. Just a bit hard to contain kids from colorful eggs filled with candy for 20+ minutes. I tried to count the number of "false starts" I witnessed, it was cute. Givem' their candy man! If it starts at 1, start at 1, or maybe 1:05 or 1:10 if you really must...ANYTHING past 1:10, you come hold my children and chase them off the field of forbidden eggs until the late people come, K? K! Ok, enough of the rant. Sorry.
Anyway, it really was fun watching the kids. Piper was clueless...not sure what we were doing or why we were there...
Temptation.
Blake was PUMPED. We stretched, we planned our method of getting at least a few eggs before they were picked over.
Everyone came away with a basket with some new goodies in it.
Always a good time with these Conway boys...
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| Sweet, Tristan |
When we got home tonight, there were a few things on Pinterest I had planned to do with the kids. First, we made resurrection rolls! We read John 19 and basically you wrap a marshmallow in cinnamon sugar and put it inside a crescent roll and bake it. The crescent is suppose to represent the wrap that Jesus' body was put in. Explaining this to Blake went about how I expected..."Blake, this is like how they wrapped Jesus' body after he died for us on the cross". Blake: "in food?" HAHA!
He is SO analytical, the kid cracks me up! Guess I better enjoy this whole Easter Bunny and Santa thing while I can...he probably won't let me do it for long!
A few peep experiments later, it was hammer time! It has become a tradition that I bring Dirt Dessert for Easter. I think I was about 14 when this started, now it is just expected. For the past two years, Blake has helped me crush the Oreos. This time, we handed the mallet to Piper to have a bit of fun too...
Kids were tired. We had a great day and even got some kite flying in!
Easter bunny time!
Now, in our house we have your standard eggs on the toilet, etc. BUT, here are a few spots the Easter bunny found that made me take a minute to grin and appreciate my two awesome kids and the stages they are in...
HAPPY EASTER!!
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