Easter Week 2013

We started off Easter week with Family Home Evening.  The kids love FHE.  This week we did the Easter story in eggs (condensed version b/c we were missing some of the eggs...they were from years past).  This allowed us to teach about the Resurrection and how that is the real we celebrate Easter. With that said, I still love any excuse to get the kids excited and plan a little get together.

Wednesday we had an Easter party.  It was supposed to be at a friends house, but one of their kids has the stomach bug so we volunteered the morning of to shift it to our place.  Our place is by no means large and not typically super clean, but I didn't want to have to cancel it.  I had time to sweep the floor and that was about it (I spent the morning getting food ready, clean up the kitchen after doing so, and pulling out some Easter decor).  We had 4 families come with a total of 10 kids.  After a potluck lunch, we did a quick craft with the kiddos that I put together.  We made jellybean necklaces.  They turned our cute, but definitely required some adult help.  We finished off the party with an Easter egg hunt Belgian style...meaning wrapped little chocolate eggs (no plastic filled eggs) scatter all over the backyard.  I had the oldest boy help me scatter them out, got the kids bundled up (sunny but cold weather), handed out paper bags to collect in and let them have at it.  When I went to see how many they missed, I only found 6.  Pretty good.  We had a fun time and I love seeing kids so happy.  It makes me want to keep doing parties for every holiday.  As an added bonus, here is where Kherington ended up after the party

Wednesday Kherington also came home from school with her art project filled with chocolate eggs.  Then Friday she came home with another little present.  Kind of cute.  Ryan also brought home some goodies from work...chocolate bunnies and a bag of high quality chocolate eggs.

Saturday Kherington helped me make a carrot cake.  Then in the evening as they were going to bed she started getting upset that the Easter Bunny might come in her room at night (same thing happened with Lucky). Ryan helped her make a note:

Sunday morning Kherington came running into our room so excited.  The bunny had left something in the front room that she needed to show us.  We all slowly trickled out.  I was last to join the crew and found Kherington and Kevin spreading their loot across the floor.  They were both so excited and couldn't wait to show me every little piece of candy/toy the Easter Bunny had left just for them.

We ended up being 30 minutes late to church thanks to some unsigned road closures, merged lanes, short lights and huge detour but still arrived in time for me to teach my class so not all bad.  After church we snacked on candy and leftovers so we decided to postpone our planned Easter Dinner to Monday (Easter Monday as it's called here).  The Ryan and the kids are watching a movie and I'm catching up the blog.  It's kind of nice to have a relaxing day.