Easter

Happy Easter to all!

I tried to explain the concept of Easter to Ava and Carter earlier this week. I don't think that telling them that Jesus died because they are naughty was the right tact to take. Ava seems a little traumatized that someone died because of her misdeeds. I'm going to need to work on my explanation.

We started our Easter Sunday off with a basket hunt. Apparently the bunny needs a little work since all 3 baskets were easily found. Ellie's was even stealthily hung from a hanger in the coat closet and it was the second place she looked!

The treats in the basket were well received despite there only being a few things in each.
Reasons:
1) the Easter Bunny quickly detemined that filling four baskets is not cheap. Hope he/she warns Santa so he can start preparing early!
2) The bunny waited until the day before Easter to purchase basket items and did so with #1 and #2 along for the trip. Talk about a sneaky bunny! The cart went along the Easter treat aisle and since the bunny had on a big, baggy sweatshirt, the goodies were quickly grabbed and hid in the nest of fabric between arm and body. When #1 and #2 were not looking, the items were quickly dumped in the cart and hid under the frozen veggies. The bunny is so tricky that when #1 asked if she could get a little animal toy in that section, the bunny asked which was her favorite and then said "no". #1 placed it back on the shelf and walked away. The bunny snatched said animal up and added it to the arm pile!

After spending 30 seconds hunting for baskets, we went to church where Carter proceeded to humor the family in front of us. The child has no volume control and no filter. He was able to see the large cross in front of the church with Jesus on it. This bothered him as he couldn't understand why Jesus wanted to be on the cross. Jake told him that Jesus was napping. I couldn't catch all that was being said in the exchange between father and son but I'm guessing it was amusing based on the movement of the shoulders from the woman in front of us. I heard lots of "why" questions and I'm sure that despite her children being grown, she was able to relate!

Following church, we enjoyed a delicious dinner with Papa, Grandma Debbie, Amanda, and Tony. The bunny hid baskets at Grandma's too so the kids got to find those. We followed up dinner with a big nap at home and spent the rest of the beautiful evening outside.

All in all a great day!