Easter

Easter is here and with it the start of Spring festivities. We did the egg thing yesterday with one of Beth's friends. It still brings back great memories of sitting at the wooden kitchen table at 489 (house where I grew up) trying to dip my egg and hold it perfectly so I could get the perfectly blended mix (three colors with the third being the combination of the two that lines up in the middle). Our kids are mostly at the age of dumping them in the dye and pulling them out 2 seconds later. Stickers are then applied and they're on to the next one. You can go through an amazing amount of eggs this way. Fortunately I like to eat hard boiled eggs, because they piled up quickly. We did do the basic Paas kit although I browsed the store and encountered many deluxe new egg tricks you can do with strange label applications. We'll have to try those another year.

Easter day consisted of the ritual race down the stairs to look for baskets. Carol and I tried to talk about the more important Easter events, but it's a tough battle. The girls always look for bunny tracks in the snow. Lydia visited us 2 years ago and ever since then the Easter Bunny has left tracks that the kids search for. They were there this year much to the kids delight.

Anyway, we made it through the sugar high (and low) and off to church.

Carol made a fabulous Easter dinner with ham, artichokes and blueberry cobbler. Delicious! We all gobbled it up and rolled the kids upstairs (picture Violet, the girl who became swollen like a blueberry in Willy Wonka).

Carol and I did feel a little better about the whole day when we asked about the true meaning of Easter before dinner. Beth and Isabel both gave great accounts of the last days of Christ. Isabel read a poem she got in Primary and Beth wrote a story about Jesus and Easter. Here are a few quotes (original spelling and punctuation included...I'm pretty sure I didn't know what a colon was until junior high).

Easter is not about candy eggs or bunny's. It's about Jesus's reserection. the story is: their were bad guys who did not like Jesus so they took him to Pilot. Pilot siad Jesus is not hurting us. But the bad guy's would keep beging. So finily pilot siad "OK you may crusify Jesus." the bad guy's shouted "hurray". and hanged him on a cross for three days then layed his body in a tomb. People came to see jesus. But in three days an angel came and removed the rock and Jesus came out. he was liveing! everyone came. and thats the true mening of easter.

And so it is.

Happy Easter!!!

More photos here.