Easter

I love Easter. Like Christmas- it helps me refocus on the purpose of this life and the immense gift our elder brother so freely gave us. This year I purchased a book by Janet and Joe Hales, A Christ Centered Easter. Every day from Palm Sunday until Easter Sunday we had a lesson on what Jesus was doing the last week of his earthly life. It changed the spirit of the week entirely. To add to the spirit of Easter weekend we attended the sealing of my husband's baby sister. I have never seen two people so thrilled to be married. It was wonderful!

Here is evidence that one of my dear sisters-in-law and I have many talents....which explains the picture of my sons.

This is one of our completely un-spiritual family traditions- the Easter egg hunt!!

My dad is the Grand Poo-bah of Easter egg hunts. He is the planner and overseer. It gives him great glee to find eggs throughout the summer that we don't discover during this Easter melee. The hunt is a two part activity. The kids ransack the backyard first and then the adults trample each other, small children, and a few flowers in the front yard. My # 3 sister cheats a bit, but...I'm faster.

After Easter baskets, torturous Easter dress photos, church (which was wonderful), and LOADS of chocolate, we had an early birthday party for #5 and # 3...planned by my nephew. Buckaboo, my mom, made variegated Easter egg colored angel food cakes. A pinnacle of the party was the black Spiderman costume that the afore mentioned nephew picked out especially for #3. He (#3)hasn't taken it off since, except to shower. He might even be wearing it under his clothes to school. He's been dressing pretty quick in the morning since we came home.