Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Easter Celebration

IMG_7018Each Easter, I’m always wondering what we can do to celebrate Easter.

Yes, we do all the typical things.

And this year, tried a few new things too.

 

 

Of course, we wear our Sunday’s Best to church, and immediately change, we changed.  So sorry folks…no pics :)  Just a naked baby, I mean the Easter Bunny.

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And dye Easter Eggs.

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My favorite…Mr. Humpty Dumpty.

And the Easter Bunny delivers hidden Easter baskets full of goodies.

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Of all the many goodies, these cheap Dora pens that had stampers/bubbles were the star of the show.  Thank you, Target clearance.  I mean Easter Bunny! 

And go on Easter Egg Hunts. With the entire family.  It’s better that way!!!

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Brooke was hilarious.  Nothing was coming between her and her candy. I mean nothing!!!

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And the winner, who spotted the Golden Egg, won a fun surprise – a remote control helicopter :)

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But surely Easter is more than this. And we try to teach the true meaning…

  • by doing a picture storyboard of Easter along our walls.
  • teaching the kids about the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ using the cute resurrection eggs.  Or even better,  having your kids teach it.   
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  • and baking “resurrection rolls” as we tell the Easter story.

And this  year, we tried something new and planted a mini-resurrection garden.   Tanner re-told the story using our our pretend Jesus, Mary, and Donkey from our Noah’s Ark set.  And the best part is seeing the grass grow…and seeing these two kids hug each other.  

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

April’s Daily Musings

Our life captured by the measure of what we do one day, one moment at a time.   It’s the small things in life…captured.

Just discovered by new favorite app, Collect App (free on my iPhone)!  I first heard about it here…and thought…I can totally do this!  One picture a day, right a small caption, and a reminder for me if I forgot!  Great way to record all of life's small moments…all from the comfort of my iPhone.

Except don’t let your kids delete it…accidentally.  Or all your little stored photos/captions will be gone.  And you’ll want to cry!

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