Easter 2012

We began our Easter fun this year by coloring eggs.  We only do 6, which I guess is weird, but I can use up 6 hard boiled eggs a lot easier than 12.  We bought a dye kit that contained a clear wax crayon so that we could make secret designs which would be revealed after the eggs were dyed.  You know what?  It is REALLY hard to write with an invisible crayon, especially on the rounded surface of an egg.  Oh well, the kids thought it was fun.

The rest of the eggs were plastic.  We filled them with candy and Easter messages, then Chad, Heather, Jeannnine and I hid them around the yard.  When we were half-way through hiding the eggs I turned and saw three little excited faces pressed up against the boy's bedroom window.  Sneaky little darlings!  We gave Grant a head start, as he has the shortest legs, and then let them go nuts.  I really need to count the eggs before we take them out cuz I found two the next day.

When we came back inside, the kids had to open all the plastic eggs and find the folded pieces of paper.  Grant was as excited to find paper in his eggs as he was to find candy!  "Yeah!!  Paper!!" he'd say.

Once we found all the paper we put the phrases in order to reveal the Easter message: "He is risen!  He is risen!  Tell it out with joyful voice.  He has burst his three days' prison; let the whole wide earth rejoice.  Death is conquered; man is free.  Christ has won the victory."  I am so grateful for that knowledge!