The girls and I headed to my parents’ for a couple of days before Easter. Grandma had all kinds of Easter activities for the girls, which kept them busy the whole time.
The first night we dyed eggs. The youth center that my mom runs is a great place to do it. Messes are easier to clean up and there is lots of room. Dying eggs before Easter has been a tradition in my family since I was little, and it is something that they still love to do (even if my siblings are all grown up). I seem to be the only one who doesn’t get to excited about it. I’m sure it has something to do with my aversion to things that make big messes that could be hard to clean up.
Bentley was also excited about dying the eggs, but she just kept trying to drop them into and take them out of the dye. We tried to just let her watch, but she was always reaching for the dye so we found something else for her to do.
One of the most fun parts was watching my dad dye eggs. I don’t know if we have ever seen him do it before. He liked making them two colors and had a very steady hand for holding half the egg in one color then turning it and holding the other half in another color. It was funny how excited he was about it. My brother also had a good time taping his egg and getting it three different striped colors. It was obvious that he is an auto body repair person.
The next day was spent swinging and hunting for Easter eggs outside, the ones we had dyed.
Bentley can’t sit on the swing yet, so grandma helped her by holding her. Bria then thought she needed to push the swing.
Bentley enjoyed finding the eggs. I couldn’t get very good pictures of Bria because she was running around the yard looking for eggs.
We came back home Saturday morning, so that this morning we could be part of our church’s sunrise Easter service. We had church at 7:30 am this morning. In order to get the girls ready, we had to wake them up, which they were not happy about and continued to let us know that while we were at church. After the sunrise service, we had breakfast at church, and then had our regular Sunday school and church services. The girls were so crabby after Sunday school that D brought them back home. That concluded our Easter activities. I didn’t even make an Easter meal since we were going to be spending so much time at church this morning. The lazy afternoon was really nice.
We hope that all of you had a joyous Resurrection Day. The reason that we have hope in eternal life is in the fact that Jesus is Risen from the grave. His death alone could not save us, but because he was raised again we can be certain that we can receive eternal life by placing our faith in a living Savior.
As a side note: our cell phone service switched over to AT&T on Thursday and all the pictures above were taken with my new phone. The camera on the phone seems to work quite well, however, we are not so sure about the actual phone service yet. There seems to be some kinks that need to be worked out.
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