Easter

Yes, I know that Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, was awhile ago but I am a bit slow on the blogging of late so I am just now getting around to trying to catch up. What we have tried to do in the past is to give the children one large "basket" on the first day of spring and also to dye our eggs that day as well. We feel that most of those kinds of things pertain more to Spring than to Resurrection Sunday. But this year we were traveling on the first day of spring and then once we got home it was time to celebrate B#1's birthday so we did end up doing our "spring" things on Easter.

This year DH and I decided to get the children a trampoline which they have asked for for years now. It took alot of convincing for dad to go for it but we felt it would be something the whole family could use for a long time to come. We did a scavenger hunt for them to find certain letters which would lead them to the hall closet where each child had a Reeses Peanut butter egg along with a very personalized clue that would lead each of them to another letter. They had to put those letters together to spell the hiding place of the gift(trampoline) which ended up being across the road where our spring water comes from. I think they were all pleased with the gift.

The two teams trying to figure out their clues.

B#1 got to be one of the first ones on it.

B#5 & B#6 just love it and spend alot of their free time out there.

Here we are making Resurrection rolls the night before Easter. They are really simple to make and very tasty, just make sure you cook them long enough to get the full effect. You take marshmallows and roll them in melted butter(to illustrate the oil that annointed Jesus) and then in cinnamon and sugar(to illustrate the spices that they used to prepare Jesus for burial), then you wrap the marshmallow with a crescent roll being sure to pinch the edges closed as well as possible. The crescent rolls are supposed to be the tomb where they lay Jesus body. You cook them for about 10 minutes or so. Once they are cooked and cooled some you eat them and when you eat them you get a surprise....the marshmallow(Jesus) isn't there any more! He is risen! You can Google resurrection rolls is you are interested in trying these and would like more details than I have provided.

Hope you had a blessed Resurrectin Sunday...and remember it's not about bunnies at all:)