Easter 2013

This week was spring break. It has been a busy week for our family with lots to get done, a family vacation to the coast, and of course Easter. While I had planned to blog in chronological order and blog today about our vacation and talk about Easter later, given that today is Easter it just does not seen right to not talk about it. That being said, check back in a week or so for our vacation wrap up.

I feel like Easter really caught me off guard this year. We were out of town until Friday evening. That just left Saturday to get back on top of everything that got neglected while we were gone and get prepared for Easter.

Our Easter celebration began on Saturday morning with the city Easter egg hunt. There were lots of people there and the hunt was over very quickly. They also had pictures with the Easter bunny. While Merrick was a good sport about it, it was honestly the freakiest looking Easter bunny I have ever seen. For me the highlight of the experience was at the start of the hunt, Merrick ran off to get an egg. When he finally got one he held it up, yelled "I got one", and started to run back to us. Jeremy eventually had to run out and help him so that he got more than one.


Ok, so speaking of helping Merrick with an Easter egg hunt, it is time to tell a long time family secret. Two years ago at Easter time we went to Jeremy's aunt's house for dinner and an Easter egg hunt. Their family tradition is to hide a few eggs with money in them. Jensen was tempted by the money and wanted to participate in the hunt, but was told he was too old by his aunts. He may have been a little bitter and started to text Jeremy about it. Jeremy told him that if he could not win, he could help Merrick win. Jensen went out while they were hiding the eggs, watched where they hid the $10 egg (which happened to be a giant golden egg), and texted Jeremy. When the hunt started we just walked Merrick over to the golden egg and acted shocked when we found out there was $10 inside. We knew everyone would be ticked if they knew we cheated so none of us never said a word...until now. We just could not let the story be forgotten over time and hopefully it has been long enough now that no one will be too upset hearing it.

Anyway, back to this Easter, today the golden egg made an appearance first thing this morning with a note from the Easter bunny. The note said it was full of extra eggs for a family Easter egg hunt and that the Easter bunny had hidden all of our baskets and we would need to go find them. Merrick found them pretty quickly behind the chair in the baby's room and was very excited to find not only lots of candy, but also a new puzzle and hat. He even got to have his fist experience with peeps.


After baskets we got ready for church, which was obviously the most important thing we did today. After church we had our family egg hunt, a big family dinner and an extended family egg hunt with eggs full of puzzle pieces for puzzles of pictures of Jesus.


The day is now winding to a close and I am exhausted, but I could not have asked for a better Easter celebration.