This year for Easter our family celebrated in several different ways. We started yesterday by making resurrection cookies. The igredients for the cookies each represent something from the Easter story, and after you mix them up you put them in the oven all night and tape it shut. In the morning, you come down to an "unlocked oven" (I took the tape off last night) and the cookies are hollow and symbolize the hollow tomb found on Easter morning.
The kids always get a basket of Easter goodies, we go to church (and it was a really nice service this year - great music, lots of flowers, and a good sermon), and we have a good Easter lunch. This year Richard made a great ham with a yummy glaze. We also had sweet potatoes and a wonderful spinach salad - truly the best salad I've had in a long time. For dessert I made a strawberry jello cake, put fresh strawberries and whipped cream on top, and put a few Easter sprinkles on it just for the kids. It was a nice light end to our lunch.
Our Easter egg hunt this year had to be inside because of all the rain we got last night, but the kids had a great time anyway -- 62 eggs for 2 kids.....who wouldn't have fun!?!?!?
We ended our celebration today by goig through the Resurrection Eggs that we bought the kids last year (a set of eggs, that once opened, reveal the entire story of Easter through scripture and tiny objects, and the last one is empty for the empty tomb.) The kids always like those.
Today, Jonathan was a Ninja at school for Storybook Character Day (we borrowed the costume from a friend, and he just loved it--and he didn't get it trouble today, either!). Then tonight, he was a blue Power Ranger, and Alyssa was a Caterpillar from the book, The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar (it was a costume that Erika wore when she was little). She loved her costume, and she got lots of complements because it was so unique. They got a ton of candy, but they pooped out on the second street and we were home by 8:00. Now they are enjoying candy and reading books - it was a great evening.
