Easter Fun!

Finally, here are our pictures from all the Easter fun... The slideshow starts with Thomas' school egg hunt and party, followed by our church playgroup/guild egg hunt, the Easter Walk at church and then Easter Sunday. The Easter Walk was really great. We were led through a series of scenes from the last days of Jesus' life with the kids participating. You'll see Thomas waving his palm, following Jesus on the donkey. We also witnessed the Last Supper, the events in the Garden of Gethsemene (sp?), the trial by Pilate...and ending by the tomb where the stone was rolled away. This will be a tradition for us for sure and I'm inviting everyone to join us next year! I didn't get good pictures, but we made Resurrection Cookies on Saturday night. I must have done something wrong but I will definitely do this again next year.

I sure do wish I could video the memories in my mind from this Easter. One of my favorite memories is Thomas' expression when he tasted the vinegar while we were making the cookies...he thought it was going to be sweet! And when I explained that we were leaving the cookies in the oven and we sealed the oven with tape just like Jesus' tomb was sealed, he was wide-eyed and so serious. We did the Resurrection Eggs at our church playgroup egg hunt and afterward Thomas would say that every empty egg he found was a message from God :) Finally, as you will see in the pictures Hudson caught on to egg hunting, after finding one egg at the church egg hunt to finding many eggs at home on Easter Sunday.

It was a wonderful Easter!