Easter Saturday

We decided to do something different this year for Easter. Instead of celebrating the holiday for just one day, we did it throughout the week! I wanted our kids to understand the real reason why we celebrate Easter is Christ's ressurection but I wanted to make it fun just like the commercial side to Easter is fun. So, each night that we could we did something different to help our kids learn the Easter story. Sometimes it was just reading scriptures or telling a story, and a few times we would play a game centered around the scriptural Easter story. I do believe we were successful, mostly. But on saturday, we started the day with Easter baskets that the Easter Bunny had hid in the house. Once the kids found those and devoured a good portion of ther candy, off to Sprouts we went (a grocery store for those readers who are not from Arizona). The kids got to participate in an Egg Hunt and meet the Easter Bunny himself (he does have ears, they just fell over on his head. I wanted to fix it so bad)!

After the Egg Hunt we went to the park and played on the playground for a bit. Right next to the playground is the Chicago Cubs winter practice field and luckily for us, they were practicing! I think this was just one of their minor leagues, but still, very cool! Even cooler than that is one of the players tossed a ball to the kids when he got close enough to the fence to notice them. Rylee's sporting it in the picture below!

















That was our Saturday Easter. Sunday Easter pictures to follow.