This Weekend..Easter anyone?

I recently read on a blog about a family that has an Easter basket hunt. The kids wake up to an empty Easter basket outside their bedroom door and have to hunt for the items to fill it. (I think The Bunny leaves hints or maybe an item count to help out. ) I thought that sounded like a fun idea, & maybe it would help to make the actual day a little more special for her. Sorry I can't remember where I got the idea from!

 

We would normally go out but the weather is rubbish this year so just a day in eating chocolate and hot cross buns for us

 

We have plans to go to a fancy Easter brunch. The girls love it because there is a "chocolate fountain"

 

Our church has a huge Easter egg hunt and all kinds of games etc.... so that's what we will be doing on Saturday. Sunday is church for us but they do the Easter fun and games on Saturday so Sunday will just be focused on what Easter is truly about for us. My kids have, in the past, taken turns hiding the eggs and finding them on Sunday in between morning and evening services so I guess they will do that again if the weather permits.

 

We aren't religious, but we still do the Easter bunny part. The girls wake up to their baskets on the table and the bunny leaves eggs for Daddy to hide. Normally, we go to my parents, but my mom has to work this year, so we'll probably cook at home too.

 

Oh yeah! Lots going on for Easter for our family this weekend. We are "church-folks" so a lot of time spent at church, but we also do the easter egg hunt stuff too. Friday we get the day off of work, so that's awesome and then we'll do Good Friday service at church that night. Our church also does a cross walk to re-enact Jesus' day on Good Friday and him carrying the cross. We've never done that part before, but I think it would send the message home a lot more and I think my kids would get a lot out of that.

Saturday we don't have any plans and my husband is going to be gone for the day, so I think we might see if there's a local egg hunt anywhere. Sunday I'll be at church by 6:00 a.m! YIKES! I sing in the choir and we're singing for all three services, 6:30, 8:00 and 10:30 with a breakfast thing snuck in the middle somewhere.

After all that we'll go to my in-laws for a big lunch and the easter egg hunt for the kids. I'll be needing a nap for sure by the end of that!

 

Tronesia,
We always go to the in-laws house on Easter Sunday after I hide Eggs on Saturday night, but this is the first year they are not here in the same state. Bianca is all excited to see if the Easter bunny is coming to our house, but I don't know.

 

I've been so out of it that I haven't done any planning... I did buy their outfits... and I'm needing to talk to Dalis about maybe getting a family photo for me (LOL, that you're reading this here first ) We'll go to church but not sure what service we'll try to get to... the one that we normally go to is the crazy busy one, so I don't know LOL... we'll have an egg hunt which reminds me I need to make their baskets yet LOL... normally we get together with family but we're on our own this year, so I have nooooo clue what we're doing yet... maybe we'll plan brunch with Dalis and family LOL (still giggling that you're reading this here before I talk to you)

 

My mom drove down to pick up DD this afternoon while I was at work. I'll be going up Friday afternoon after my half day at work (holla!), and then we'll have my parents' neighborhood's egg hunt in the morning and Easter dinner with my family + birthday cake for dessert to celebrate my dad's bday last week on Saturday. There's a church just down the road from my parents' house that I love, so I will probably try to go to their early service so I can find a seat and parking spot on Sunday morning, and then we'll drive back to our house.

I have an Easter dress and a more casual Easter outfit for DD, but it's been so unseasonably cold (and we are headed north) that I don't know that she'll be able to wear them! Boohiss. Doesn't Mother Nature know I need color-coordinated seasonally appropriate clothing in the photos I take so they match my scrap kits?!

We're going to be dying eggs sometime (my mom might do that with her before I get there, I suppose), and my mom bought this cool kit where you put the whole egg into this plastic egg-shaped container with the ink in it so you can just swish the egg around in there and cut way down on mess. My mom also has an Easter basket already for DD, and since my nephew will be there, too, I'm sure she will have an egg hunt with plastic eggs filled with candy at her house sometime during the weekend.

I don't really care abt the Easter Bunny, but my mom is way into it, so I let her do her thing when we celebrate with them. I make sure I talk to DD abt the religious side of things, and it all works out in the end.

 

We are Christmas and Easter church attendees (embarassing but true) so that is one the agenda and then we are heading to Chincoteague for a week since it's Spring Break. Our house has no heat (typical beach house) which would normally be ok this time of year but it's been unseasonably cold here in VA this year. Oh well...I would rather freeze at the beach then freeze at home We will pack lots of extra blankets and make the best of it!

 

We'll be in Missouri at my mom and dad's this year. Easter service at the little country church I grew up in and big family dinner after.

I'm excited to be back for Easter but I do love our Easters here at home. Our church has a sunrise service on the beach (Oak Street beach on Lake Michigan). It's such a peaceful way to spend Easter morning. We've never attended a regular Easter service at our church, but with the lines to go into service down Michigan Ave and around the side streets, I've just never wanted to attempt it.

 

no big plans other than church, pictures and the usual back yard egg hunt. i think i'll roast a chicken, too.... not sure about that though, after seeing the baby chicks at the store today (i want to chickens!!!!!!).

 

TOTALLY GIGGLING HERE TOO!!! We could do brunch. You guys are more than welcome to come home for brunch on Sunday and that way I can take a picture too and vice-versa. You see I can do this too. {giggling here}. We are going for a 10am egg hunt in Naperville South (95th and 59th) around Necqua HS.

 

we don't usually do anything too big, but I LOVE making the kids Easter baskets and I usually hide some eggs out in the front yard for them to find on Easter morning. This year (since I have 3 kids that will hunt) I am going to hide them each their own COLOR of eggs to find.....
Abby-pink, Peyont-Green, Ben-Blue so that way it is fair and my daughter doesn't end up finding them all LOL@! I convinced my oldest DD (20) to make her boyfriend an Easter basket and we went and picked out all the stuff for it last night at Wal-Mart...it was super fun!

 

Nothing really planned here except dinner with my parents, maybe?!?!?! Haven't planned much and will go by the Dollar Store today to grab some candy for the grandkids.....other than that....pretty low-key considering it'll be another rainy, soggy Sunday here. AUGH!

 

I don't celebrate in a religious way... but we do easter eggs every year, I set up a hunt around the house, Taylor gets a big Easter basket - and this year, unfortunately - I HAVE TO COOK!

 

We are having Heather and her family for brunch. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!

 

We are heading to my parent's house for the weekend. The boys have been there since Saturday....nice break for me!!! We will decorate eggs on Saturday, go to church on Sunday and then go over to my brother's house for lunch/dinner....then head home since the boys have school on Monday.

I didn't buy Easter outfits this year...I am still wearing a boot on my surgery foot, so unfortunately, I will probably be wearing yoga pants!! LOL