Easter Weekend 2011

It has been forever and a day since I blogged about anything but hey---it's finally Springtime. Time for new beginnings & the celebration of new life through the most amazing event in all of human history---the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ!  I do love Easter and all the "traditions" that goes with it.  Church on Easter Sunday (okay we go to church every Sunday but Easter is super special), new Easter outfits, dyeing Easter eggs & decorating our Easter Bunny cake.  We did all of those fun things this weekend and the boys had a blast with each event.  Here they are posing in their very bright, new Easter ensembles. 

They are only cooperating here because I told them they couldn't have their Easter baskets until I got a decent picture of them.  Mean Mommy.  Oh well, I'll probably have to result to many other tricks and bribery to get pictures of them in the future so I'm fine with it.

On Saturday we decorated our Easter Bunny cake~

Normally our bunny is just one color--either white or chocolate,  but this year my Mom (who started this tradition for us when I was little) suggested that these poor children should each have the flavor they wanted.  Thus we have a chocolate, vanilla and coconut bunny.  Everyone was happy even though this crazy looking rabbit cake was not going to make the cover of Southern Living.

The next fun event on the list was dyeing Easter eggs.  

I love all the bright colors!  Of course, we should have boiled at least a dozen more eggs to dye but I didn't want to be eating egg salad for the next month.

Sunday evening we had Easter dinner and also did our egg hunt.  This picture makes me laugh because Josh was so enthusiastic about the hunt this year (notice his tongue hanging out of his mouth).

Here is Connor counting all the eggs he found. 

Each of the boys found a special egg that had a $1 bill in it.  Here Connor is explaining to Daddy how the guy on the front of the dollar looks like Elvis Presley. That made me crack up--Connor has never even seen a picture of Elvis.

It was a fantastic weekend!  

We had lots of fun with all the Easter traditions but most of all in celebrating the real reason behind this wonderful season--Jesus Christ rising from the grave to conquer death and offer us eternal life!  Thank you Lord for this amazing gift!!