Josh's work had Easter festivities the week before Easter. This is our second year to participate, and I am very impressed with how well organized it is. They start with coloring pages while you wait for everyone to arrive. (Jeremiah had a little help.)
The Easter Bunny did a meet-and-greet.
Jeremiah wasn't impressed.
We got a great photo with the Easter Bunny! (That has become a tradition now. See last year's post.)
Micah didn't think it was that bad.
It happened to be snowing outside, so the Easter Bunny hid the eggs inside. (Ignore the blurry images. They're action shots!)
The nursing home in our town hosted a community Easter egg hunt on Good Friday. They have a golden egg that gets you a new bicycle if you find it. Maybe next year.
They have age categories; Jeremiah was in the 0-3 group. The teacher/mom in me had to tell a couple kids they were in the wrong group and needed to wait for their turn.
Easter morning, the Easter Bunny left eggs for Jeremiah from his room to his Easter basket. Each egg had a cereal puff in it. (Someone should tell the Easter Bunny to put the basket closer to his room next year. Or use less eggs. It took him forever. And church was 45 minutes earlier than usual. We were on a tight schedule.)
He loved that the Easter Bunny brought him his favorite cookies.
He also got a kick out of this wind up bath toy.
I made Resurrection Rolls for breakfast. I've made them for years, but this was the first time I got to use them to teach the Easter story.
At church, they take a photo with all the kids. Jeremiah "held on" to Micah the whole time.
Jeremiah used his new watercolors to paint an Easter egg picture.
He also made a cotton ball Easter bunny. For days, he would point at the googly eyes and say, "Eye," every time we were near it.
We had Easter dinner with some friends. They had all the supplies ready to dye Easter eggs when we got there. Jeremiah loved it!
We also had a friend take a family photo. Best one we've had of the four of us!
Another great Easter
"The earliest Jewish polemic presupposes the historicity of the empty tomb. In other words, there was nobody who was claiming that the tomb still contained Jesus' body. The question always was, 'What happened to the body?' The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!" -William Lane Craig, Ph.D., D.Th. as quoted in The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
"On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus." -Luke 24:1-3
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