I love traditions, and Easter is one of those holidays where we have a few fun traditions. I always buy the kids matching Sunday outfits. I'm sure they will hate this tradition in a few years, but for now they think it's fun. They loved that they matched the baby. Another traditon is Easter baskets with lots of candy, and a stuffed animal instead of a chocolate bunny. This year they got Webkins for thier stuffed animal. Corynn got a skunk, because she is a little "stinker." Dallin got a lion because I thought it was cute, just like him. Masen got a bunny rattle in his basket.
Another fun tradition we have is an Easter egg hunt. Usually we ask the Easter bunny to come on Friday night so we can do the egg hunt and baskets on Saturday morning. I like to keep the commercial side and the spiritual side of Easter seperate. This year though, it was raining on Saturday morning, so instead the Easter bunny came while we were at church on Sunday. It was such a sunny beautiful Hawaiian day, we did the egg hunt in the back yard. We have a tradition of having each child find one special Golden Egg that has money in it. In the beginning the Golden Egg had a quarter in, and over the years it has increased to $5. The kids know that the Golden Egg is usually hard to find, and sometimes they need clues. The only clue I would give them this year is that they needed to be VERY careful when they found the Golden Egg. Dallin wasn't being so careful when he found it and nearly got tangled in this huge spider's web.
Thankfuly, I was watching him, and yelled from across the yard that he needed to watch out. Once he saw the spider he wasn't so sure the Golden Egg was worth the risk :) After some deliberation he walked around to the other side of the bush (even though it was in our neighbors yard), and was able to snag the egg from behind. He was one determined kid.
Here is Corynn and Dallin proudly showing off their Golden Eggs.
Here is me and Masen watching all the fun.
Another fun tradition we have is an Easter egg hunt. Usually we ask the Easter bunny to come on Friday night so we can do the egg hunt and baskets on Saturday morning. I like to keep the commercial side and the spiritual side of Easter seperate. This year though, it was raining on Saturday morning, so instead the Easter bunny came while we were at church on Sunday. It was such a sunny beautiful Hawaiian day, we did the egg hunt in the back yard. We have a tradition of having each child find one special Golden Egg that has money in it. In the beginning the Golden Egg had a quarter in, and over the years it has increased to $5. The kids know that the Golden Egg is usually hard to find, and sometimes they need clues. The only clue I would give them this year is that they needed to be VERY careful when they found the Golden Egg. Dallin wasn't being so careful when he found it and nearly got tangled in this huge spider's web.
Here is Corynn and Dallin proudly showing off their Golden Eggs. 
2 comments:
that is one ugly spider! Dallin is definitely brave. I don't like spiders....
Looks like you all had a wonderful time. There is a really fun community Easter Egg Hunt at the Gunsmoke Ranch by BYU-H. They hide plastic eggs and real eggs and certain eggs are worth $. They have golden eggs worth $5 too. You will have to go one year just for the experience. Kaydon has never forgotten that his experience there.
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