Easter Day 2010

Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Easter with eggs.  Well, the other day I came across a little girls explanation as to why…”it must be because eggs are a symbol for life. We hide the eggs like Jesus was hidden from us in the tomb by death. When we find him, we receive a wonderful gift of grace when we find the egg (life) we get a present. It's supposes to help the kids understand.”  I hope that one day my kids are explaining this wonderful explanation to their kids.

Easter Day 2010 at the Schneider home was a wonderful day.  The kids and I woke up, got dressed and headed to church.  Kayla sat with me in “big” church since all Sunday school classes were canceled.  I loved having her there with me.  It reminded me of my childhood.  Sitting there next to my Memaw, drawing on offering envelops and trying to sing the songs with the choir.

After church, we headed home to see if the Easter bunny had arrived.  WOW! 50+ eggs were in are front yard and two large baskets were waiting for the kids.  You should have seen Christian and Kayla’s faces.  They could not get out of the car fast enough.  Jon and the kids ran around searching for the eggs.  Kayla picked up as many eggs as she could and waited to open them until she got inside.  Christian did not care about waiting.  I think he finally made it inside with a little less then half the chocolate that he found.  Thank goodness  the Easter Bunny hid money in half the eggs and candy in the rest.  Otherwise, Christian would have had a chocolate overload.  Kayla on the other hand got so excited at how much money she got and could care less about the candy. 

After counting the money and putting it in the piggy banks, Jon made us  lunch and then it was nap time.  After naps, I decided to take the little ones to San Gabriel Creative Playscape.  They had a blast.  We played hide-n-seek and ran around until we were ALL exhausted.

Overall, we had a great Easter Day.  I hope everyone had a blessed Easter Day.