Easter Celebration

The weekend after we returned from England was Easter. That Saturday our church had an Easter Eggstravaganza, a huge Easter egg hunt. Basically, you go eat cookies, see the Easter story acted out and then let your kids loose on 6000 candy-filled eggs scattered all over the church inside and out! Our kids think it's the bomb so we brave the crowds every year. I mean, what's better than getting to eat a sugar cookie at 10 in the morning?







































































Bethany headed outside with the big kids to hunt eggs (hence, no pictures of her in action), Joel took Anna and Katherine on their adventure and I got to catch Micah scavenging high, okay, mostly low, to get as many eggs as he could pick up and throw at his bag.




































































































So, then there was the ubiquitous "photo spot" where you could gather with bunny ears and flowers and make a futile attempt to get a shot of all the children smiling. Well, believe it or not, we sort of succeeded.















Until a friend said, "Why don't you two get in there and let me get a shot of the whole family!" Yeah right.



In a few weeks, we have to have a portrait taken for our church's directory (yeah, I guess it would be good for the teaching pastor's family to be included), so wish us luck. I figure it will either be the perfect portrait or stinking hilarious, either of which will be okay with me.