Anticipating Easter...

"What is the real purpose behind the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, and Santa Claus?  They seem like greater steps toward faith, and imagination; each with a payoff.  Like cognitive training exercises.        -Chuck Palahniuk

Oh my goodness, it is March already?  Easter is just around the corner.  It comes early this year, so in anticipation of Easter,  I enlisted my grandkids to help me make an egg tree.  My inspiration came from an egg tree that was a featured news story which was about Easter traditions.  It seems the Kraft family from Saalfeld, Germany have been decorating this tree with Easter eggs for 40 years.

Volker Kraft hanging his eggs

I cannot image stringing all those eggs, and hanging them, but isn't it beautiful?  I wonder how they get them down without tangling all the strings.  My tree did not have nearly that many eggs.  I only had 96, and it was sure a pain to string them...well, I actually used fishing line.  I was sure glad I only had 96 eggs and not 9200.  The twins loved decorating our Easter tree. This is my first year to do an Easter tree.  Time will tell if it becomes a tradition...besides, I have to figure out how to store the eggs without tangling the fishing line.

Tate...don't you love the mittens?

Sawyer...and the orange gloves?

All done.  The tree is beautiful...

now we can play!

whoops...photo time with PawPaw...

Now with Mimi

Here's the tree.  At least we did not have to have a ladder to string our eggs.

After we decorated the tree, we had to go to the park for a celebration of sorts...called playing.

It was an all round wonderful day.  Be Blessed.

Easter...with the twins...

"He's Alive..."

When I first heard this song years ago, I thought it powerful...and I still think it is equally powerful today.



Warren and I are in NC babysitting the twins.  After Luke picked us up at the airport, we went to get baskets for the boys.  I brought filled eggs in my suitcase economizing on my wardrobe, so everything would fit.  Of all the things in their baskets, the Elmo DVD, and Mr. Potato Heads were the favorite items...well, the candy too, but that doesn't count.

PawPaw became the Potato Head expert...

whoa, lots of parts...and a trap door.  

It wasn't long before PawPaw was fixing the trap door that came off with the help of over eager little hands...

The glasses became a particular favorite Potato head accessory...and not necessarily for Mr. Potato head...

Tate...better vision now????

The Easter egg hunt...

Tate...

Sawyer...

Oh boy...Eggs...

and Easter basket hats...

Egg eyes...

As if that was not enough egg hunting, their church had another egg hunt...but the eggs were all in plain sight...all 10,000 of them.  All the eggs were empty.  The kids were to take all the eggs they gathered to a table where they would be exchanged for a bag of goodies...candy, pencils, coupons for kids meals at various restaurants.  What a deal!

A lot of eggs...

Tate...so cute in his Easter duds...

Sawyer's sack of eggs is almost as big as he is...

Hmmm.  These make good ears...

I had to put this picture in.  This is PawPaw watching a bicycle race on the computer.  Tate and Sawyer liked it as much as he did.  They watched a long time...Tour de France here we come...

Hope you had a wonderful Easter... we did.  Empty egg...empty tomb...He is Risen...Indeed!

Be Blessed!