Friday, April 29, 2011

Easter

Our girls seemed to really enjoy our new traditional Easter egg hunt. This year, each girl had 19 eggs to find. There was candy in some of the eggs, notes in others, and some were empty. Chris was home sick from church so I gave him the responsibility of hiding the eggs and the girls' baskets.



He came up with a clever way by creating a clue in Morse code. He copied a sheet containing the Morse code, cut it in four pieces, and stuffed four eggs with those papers. One of their eggs contained a clue of where to look next: Matthew 28, Luke 24, Mark 16. In their own scriptures, he had placed the final clue of where they could find each of their baskets. Amy's basket was outside in the BBQ, Misha's was in the shower downstairs, and Kristen's was in the cupboard by the computer. I thought it was kind of funny that there was a marked difference in the height at which I normally hide the eggs and the height at which Chris hid the eggs this year. There were stools and mini-trampolines involved in the retrieving.







After dinner, we opened our scriptures to read the scriptural passages Christopher had marked. It was a wonderful way to focus on the Savior.