Easter Celebration

Right now we are sitting on the floor, looking at all the candy the kids got. I told Aidan he could choose one candy to eat. He can't decide. It has been 20 minutes! He has Twix, Peeps, jelly beans, marshmallow things, Skittles, Reeses, etc, etc, etc... Too many good things for a little boy to choose from!
I love holidays. I hate candy. Mostly because that's all the kids will eat. Not that I get many vegetables in them anyway, but now it is worthless to even try.
Well, we did it. We got up at seven and headed to a open spot to watch the sunrise. Supposedly, sunrise was at 7:25. We waited and waited, and finally at 7:40, the boys were done, so we went home. As soon as we got in, Scott walked out, and there were the first rays of the sun. So we missed the real sunrise. But it was still realy pretty. And the kids didn't care too much. We had a nice little chat about Easter, new days, resurrection, spring, etc. We ate orange rolls and the kids thought it was fun. That is what matters!
We had a lovely basket and egg hunt yesterday (I found a gold egg that I hid that was empty--and we talked about the tomb being empty, etc). We then went to grandma's and had another egg hunt (thus all the candy in our home—she is very generous in her candy sharing). We colored eggs. And of course 5 minutes into the activities our video tape ran out. But, we have photos!
Today we went to a neighbors for dinner, and then to Scott’s parents for dinner (we’ll are stuffed), and then to visit the gravesite of Scott’s grandfather. Weston has been asking to, and we have been talking about death and resurrection so much, we thought it would be fitting. I actually taught Weston’s primary class today (nine 5 year olds trying to sit through 45 minutes???? The lesson only lasted about 10 minutes; we had a lot of time to color…). In the lesson I showed a photo of Grandpa and Weston got to talk about him and how he will resurrect someday. He is such a sensitive sweet boy.