So, how did we celebrate Easter? Well, first we went to a candy hunt at my parents' house on the week before Easter. We (the adults) pretty much littered the yard with candy and let the kids go to town. Then we went to an Easter egg hunt in our neighborhood (at my brother Brian's house) on the Saturday morning before Easter. Everybody brought a dozen plastic eggs filled with toys and candy for each of the kids. And finally, we went to Wayne's parents' house on Sunday for an Easter egg hunt for actual dyed eggs. The Easter bunny never even makes it to our house, but I don't think the kids really care, considering that their baskets are always overflowing with candy anyway.
Our Easter celebration wasn't really about all the candy, though. We got to watch LDS General Conference on t.v. The kids were actually good. Daniel watched most of it, and Benjamin colored and played quietly during most of it. We had some fun conference packets that we printed out for them to work on. I really enjoyed learning from our Church leaders and hearing their testimonies of Jesus Christ.
Another part of our Easter celebration was a Passover dinner. On the Thursday before Easter, Wayne and I went to a Passover Seder at BYU with my brother Brandon and his wife Jacqueline. We also attended it last year. It was very educational and culturally enlightening. If you have the opportunity to attend a Passover Seder, I recommend going. If you are Christian, you can at least appreciate that attending a Passover dinner was one of the last acts of Jesus Christ before his atonement. You might also understand more about why bread and wine (or water in the LDS church) are used for the sacrament. And hopefully you will learn more about Jewish history and culture.
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The Easter bunny doesn't come to your house? That's not such a bad idea... I'd love to go to a real Jewish Passover one year. How much is it? Jewish culture interests me. Probably watched Yentl one too many times:)
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