Happy Easter

What a fun time of celebrating Easter we had this year. Our pastor challenged us on Palm Sunday to really embrace Holy Week and spend time throughout the whole week being joyful and thankful to Christ for his death and resurrection. I spent a lot of time with Hunter throughout the week reading the Easter story from his children's Bible and doing activities that would help him begin to understand why this is the most important time of celebration and remembrance for those who love God. Each night at supper we would open up two resurrection eggs that each told different parts of the Easter story. Then Saturday morning, we made Resurrection rolls for breakfast (of which I forgot to take pictures), beginning what I hope will become a Schaetzle family traditon. They were actually pretty good too. For those of you who don't know what they are, you wrap a marshmallow inside a crescent roll, telling how,after He died on the cross, Jesus's body was wrapped in linen (white clothes) and sealed inside the tomb.
Then you bake them and when you bite into them, the inside is empty, just like the tomb was empty because Jesus rose from the dead. Hunter really enjoyed making them with me and eating them too.

Of course Hunter also enjoyed getting an Easter basket and having a big lunch at Grandma and Grandpa Schaetzle's. He also got to hunt eggs with cousin Rylee. That is especially fun because Grandpa fills the eggs with coins from his spare change bank. The weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed a relaxing time visiting and shooting hoops out in the sunshine.

Very excited that he got two packs of gum in his Easter basket

All dressed up and ready to head out the door for church

Finding easter eggs with cousin Rylee (Grandpa hid them inside the house before he left for church that morning because we weren't quite sure how the weather would turn out that day.)

Getting out the treasure - money!

Easter Egg Hunt

Today we went to the easter egg hunt in our little town. Hunter had never been to it before so we thought we would try it out, and Grandma S. came with us. He loved running around the park to find the eggs which he was then able to turn back in for a quarter each. He thought it was so cool that he had enough eggs to get a dollar bill. He said, "Look, I got a bill. Now I can pay my bills just like Dad." He may be getting the two uses for that word confused, but it made for a cute conversation.

Waiting for the hunt to begin

Last minute instructions from Grandma S.

Running for those eggs

Showing off the treasure

Cashing in the eggs for money.