Happy Easter!

It's been a busy weekend! We had the Primary Easter Activity saturday morning. I taught about the symbols of Passover and how it relates to Easter. Then the kids made flowers from pipe cleaners and paper muffin liners. Lunch was soup (Sakura did surprisingly well, though she was VERY wet afterwards.) Then was the hunt! It lasted about 10 minutes. Sakura was very cute. She wasn't really sure what to do, so I showed her that the eggs went in her little bag. After her bag was full (and my pockets too - making only about 6-7 eggs), the eggs were all gone. She saw other kids had eggs in their baskets and she began cheerfully doling out her eggs. What a sweetie! And she was rewarded for her good behavior later when the little boy sitting next to her gave her all his jelly beans (he called them "bad eggs" heehee.) Sakura LOVES jelly beans! I think we'll use them to teach her her colors.

After a nap, we went to some friends (Lindsays') for their "Easter Egg Bash." There's a donut eating contest (donuts on strings, no hands) and an egg fight (dye and name your egg and pit him/her against the other eggs in a championship fight.) It was fun.

Then we went back home where we had a seder (passover) dinner. The neighbors backed out at the last minute so we had more food than we needed, so we just ate the roast lamb and vegetables. (thanks Morrills and most of the Griners for coming!) We saved the matza-ball soup for lunch today and the plan is to have fish and honeycomb for dinner (Luke 24:42).

This morning Sakura got her goodies from Gabi and Tache (thank you! Chad loved the Zelda egg game) and got in a cute little dress for church. She did well in nursery (yay!) and we really felt the spirit in Primary today when Sis. Lindsay taught some Easter songs to the kids. It's been a very nice holiday, and we were lucky enough that Chad was off for all of it. (He starts on the night shift tonight though. Bleh.)