Easter weekend

Easter weekend events included:

• tie dying 2 dozen easter eggs (which actually allowed the best opportunity to talk to our children about why we celebrate Easter.  They understand the concept of eggs representing birth (as they came up with birds, ducks and dinosaurs all hatch from eggs).  It wasn't too far a stretch for them to get that Christ offers us a way to be born again from our mistakes and from death
• annual visit from the Easter Bunny (who didn't bring the magic wand Santa forgot to bring Madeline, or the "lots of packs" of peeps both girls wanted).  The Easter bunny, like Pepsi (http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15772138), is providing more healthful baskets for our children.  (GO PEPSI!!!).  The kids favorite was the fresh strawberries and blueberries.
• Easter egg roll.  Our favorite sledding hill is now our official egg roll hill.  Max got lots of exercise, chasing every egg he rolled all the way to the bottom.  Madeline had a few eggs that just wouldn't crack, no matter whether she threw them backwards over her head down the hill, or straight up to the sky first, or as hard as she could down the hill.  Ella discovered the best way to get eggs to crack was to stomp on them when no one was looking and then throw them down the hill.  We were amazed that every one of her eggs cracked, until we saw her secret.

• Turkey dinner.  Ryan cooked the turkey and gravy, I did the rolls and stuffing.  Everything was done on time.  We forgot to cook the asparagus, or bring the pineapple to the table.  We decided Easter meal was much less stressful if we both had only two meal items to be responsible for.  
• A really fun weekend together.