Easter Fun

Picture this.......The time is 6:00 am. Since church doesn't start until 1:00 pm, mom and dad try to take advantage of sleeping in after a hard week of work, children, school, fights, appointments, and whatever else you can think of that keeps us busy, busy throughout the week. We are deep, deep in sleep, dreaming of peaceful times and a land with no worries. ( Ya right, like that is reality) All of the sudden, 3 very noisy children run and tackle the peaceful dreams away. That is how it started this beautiful Easter day. The kids came screaming in this morning, yelling. "the Easter Bunny came, the Easter Bunny came". I never heard such noise. Well, they were very impatient little children and wouldn't let me go back to that dreamland that I love so much. So, I lazily got out of bed and down the stairs I came. That is how Easter started in the Lamps home today.

It took Jeremy longer to get down stairs. Here is Emilee waiting and waiting until dad came down.

In our home, the Easter Bunny provides an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids each year. Each child is provided with specific colors on their bag of what colored eggs they look for. The Easter Bunny is very fair. This is how he makes sure that each one of the kids gets the same amount of eggs. The eggs sometimes have candy, prizes, and sometimes even money inside them. Here, Hunter is opening his eggs to see what treasures the Easter Bunny has left for him.

Here is Megan and her Easter basket. She got a password journal in her basket. Emilee got a Tinkerbell craft and Tinkerbell bracelet, and Hunter got a Spiderman web shooter. Of course they all got that great Easter candy. Let's just hope they keep it away from mom and dad.

The kids are looking at the treasures from their egg hunt. This year there was no money, but each one had a watch inside one of their eggs.

We are ready for church now. Every year growing up, my mom always bought me an Easter dress. Even when I got home from my mission, she still took me out to buy a new dress for Easter. Of course, I do the same with my kids. Here they are in their new Easter clothes. I think they look so fantastic. Megan really wanted purple shoes with her dress. We hunted, and hunted for them. I can't believe we found some. We must have looked at all the shoes stores in Huntsville and do you know where we ended up finding them? Children's Place of all places. Go figure.

Emilee asked to wear my pearls. These were my grandmother's real pearls, so she always feels really special when I let her wear them.

The watch Hunter found in his Easter egg was a Star Wars watch. He couldn't wait to go to church and show his primary class his new watch. Usually when it is time to go to church, Hunter is not always enthused. Today was the exact opposite. About an hour in a half before we had to go, he kept saying, "Is it time. I can't wait. We have to go now." He was so excited to show his new watch to his friends.

We had a wonderful Easter Day. We hope you all had a great Easter Day as well.