We had a pretty nice Easter over here. Last night both Jesse and I were gone in the evening, so we didn't get a chance to be as prepared as I would have liked- mostly the house was a mess. So I told the kids that they had to clean the living room before they were allowed to get into their Easter baskets. Graham woke up fairly early, and he never even noticed the basket on the table. I guess because the baskets had been out for a few days before hand. It took Nate a while to wake up this morning, and then even longer to find his basket. It was maybe 9:30 before they realized they were there.
So after the toys were all cleaned up, they dug into their baskets. Nate was really excited about the large chocolate bunny. He started into it right away. (Don't mind his seasonally challenged pjs.)
Graham was excited about his as well.
And it did not take him long to figure out how to unwrap it.
Nate was excited about the Peeps.
Whereas I did get this cute picture of Graham eating his, he was not so excited about it.
hop hop hop.
Once I cut them off this morning, they really kind of forgot about their baskets full of candy. They still have not really dug into them too much. I guess that's a good thing.
As for what happened after the baskets, well, it was a pretty quiet day. It's rare that we stay home on a holiday, since we have two sets of family in the area. However, a few years ago, I made the rule that we are always going to spend General Conference at our own home. It is just too stressful for me to have to make my children behave for 8 hours of church, and have other people who want to pay attention. So we stay home. It happened that Easter fell on General Conference this year, so that meant that we were staying home for Easter this year. So I made a roast for dinner, and we just had our own little Easter celebration here by ourselves.
I will say though, as I was putting Graham to bed tonight, he asked if we were going to church. Did anyone else feel a little weird not going to church on Easter?
And then I have another question- for those of you with small children- what do you do about the Easter bunny? Is it just like Santa? Or do you push him to the side, and right from when they're little you let them know that mommy made the Easter baskets? I found myself doing the Easter bunny this year, but well, I'm not sure I want to. So what are you thoughts, what do you do. I want to hear.
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No Easter Bunny here. It's ridiculous, in my opinion. But I never figured that other people may have their kids believe in it, so Benjamin went around telling all the Hansen counsins there's no such thing! I think Angie was mad at me. I didn't really care, because hello! The Easter Bunny? Seriously?
We do the Easter Bunny here, but I agree with Erin, it's ridiculous! Our bunny comes with the baskets and stays all day. When we look at him, he freezes like a stuffed animal. Crazy, right? Then, at night, Daddy takes him back to the forrest to be with his family. As a kid, I could totally picture my dad having a conversation with the bunny sitting in the front seat. My reason for keeping the crazy alive? All holidays deserve a little magic. The bunny does not bring much -- one small toy, and a little candy. This year it was a chocolate bunny and a new Pez dispenser.
Santa, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy (in our case a tooth fairy mouse) leave only small things. Even at Christmas, Santa puts chocolates in the stockings and one gift under the tree.
That darn preschool tries to teach them to put out reindeer food for reindeer and carrots for the Easter bunny...
I had my Easter dinner this year at El Pollo Loco on my way to work.
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