Your Easter...

[Desert Arabian]

Ma and I will be at the Kentucky Horse Park on Easter. We usually make a huge Easter dinner, dye eggs, etc- but we are away from home this Easter so we are doing something different.

[weiner_teddy]

This year we are going to my Grandmother's for Easter, we have a dinner at her house with family. Then we usually have an Easter egg hunt for the littler kids and we paint Easter eggs.

[NoahsMommy]

I love Easter....its actually one of the few holidays I enjoy celebrating. (I don't find a lot of meaning in a lot of the others, like Valentines Day, I celebrate that every day wtih my hubby. Same with Mother's Day, etc.)

So anyway, I'm not Catholic but I've been participating in the tradition of Lent. I've given up all soda (except for Sprite for my tummy, which I normally don't drink) since then.

We'll go to church with my in-laws on Sunday morning and then to brunch. My father-in-law plays the bongos at church, so we'll meet him at the last service. I always enjoy the Easter service at their church, they put on a different "play" and each year is a new rendition. I'm really looking forward to that.

Then, after our brunch, we'll go to my parent's house and eat dinner with them. That part I'm not all that thrilled about. To them, its just another day and I would much rather spend a day that means something to me with those that feel the same way. Oh well....we'll most likely do the easter bunny thing there.

I hope everyone has a very nice Easter!

[Miss Meow]

We aren't religious so we don't have a traditional celebration, but we have a nice dinner and spend time together. I really enjoy Easter, it's more meaningful as Noah's Mommy has said.

Shane's parents are arriving this afternoon for a holiday (they live on the other side of the country in Perth) so it'll be great showing them around and catching up (well, for a few days anyway!)

And it's my birthday on Easter Sunday this year, so a double celebration!

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

I love Easter too!!!

Easter Sunday we go to church.... our Easter services are ALWAYS AMAZING!!! (well every service we have is awesome)
We don't have a play or anything but .... It is just such a meaningful holiday!!

THEN!!..... every year we go to my grandmaw's house after church to take Easter pictures in our Easter church clothes..... my grandmother has some pretty flower bushes and we always take the pics in front of them!...

NOw that I'm married we then go to Eric's mom's house and we eat dinner and they have an Easter egg hunt for the kiddies..... last year we all hunted the eggs cause Mathew was too young to hunt and it wouldn't be any fun for Melanie to hunt all by herself... even 72 year old Uncle Ray hunted for the eggs too!

[babolaypo65]

Normally for me it's just another day. This year though, my aunt is having us over for dinner. She has been so great about trying to continue family traditions, and create new ones since my parents passed away. It's really nice. My uncle is flying in, and my sister, her kids, and I will be there for dinner. This is the third or fourth time my aunt has done this sort of thing. Really nice.

[carole]

Thank you all for your easter stories, i have so enjoyed reading them all, for me its just holidays, its the school holidays here right now, 2 weeks of them, and so my husband will beable to be part of them this time with the easter break and our anzac day,, so that will be nice, we will probably be painting that fence again, and tidying things up, and maybe go somewhere nice to waingaro hot springs for a swim and hydroslide and picnic hopefully,short trip away,
I am not religious either so just enjoy the break, and shopping, all the sales are on for the long weekend .
My daughter will get lots of yummie easter eggs from family, and we might even indulge in some ourselves.
well everyone enjoy your easter whatever you decide to do. cheers

[RubyMutt]

Usually my extended family gets together and has a big Easter dinner. However, the family has had a bit too many "feuds" this year... so we're staying at our own homes. So my boyfriend, parents, great-aunt, Ruby, and myself are going to pack a picnic lunch and spend the day at the dog park. I'm looking foward to it

I hope everyone has a great Easter!

[Aspen and Misty]

This is my first Easter Spent in this house and also my first easter spent with my parents seprated. So we have no tradiotions.

But tomrrow me and Julian will be visiting my school and talking to the littel kids about careing for a rabbit and how they shouldnt NOT get one for easter and that if they do want a rabbit they should wait till after easter to get one from the ASPCA. We will be going on and on about if your family is not ready for a dog then they are not ready for a bunny and stuff like that. I will speak for about a half hour or why you shouldn't get a bunny as a spur of the moment pet and what easter is really about. I also will be doing the same thing at my church.

I will probly wake up and watch tv liek any normal sunday day. Then go to church and talk to the kids and Julian will spend a whole Church Service in a pew with me listeing to our Pastor talk. So Julian is now a Holy bunny, yipee


Ash

[Vio&Juni]

Originally posted by Cisco's Mom
Ok, Vio&Juni could you please explain to me what a red egg is?

We boil eggs in a special red solution, and they are red (inside not). We give each other eggs and sweets.

[Jessica12345]

well we dye easter eggs and have dinner with the our family and my aunts family, but other than that, nothing big.

[Dakota's Mommy]

When I was little we used to wake up to get Easter Baskets! Then we would get around to go to church that morning. After church, we'd either go straight home to change or straight to Grandma's and change there for our big family meal (at Grandma's house).

[Logan]

Originally posted by Aspen and Misty
This is my first Easter Spent in this house and also my first easter spent with my parents seprated. So we have no tradiotions.

But tomrrow me and Julian will be visiting my school and talking to the littel kids about careing for a rabbit and how they shouldnt NOT get one for easter and that if they do want a rabbit they should wait till after easter to get one from the ASPCA. We will be going on and on about if your family is not ready for a dog then they are not ready for a bunny and stuff like that. I will speak for about a half hour or why you shouldn't get a bunny as a spur of the moment pet and what easter is really about. I also will be doing the same thing at my church.

I will probly wake up and watch tv liek any normal sunday day. Then go to church and talk to the kids and Julian will spend a whole Church Service in a pew with me listeing to our Pastor talk. So Julian is now a Holy bunny, yipee

What a social bunny, Julian is!! He gets to go to church??? How wonderful!!!

I hope you will have a very happy Easter, Ash, and perhaps you can start a new tradition this year!!!!

[NoahsMommy]

How fun Ash! That is an awesome thing to do....

We've extended our Easter to Friday. I want to go to Good Friday church as well.

BUT!! Guess what? Wolflady is celebrating Easter down here with her family so we'll try to meet up as well! YAY!!!!

[Cataholic]

I love Easter, for what it stands for, and what it doesn't. I have Easter baskets for some neice and nephews, and some other friends..and Lillycat! We are having my youngest brother over, with prolly one of his kids (the other is with mommy at church), then, a dinner with mom. I don't care if it is about religion or not, just getting together with loved ones makes the holiday.