Yesterday we hosted Easter dinner for our group of friends. There were 10 adults and 3 ankle biters…although two of the babies slept most of the time. With the scrumptious food coming in a close second, I think the egg hunt took the (bunny topped cup)cake. Shortly after we finished eating, one of our friends noticed our next door neighbor “hiding” eggs in his yard for his three boys. Noah and I then announced that we too had planned an egg hunt in our backyard.  Thankfully the snow (we received about 1″ the night before) melted before I hid the eggs.  An egg hunt would not be as much fun if all one had to do was follow footprints to the hiding spots.  Worst case I would have had to run around the yard in circles to cover my tracks…but then again, Lava would sniff each egg after I hid it, so then I would have had to come up with a way to cover her tracks as well.  Regardless, the snow melted – back to the story.

I think it was Melina that responded with an enthusiastic, “Are you serious?!?!”. I believe I also overheard someone saying they have never participated in an egg hunt…but it might have been in reference to one of the babies. I don’t know. Stanley noticed an egg on part of the fence and yelled, “I see one! It’s mine, no one else can claim it!”  I think my neighbor got a kick out of watching a bunch of 20 and 30 year olds run around trying to collect the most eggs. His eldest son, Luke, was also trying to be helpful by pointing out a couple eggs that we hid by the fence that divided our two yards. Clifton came out victorious with nine eggs, including the last illusive one that sent everyone scrambling (ha!) again. It was determined that whoever hosts next year must also have an egg hunt. The eggs from this year were to be passed down the line, but Lava decided she needed an egg hunt while we were at work today and decimated most of them. Oh well, I’m sure Wal-Mart will carry ample supply next year.

We did take pictures and I will get them posted whenever I download them off the camera…probably this weekend.

From the book of Matthew:

28:59Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

62The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63″Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

65″Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

29:5The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

From John:

20:1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

16Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).

17Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

22And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”