Easter Break-Good Friday

For Easter, the kids and Cory got to have Easter break.  The kids had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off of school and Cory got the Friday and the Monday off of work.  So we had lots of days to have lots of Easter fun!  It was also the first time for us to be away from family on Easter, so we got to decide what we would do for the holiday weekend. 

Originally, I had wanted to go on a little trip down to Esperance and see the beach once more before the winter set in.  But financially it didn't work out for us right now.  I'm glad too, because it gave us the chance to focus on each part of the important meaning of Easter.  So since the girls had no school on Friday, we decided to celebrate Good Friday.  We woke up and we talked about what happened on Good Friday and why it is called Good Friday.  We watched a little movie about the trials and the crucifixion.  I was so amazed at how well my girls grasped the concepts and just desired to learn more.  Ava kept asking over and over again to watch the movie with Jesus hanging on the clothes line.  (Love her!)  So we watch the movie a few times throughout the day.  We talked about how what Jesus did for us was so good and that is why it is called good Friday. 

We also had some fun!  We made toilet paper roll bunnies and colored eggs on Good Friday.


Here is Lily with the toilet paper roll bunnies.

 The girls seriously had so much fun playing with these all day after we made them!  It was so fun to see them getting along so well and being entertained by toilet paper rolls!  With kids, simplicity is best!

And here is our egg dying fun!

On Pinterest I saw that you can bake the eggs instead of boiling them.  So I decided to try this method out because I hate to admit it but I am lousy at hard boiling an egg.  I know it should be like the easiest thing to do, but I really cannot get it right!  My yokes are always runny, or I crack the eggs or something.  So baking them worked much better for me, but if you're good at boiling an egg, I would just stick to that, because they were very hard to peel and they didn't smell less sulfury like the blog claimed they would. 

Here are all the kids ready to dye eggs.  Lily kept relating dying eggs to Jesus dying on that day.  I liked that she was remembering Him, even in our "fun" Easter activities. 

Unfortunately, Will was being too much of a nuisance, so we waited till nap time to actually dye the eggs.  It would have been disastrous to include him.  Maybe next year, mate! 

I was a little worried about them not turning out very well since the eggs were brown.  But I actually really like the shades of color that we got. 

Didn't they turn out nice?  It kind of fits our autumn Easter instead of a spring one.  :)

So after the eggs were completed we decided to have a little friendly competition with a nose egg roll race.  The name says it all you have to roll the egg to the finish line with your nose, this is actually harder than it looks and when I raced Ava, I didn't even have to let her win, she really just did! 

So here are a few photos of the races. 

It was Cory vs. Lily first.  Here they are at the starting line. 

 Ava was the officiator. 

 And they were off. 

Here is a video of the end of the race. 

It was close, but Lily came out victorious. 

Then it was me vs. Ava.  Ava was really fast, but since she is just such a little sweet heart, when she was almost to the finish line she said, mom I'll come back to help you.  She is too sweet!  I, of course, told her to hurry and go win so I could quit this nonsense. 

 So she did, here she is crossing the finish line. 

And then there was Will.  After we did the races he wanted to do them over and over.  He kept motioning me over to the fridge, I'd open it, he would grab two eggs, one for me and one for him, then he would go over to the carpet set down the egg and wait for me to say go, and then he would pretend to eat it.  He is hilarious. 

Here is a video of Will "egg racing"

And the grand prize for the winners was a giant chocolate egg.  Here they are with the prize, gee. they look happy! :)

It was a pretty good Good Friday!  And in the words of Lily, it was the best day ever!