Traditionally the kids have gone to their grandparents for egg hunts. Initially this was where they got their Easter candy and, if they were lucky, a few coins tucked inside eggs from Grandma and Grandpa Loveridge. Over the years that has evolved into an "Everybody bring your eggs and we'll do a free for all in Grandma's back yard."
Call us crazy, but it seemed like a good thing to do following the funeral and luncheon. Only problem was that by the time we helped put away all the tables and chairs at the church and got home to change, the free for all was basically over. It was warm. The chocolate candies were melting, and the kids had been waiting, like, forever. So they went ahead and did it without us.
So when we arrived with about $100 worth of candy Dan had picked up the day before, I just started ripping open bags and tossing the candy out into the sea of children and adults milling about the back yard. Then the guys got into it, and before long the candy was gone. It was admittedly kind of a crazy wild hunt, but it looked like the kids had a wonderful time with all their extended cousins and second cousins.
I think my grandkids have adopted a new special friend. Hooray for wonderful adults in the lives of little ones! We love having Ann around. In fact, Bill's girls have decided they definitely want to be babysat by her (something to do with a really fun room upstairs in her new home).
EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2014
Sean flew out earlier on Sunday to be home with his own family for Easter. He ended up going in for surgery the next day to remove his kidney stone. We were just so grateful he was able to make it out without problems. Wish the entire family could have come, but it was so good to have Sean at least make it out.
We got to spend Easter dinner at Tonya's this year. It was just them, Brent, Heather, Dan, and I - a rather small gathering after all the busy family things for the week before.
We had a traditional Easter dinner of ham and my potato salad, rolls fresh from the oven, etc. It was a great meal and afterwards we went outside while Tonya's boys had their own egg hunt.
Eric has it down to an art this year. Luke still needs a little help. He's happy with one - who cares about all the other candies and eggs decorating that lawn.
I usually don't post multiple photos of the same thing, but without words I think the next series tells a cute story. Without words, Luke is very good at letting his Mom know exactly what he'd like:
(Oops, I sat the camera down to go help fill Luke's basket)
Dan was able to get Luke to do one thing I'm still having problems getting him to do. Here's proof: he can go to other people without totally becoming hysterical.
But my favorite photo from the day is this one below (after Photoshop). For me it talks about the real gift of Easter with which we should fill our baskets, and that is the Light of Christ in our lives.
I love my family so much. It was so good to have their support and share their love through the funeral. It was good to celebrate Easter with them, too. The message of Christ's resurrection and the knowledge that life is eternal sustained us then and continues to sustain us today with a sweet peace and joy that I cannot explain. It was good to have both events share the same weekend.
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It is hard to lose loved ones at a holiday and I kept hoping Grandpa's funeral wasn't going to run right in to Eater but I bet he loved having so many of his family members together to celebrate life. Look at that legacy of love left behind!
My kids will be so sad if they are the last ones to get a sleepover in Grandma Ann's new upstairs fun room, but I understand why the kids gravitate to her. She is an amazing grandma, or surrogate grandma in some cases. Hopefully we can get all these crazy kids together while we are in Utah, and sneak a moment for the adults to catch up as well.
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