March 28, 2005

Easter in Israel

On the Friday before Easter, there was an Easter activity for the kids at church. We went to Tiberias and helped with the Primary activity. The kids colored eggs, watched the Charlie Brown Easter video, had an Easter egg hunt and ate treats.

The Primary coloring Easter eggs

Tyler was very intrigued by the Easter egg coloring. He wanted to dip the eggs in all of the colors.

Tyler's Easter eggs

For a treat, the kids all got Kinder-eggs. Brooke was thrilled that she got one too.

Yummy chocolate egg

Here is a picture of us after church on the Sabbath. Brooke wore her dress from Jeff and Augusta's wedding and Tyler wore some of his new clothes. If only the kids would look at the camera.

Easter Sabbath family picture

On the way home from church we stopped at a scenic lookout to take more pictures. Brooke and Tyler picked flowers and had lots of fun playing with them.

Dressed up for Easter

We thought Brooke would look especially pretty in the middle of some purple flowers. She had other ideas...

Get me out of here

Brooke's grandma Sherrie sent Brooke a set of plastic dishes. She is in heaven. She sets them all out, with a spoon in each bowl and sometimes she even pretends to eat.

Brooke and her new dishes

For Family Home Evening on Sunday, we decided to have a special Easter message and then color Easter eggs.

Coloring Easter Eggs

After coloring Easter eggs, Brooke and Tyler looked for where the Easter bunny hid their Easter baskets. Tyler was very disappointed that he didn't get to see the Easter Bunny. He asked us over and over again how the Easter bunny got in our house without us seeing him.

Tyler's Easter basket

Brooke was absolutely entranced by her basket. She loves her Little People minivan.

Brooke's Easter basket

Tyler-isms:

"Cold feet" - bare feet.
"Shuter Pan" - parachute man.
"Glows in the night" - Glow-in-the-dark.

Brooke-isms:

"Ba" - What Brooke calls herself.

Posted by sjbowden at March 28, 2005 9:44 PM