Egg Hunt and Resurrection Eggs

Our wonderful neighbor Dore has been doing an Easter egg hunt for our kids for the last few years.  She seems to make it bigger and better every year, and this year she went all out again.  She invited the grandchildren of our other neighbors (who all live nearby and are around quite a bit), to join our kids.  We had 2 five-year-olds, 1 four-year-old, and 5 two-year-olds participating.  The two-year-olds watched the older ones and figured out pretty quickly what the object of the game was, and joined right in!  Miriam was a little overwhelmed and stuck pretty close to Casey.  It was fun to watch all of them hunt for eggs and then Dore also had a little labeled gift bag for each of them with their names on them.

After all the eggs were found, we went and sat on Dore's deck to have a snack.  Then our neighbor (the grandma to the other children) told the Easter story using the Resurrection Eggs.  We have these eggs as well and use them with our kids each year, but it was neat for them to hear someone else tell the story.  She did an amazing job of telling it very dramatically and in a meaningful way, and even the two-year-olds were listening quite intently. 

We are thankful to have such great neighbors and really enjoy this tradition that we have with them!