A Different Kind of Easter

This year, Spring Break fell over the Easter holiday. We planned a trip to take advantage of the time off, so we did some Easter festivities the week before Easter. The kids ended up with a snow day, so it was the perfect day for dyeing eggs.

The brown eggs here don't hold the dye as well, but it still works and the kids had fun. 

We didn't let the snow deter us from an egg hunt.

Ready to hunt

The first round was easy - I just threw the eggs and the kids found the holes and dug them out. 

After a while, they started hiding eggs for each other and the snow was trampled. At the end of the hunt, we only had 2 eggs and the rest are being well preserved until spring finally arrives.

On Easter Sunday, we were on a cruise to the Canary Islands. There were no matching outfits, no hurried pictures, no Easter baskets (please don't remind my children), and no formal church service. 

But there was Jesus...the reason that we celebrate. And we were together. 

And we celebrated the resurrection of our Savior!