Today was our annual Easter Eggstravaganza at FMBC. The girls have been looking forward to today for weeks and when Rachel woke up today the first thing she asked me was "Is it time yet?" Since it was 7:40 am, I told her not quite time yet, but they were certainly ready and excited by the time we had to leave for church. As the kids arrived before the event they were coloring and drawing pictures. Somehow, they decided to make an Easter banner. There are lots of names of here of the kids who helped and here are Rachel and Rosie with Bekah after they helped hang the Easter banner.
The Easter Eggstravaganza started with a cookie walk. Here is Rachel with the first cookie she picked when her number was chosen.
After the cookie walk, the kids made an edible craft using a graham cracker and green icing for the ground and a half of a doughnut for the tomb and a doughnut hole for the stone that was rolled way from the front of the tomb when Jesus arose.
Here is Rachel's craft. She wanted to write her own name on her plate when I came around with the marker to write names on each plate. We have been working on cursive handwriting in her schoolwork for a few weeks now and started on her whole name this week, so I was excited to see her using cursive handwriting on her own.
After the cookie walk and craft, the kids were divided into two groups of Little ones through Pre-K and Elementary through Middle school. Rachel and Bekah are now in two separate age groups so I was running back and forth between groups with both big girls. Thanks to Sherry for her help with Bethany today too!
Here is Rachel's age group before the balloon relay. This was taken just after I said "Make a silly face!"
They also had an egg tower game. Rachel was really concentrating on this one.
Here is part of Bekah's group showing me their eggs before the egg relay.
Here is the littlest egg hunter and her Daddy and her Mommy.
Before we hunted eggs, Mrs. Judith did a presentation with the kids using eggs in the colors of the salvation bracelet to share the Gospel with all the kids there.
The first egg stands for our sin. The next egg, red, stands for Jesus's blood that He gave in dying on the cross for our sins. The next egg stands for Jesus washing our sins away and giving us His forgiveness and new life in Him when we put our trust in Him. The blue egg stands for water representing being baptized to show that we have put our trust in Jesus to forgive us. The green egg stands for our new life in Jesus and the gold egg stands for the promise of heaven and eternity forever with Jesus because of what He did for us in dying for us and rising again from the grave.
Last, we hunted eggs. Two interesting tidbits about this egg hunt: 1) Yes, it SNOWED this morning before time to hunt eggs which is why you see the very large ski jackets. Thankfully, the snow stopped before it was time to hunt the eggs. Last year it was around 70 degrees, this year it was in the lower 30s... The girls were still excited and didn't notice too much!
2) Thanks to our awesome helpers, there were close to about 1,850 (!!) eggs hidden ( and I think maybe a few to still be found!)
Here is Bethany at her first Easter Eggstravaganza with one of her first Easter eggs.
Bethany had friends her age there today too. Matt and Molly brought Hannah and Aleah over today for the fun. Here are Bethany and Aleah together. Bethany's friend Brody also came. Brody is just sitting up on his own and this is one of their first pictures side by side.
We had a great time at the Easter Eggstravaganza today. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this such a special event for each of the kids. We are looking forward to Easter Eggstravaganza 2016 already!
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