Easter Questions Hunt

There are some holidays that are hard for Aaron and me. Holidays that are more fun with kids. Like... Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. It is becomes painfully obvious that we don't have real kids (sorry Bambi and Pippen). It is also hard that some holidays we don't have family nearby for. Halloween, 4th of July, or Easter.

So it meant a whole lot to me when a sister in our ward invited us over to their house for an Easter Egg Hunt. They invite several families over to hide eggs and watch their kids run around the yard looking for the plastic eggs full of....candy? NO!!! The plastic eggs have questions in them! Questions about Easter and Jesus and other Gospel related things. When the kids answer the questions, they get candy!

Isn't that an awesome way to make an Easter egg hunt more Christ centered?

And seriously, I can't tell you how much it meant to be included in something like this.

This little one is in our Primary class. I also hide that blue egg right there.

We hid two eggs in Aaron's hood. Someone said that we should stick them in Aaron's pockets but...Aaron felt a little weird about asking little kids to stick their hands in his pockets.
I loved watching the kids (there were about 10) running around the yard. The younger kids got to find 10 and the older kids could only get 9.

One little boy had an extra and so I asked him which one he wanted to give back and he told me and I quickly re-hid it in the bushes for a little girl who was looking everywhere for that last one. So...I contributed to the magic? Yes.

Once everyone had their eggs, they got out the scriptures and pulled out their questions. When they found the answer to their question, they found an adult with a bag of candy and told us their answer. And...if the question was too hard for that child, we talked with them about it.

For example, one little boy had to recite the 2nd Article of Faith, which is "We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adams transgression." He was only two and a half and was repeating what his dad said so I asked, "So if your brother does something bad, should you be punished for it?" And he said, "No." And he got candy!

After the questions and candy, the kids went off to play and eat some of their candy. It sounded like they were having tons of fun.

Aaron and I got to sit and visit with the parents. It was a really fun night and it made us feel a little less alone up here in Utah and a little less childless.