Easter Traditions

[Thornless]

I am not religioius, I just celebrate Easter just for the hunts, baskets of goodies, and chcocolate bunnies:ninja

Not much tops watching my kids faces as they run around finding eggs. Makes me remeber the Easter's I had when I was little, each one was slightly different...but many things carried over each year. Baskets for one.

Here's their baskets for the morning, they have the hunt at Great-grandma's with all their cousins tomorrow ar noon. They are still getting a hang of the whole holiday, so we didn't get them a whole bunch.



Going to get some good photos of the sugar rush cutness, hopefully outdoors if the rain stops! Cannot wait to see the kids in their Easter outfits!

What are you Easter traditions?

 

[pjbleek]

used to go to the Sunrise mass (6am) then have a light breakfast and help mom cook dinner...she would have little snacks for us all the time between lunch time and our dinner...it was good times....now my wife and I go visit friends and family and drop off Easter lilies and stop for a cup of coffee and see my nieces and nephew. With Greek Orthodox this Sunday it gives my nieces a break instead of celebrating with two families it is one family celebration.

 

[Natasha]

Every year (except for one, and believe me, there WAS a revolt!!!) my mom has made a bunny cake. I don't know if the rest of you are familiar w/ it, but you make 2 round cakes and use one for the face, the other you cut out the ears and the leftover part makes a bowtie. It's the cutest thing EVER!!!

 

[pjbleek]

Every year (except for one, and believe me, there WAS a revolt!!!) my mom has made a bunny cake. I don't know if the rest of you are familiar w/ it, but you make 2 round cakes and use one for the face, the other you cut out the ears and the leftover part makes a bowtie. It's the cutest thing EVER!!!

That's awesome Tasha!!!!

 

[Thornless]

used to go to the Sunrise mass (6am) then have a light breakfast and help mom cook dinner...she would have little snacks for us all the time between lunch time and our dinner...it was good times....now my wife and I go visit friends and family and drop off Easter lilies and stop for a cup of coffee and see my nieces and nephew. With Greek Orthodox this Sunday it gives my nieces a break instead of celebrating with two families it is one family celebration.

Snacks, brunches, smorgishboard are the best for family gatherings I think.

Every year (except for one, and believe me, there WAS a revolt!!!) my mom has made a bunny cake. I don't know if the rest of you are familiar w/ it, but you make 2 round cakes and use one for the face, the other you cut out the ears and the leftover part makes a bowtie. It's the cutest thing EVER!!!

Oh my gawd, that's adorable! Better than the one I bought!:willy_nilly:

Next year, I make it!

 

[Natasha]

Snacks, brunches, smorgishboard are the best for family gatherings I think.



Oh my gawd, that's adorable! Better than the one I bought!:willy_nilly:

Next year, I make it!

It's super easy and so frigging cute. Seriously, every single year (even though my mom's youngest child is 29 years old) we have to have one of these made.

 

[Boomerang]

Thornless- those baskets are adorable!
Tash- I LOVE that cake.

We never had much of a tradition. We would go to church on Easter. I don't know if it was just a Church of Christ thing or what but they never mentioned anything to do with Easter during the service, so it was no different than any other Sunday (other than more people than usual showed up).

I wish we had traditions. I would have done anything to have an Easter basket or hunt for Easter eggs. Heck, I would love it now!

 

[HottyToddyChick]

We did baskets and hunts. I'm sure we did church but can't remember.

I did request a basket from Matt. I remember the first no basket year. Mom asked and I brushed it off with an I'm-too-old air. (I was in college...) and I was so disappointed there was no basket.

And I am totally making that cake tomorrow!

 

[Natasha]

For the record, my mom always used twizzlers for whiskers and then jelly beans to line the bowtie and ears (pink on the ears, a red one for the mouth, and a black one for the nose). For the middle of the bowtie she'd always use those chocolate candy coins.

 

[Thornless]

Thornless- those baskets are adorable!
Tash- I LOVE that cake.

We never had much of a tradition. We would go to church on Easter. I don't know if it was just a Church of Christ thing or what but they never mentioned anything to do with Easter during the service, so it was no different than any other Sunday (other than more people than usual showed up).

I wish we had traditions. I would have done anything to have an Easter basket or hunt for Easter eggs. Heck, I would love it now!

Never to late to start traditions! You could do an egg hunt with the students I had a teacher who did that, she put quarters in a few eggs.

For the record, my mom always used twizzlers for whiskers and then jelly beans to line the bowtie and ears (pink on the ears, a red one for the mouth, and a black one for the nose). For the middle of the bowtie she'd always use those chocolate candy coins.

Freaking genius can't wait to make it with the kids!

 

[Keight]

We dont have overly a lot of tradition except for chocolate whenever you want no matter the time as long as you go to bed when told AND a roast dinner, this year who knows could be the beginning of gumbo for easter if all goes well

 

[Springsteen]

I just eat an easter egg. Or two.

 

[Zorak]

I'm at work all day but I'm going to drop into the chapel see what's going on.

Usually the uni hosts some sort of egg hunt for the local children, so I might get involved, I mean- I'm much bigger and stronger than they are. Those eggs are all mine.

 

[Springsteen]

Nothing better than beating kids at their own game.

 

[Abcinthia]

Every year (except for one, and believe me, there WAS a revolt!!!) my mom has made a bunny cake. I don't know if the rest of you are familiar w/ it, but you make 2 round cakes and use one for the face, the other you cut out the ears and the leftover part makes a bowtie. It's the cutest thing EVER!!!

That is amazing!

I don't really do much apart from a big family meal.

 

[HK]

Gah, we're on a diet in my house so we haven't bought any chocolate, let alone easter eggs, for some time now, and I'm too old to get them from my parents!

When I have my own kids though I'd like to do things like an easter egg hunt, and egg painting

 

[RedRyder]

We always went to Church as a family. All dressed up in our new Easter outfits.

Then there was the hunting for eggs and even our Easter baskets. Usually an early dinner around 3:00 p.m. with Ham and all the trimmings.

I've continued many of those Easter Traditions.

 

[Thornless]

I'm at work all day but I'm going to drop into the chapel see what's going on.

Usually the uni hosts some sort of egg hunt for the local children, so I might get involved, I mean- I'm much bigger and stronger than they are. Those eggs are all mine.

:24: that's the spirit.

We always went to Church as a family. All dressed up in our new Easter outfits.

Then there was the hunting for eggs and even our Easter baskets. Usually an early dinner around 3:00 p.m. with Ham and all the trimmings.

I've continued many of those Easter Traditions.

Mmm ham my Dad did a different meal every easter, roasted beef or lamb, ham, one year he tricked us into eating rabbit! :24:

 

[RedRyder]

Mmm ham my Dad did a different meal every easter, roasted beef or lamb, ham, one year he tricked us into eating rabbit! :24:

Yikes! As far as I know, I have never been tricked into eating anything I didn't know what it was from the start.

That would upset me. Particularly if I ate it and liked it. :willy_nilly:

 

[Thornless]

Yikes! As far as I know, I have never been tricked into eating anything I didn't know what it was from the start.

That would upset me. Particularly if I ate it and liked it. :willy_nilly:

We did.:willy_nilly:

He made it look like fried chicken! After we ate it he told us what it was and sang "here comes Peter Cotton tail, coming down the bunny trail..."

We were horrified. :24: