Easter Egg 2011

Easter festivities started on Easter Eve with egg coloring.  

On Sunday morning, Randy and I continued our tradition of getting up early and heading to the sunrise service downtown.  We sang a few hymns and heard a great message as the sun came up on a beautiful morning.

After leaving town we headed home for breakfast before heading back out to church services.  This is all leading up to the kids' favorite Easter tradition of the family photo.  They may not love taking the photos, but they know it's coming.  This year we made sure we weren't staring into the sun but the challenge of having five people look in the same direction with a smile still existed.

I was really happy with the results of our photo this year.  The kids were really happy we achieved it with minimal takes.
     Umm... . not quite the look I was going for:

This is more like it:

 Don't worry, because the day wasn't over yet.   We still had Easter egg hunts and a great dinner with friends.   Then, and only then, would we be fully deprived of our Easter nap.

We had such a good day that I totally forgot to eat any of those colored eggs we made.  I guess Easter isn't really over yet.