Easter: Take 2.......

The day before Easter my Mom came down with strep throat and we all decided to forego Easter dinner and stay home, rather than take the risk of having it go through everyone's family.  One possibility that we came up with was to have Easter over at Amy's and just bring all the food over there while mom stayed at home. But none of us felt like it would be much of an Easter without mom, and besides, she had set the table so pretty :)  

We had all been looking forward to the the fun day with good food and an Easter Egg hunt for the kids, so we decided to just postpone it one week till mom felt better.  So last Sunday we all went to church together and then went over to mom and dad's for "Easter".....

We got home after church and took our traditional Easter family pictures....

Then we all changed and the kids were on the hunt for all the Easter eggs hidden around the yard {some more hidden than others...} 

   

   

We sat down to dinner and ate our yummy ham, jell-o eggs, twice baked potatoes, spinach/strawberry salad and all the other yummies.  We washed it down with Costco's Gi-Nor-Mous chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. Mmm...Mmm...Mmm....

And the great thing about the whole day was that it actually felt like Easter!  Which just goes to show that holidays aren't about what day you celebrate them, but more about being together as a family and keeping the traditions we all love.