Easter Baskets!

This morning, the girls woke up late (what...?). When the awoke, their Easter baskets were hidden! Cecilia had to do some hunting to find her basket full of goodies...

"Cecilia, where's your basket?"

"Is it in these boxes?"

"What about in your Pooh Mobile?"

Mimi's Basket!

And she's helping herself to Cecilia's too!

"Wow Cecilia, what did you get?"

"People, Mimi!"

"oh boy!"

"Momma, the Easter Bunny got me a sugar high!"

Sisters...

Grass strewn carelessly about

Chocolate! Ask how we can tell she is a Princess...

Cecilia's bunny ears.

Jumping Like the Easter Bunny

Cecilia's Easter Basket Adventure

And in case anyone's interested, we had a little debate over Easter family traditions. The Hale family always had Easter baskets hidden when the awoke, but the Thomas's didn't do fun things like that. So Carly and I were wondering why my side of the family always did that, and I had no idea. We looked it up (Google knows all...).

Turns out that the egg is a symbol of fertility (duh!), of new life. The relation between eggs and life is why the Easter egg is a symbol of Christ's resurrection. But no one's quite sure why we hide the eggs. And many folks hide the easter baskets, others hide the eggs. There were all kinds of conjectures as to why, lots of random historical pagan and Christian facts, but no consensus... So who knows - but its fun!