Easter is coming up here soon and so Damien and I have been talking about Easter traditions.
My family would always dye eggs the day before Easter for the "Easter bunny' to hide that night while we were asleep. The Easter bunny would also bring us each our own Easter basket which contained a chocolate bunny, a few Cadbury eggs (my favorite), Peeps, some malt-ball eggs and other small candies, and a little something we wanted like a CD or t-shirt.
A couple of of years we went to my grandparents' house in Bountiful for Easter. It seems like every time we went my grandma would be the one to hide the eggs. Whenever she would hide them, we would always end up not being able to find at least one egg because she had hid them so well. It must have been all of those years of practice. When we would ask here where else to look she wouldn't be able to remember where else she hid them. For the next day or so we would still be looking for that one egg we couldn't find the day before. I think we always found the missing eggs eventually.
In Damien's family, the girls would get Easter dresses and the boys would get new ties along with some of their favorite Easter candy. They would usually do an Easter egg hunt outside on Easter with the plastic eggs filled with candy and coins.
As many of you know, Damien's mom Rita lives in New Orleans. There is a candy company called Elmer Chocolate there that makes special Easter candy that is only sold down in that part of the country or online now. Each year a little before Easter she sends us a package of this amazing candy. I look forward to that package every year. Especially because she always puts some Cadbury eggs in with the other candy!
Damien and I have been wanting to start some Easter traditions of our own and are wondering what some of your favorite Easter traditions are.
What does your family do every year to celebrate Easter?
1 comment:
We would color eggs and then my Dad would hide them outside on Easter morning for us to go look for. My mom would always make us each an easter basket with the same types of things as you. Although, we got unique easter candy like this. I know Brady and his brothers never got an easter basket, but he always went to his grandparents house and had an easter egg hunt. Easter is fun!!
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