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WOOT!  I'm here!!!! :)  Yes, it's not Easter yet, but I am making this thread early for two reasons.  One, to ensure I make the first one (hehehehe) and two, because on Easter day we are having a party so I will be unable to come on, most likely.  So, it's been pretty difficult not coming onto the CB often... but I survived and am happy to be able to post and visit the Chattberox world! 

 

So, what is everyone doing for Easter?  First, we're going to the vigil mass tonight... which is like three hours long... but we have to because my dad is entering the Church tonight!  Yayayay!  So then we are having a party on Sunday, kinda to celebrate for my dad, and kinda just to hang with friends on this wonderful holiday! Admins are welcome to describe their Easter activites, also. :)  I'm hoping to get lots of Reeses in my basket! :)

 

Robyn~D~

 

Eggs are all colored. We're having a family dinner tonight. Church tomorrow morning. Then we're going to a matinee show of Cirque du Soleil. The tickets were a birthday present. After that we'll have a meal at some restaurant.

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submitted by R~D~, age 14
(April 23, 2011 - 1:27 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

I went to my grandparents' house for most of the weeked, and later, my mom and I read our Bible. We didn't do much, but we enjoyed ourselves. I had a couple of foods I don't usually eat because of food sensitivities.

Aetc says etap! He watched a tap dance on the Internet, I think.

submitted by Ima, Weissnichtwo
(April 24, 2011 - 5:11 pm)

TOP!!!

submitted by Top
(April 25, 2011 - 12:51 pm)

Easter morning, we woke up and each found a book about Easter in our Easter baskets. Mine was a little one about Mary Magdalene. It told the Easter story from her point of view. Then we went to church. It was a new church that we had never gone to before. We all really enjoyed the service. Then we went home and prepared for company. We don't have many relatives, and the ones that we do have couldn't come, so only my aunt and her friend were there. After they left, we watched part of an Easter movie (The Night Before Christmas from VeggieTales) and dyed eggs. Then we went to bed. Looks like you all had fun!

submitted by Princess P.
(April 25, 2011 - 3:51 pm)

@Princess P: How exactly is the Night Before CHRISTMAS an Easter movie? :):):):):):):)

 

I was wondering the same thing!

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submitted by R~D~, age 14
(April 25, 2011 - 8:00 pm)

On Saturday we had a tea party with a large family we hardly ever get to see. The Dads hid the eggs in the woods, and it took us the longest time to find them all. And my sister found two more just yesterday! They had hidden the green ones amongst the little green plants on the ground, and some even in the crooks of branches of trees.

We went to Bible Class and Church. Then we had to race home to get ready for another huge family who was going to eat lunch with us. Five kids, and one baby. Eight kids, counting us. It was so much fun!!! We showed them our woods and then we went on an Egg hunt. The first one the eggs were hidden outside. The second one was inside. There are still two eggs missing! They weren't over for very long...

We actually didn't decorate any eggs this year. We opened a giant chocolate egg with smaller chocolates inside it on Sunday. Then I and each of our sisters got to open our small personal chocolate eggs our English dance teacher had gotten us from England! The box said it had Smarties inside the egg. But the candies were more like a fruity M&M.

Peaceing out for now,

-Hannah/Kiwi

submitted by Kiwi, age 15, Arundal
(April 25, 2011 - 8:11 pm)

Hmm...Kiwi, if you think five kids is a huge family, you'd better not come visit me...

:) 

submitted by Brynne
(April 26, 2011 - 3:31 pm)

My sister and I got up at 6:15 on Easter morning to get ready for the Sunrise Service, which the Youth were putting on. It was mostly a skit called "The Forrest for the Trees" that was based incredibly loosely on Forrest Gump. It was about the Easter story (I know, totally didn't see that coming, right?), and somehow Forrest Gump was present at the tomb where Jesus rose. Then I got to sing in the praise choir that was supposed to be made up of the Youth. It was all the boys, and the band leader, the lady who sings every Sunday...and me.

 

Whoops, I have to go make lunch. I'll post more later.

Tata! 

submitted by Jess, age 13, A livingroom
(April 26, 2011 - 11:46 am)

Yay!!! You're back!! I have already gone on my officially unofficial shopping spree. ;)  I got a purse I had been coveting that conveniently went on sale, and a shirt with Snoopy on it that I also had been dying to get. This week has been a sugary dream....all that's left in my Easter basked are a few unappetizing smushed jelly beans. :P

submitted by MJ, age 15
(April 26, 2011 - 1:55 pm)

Thanks, MJ! :)  Argh! Lucky!  I haven't managed to shop yet... we've been busy!  But I'm trying to get my mom to take me to the huge mall that's probably an hour away when my dad's off of work and able to watch my siblings.  Because, honestly, I DO need new clothes come summer, so what a better time then now? ;) 

 

We bought wayyyyy too much candy, and even after the party, had TONS left over.  So we ended up giving a couple bags to the poor, let my dad take a couple more to work, and then kept the rest.  That's not even including what we got in our Easter baskets!

submitted by R~D~, age 14, I'll be 15 in T
(April 26, 2011 - 5:15 pm)

Hey, R~D!! Same time! Sorry, I can't see your post yet. :(

submitted by Mary Jo--HEY R~D!!, age 15
(April 26, 2011 - 5:19 pm)

WELCOME BACK ROBYN!!!!!!!!!

We were in France and we got chocolate and we saw Sacré Cour and I wore my new Easter dress!

 

submitted by Elizabeth M, age 11, Germany
(April 27, 2011 - 2:41 am)

YAY R~D~, your back. I meant to post here way sooner but I couldn't make myself sit down and type. Happy Easter to all!!!!!

For Easter Sunday we got up and went to the 7:30 mass. When we got back we had a breakfast of fruit, coffee cake, bacon, and eggs and then after that I spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon reading, (Which I gave up for lent. So far I have read three books and am half way through a fourth) snacking from the candy on the table, (That was decorated like it is every year with ukrainian eggs, sugar eggs, candy, each persons large chocolate bunny, and china plates, all on a white tablecloth) napping, and making a pecan pie and yellow cake. My Mom cooked a delicious lunch/dinner of lamb, biscuits, greens from our garden, quinwa with almonds, and corn on the cob. We also had blood orange italian soda and we finished off a bottle and sitll have three and a half left which we will drink throughout the other 37 days of Easter. After that I read more and then watched the Prince of Persia with most of my family while eating desert.

 

So that was my Easter Sunday. It was excellant. This entire Easter week has a lot of exciting stuff in it, and the most exciting thing hasn't even happened yet. And there is still 37 more days of Easter.

Kiwi, on your location do you mean Arundal like from the Penderwicks?

 

submitted by Elizabeth D. , age 14 , Texas
(April 26, 2011 - 10:44 pm)