Easter

Since it was our turn to host our Extended Family FHE, we decided to hold it on Easter and do a big Easter dinner too.  We got up bright and early to get the turkey on to the smoker to cook.  It's the first time we've ever tried something so big, so we were really hoping it would cook properly!

 We had a temperature probe in and it came to temp way faster than what it said.  We tried two other temperature probes too and they all came back saying that it was up to temp.  We took it off and wrapped it in tinfoil to keep it at least warm until we were ready to eat.  It smelled SO good! 

 We'd booked the church for the dinner which was nice since it was raining outside most of the day. I'd printed off a bunch of Easter coloring pages and it seemed to work well to keep the kids occupied in the gym and not running around in the hallways!  We also brought our basketballs and that helped too.

 After dinner, we had a super short lesson about Easter.  The kids had to go find 'eggs' around the gym and then put themselves in order for the story to make sense.  I think it went okay. 

I would have loved to have had more adult discussion about what they'd learned this week too, but it was hard with that many kids and being spread out in the gym.

We missed Rachel and Melissa and their families.  We were glad that everyone else was able to come though.  It was a fun Easter dinner.