I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter and remembered the real reason for the celebration. Today we attended my father's family Easter (and as a side note my dad's sisters work incredibly hard for probably months ahead of time to create a day full of competition - games, trivia...The Frazee Easter is a big deal). Anyway my aunt Karen did a neat little activity with the kids before we got everything else going.

You take a marshmallow and that represents Jesus
Then you roll the marshmallow in butter and then cinnamon and sugar representing the oil and spices that were placed on his body as w/the custom of the time
Then you wrap the marshmallow in crescent roll dough representing the tomb and the stone making sure that you can not see 'Jesus' inside
Next you bake the rolls for about 8 min and when you take them out if you cute them you have a hollow inside and 'Jesus' is no longer there HE is risen!

They kids enjoyed making them and I though that it was a good little visual for what happened and how Jesus' followers must have felt when they saw that he was gone. Kiley did not really get it she was still looking for her marshmallow but it was good for Eli. The don't taste bad either kind of like a cinnamon roll.