What's YOUR Easter Tradition!?

Well we are fortunate in that we have 5 acres, 3 of which is nice green grass. So we started a tradition 2 yrs ago in that we host an Egg hunt for the kids here on our hill and our Grandchildren. Parents bring eggs to hunt, we provide several surprise ones with candy and money in them. The egg hunt takes about 1 hour then we have an "Adult" Egg hunt on our 4 wheelers (ATV's) they must find one egg (Raw) and park the bike, retrieve the egg, and get it back to "home base" without breaking it. It's a lot of fun. We have tons of food, everyone brings their favorite Easter food recipe and we have a total feast. This years menu is: Honey Baked Ham Deep Fried Turkeys (2) 3 Santa Maria Marinated Tri-Tips Watergate Salad Spicy crock-pot beans Potato Salad Hash-Brown-Cheesy Cassarole Sliced Melon Chips Salsa Guacamole Veggie Tray Coconut 4 layer cake Pies M & M's of course and lots of assorted Easter Candies. After that - we laze around in the Southern Calif sun and catch up on all the news in the families while the kids all play. It's a great day for all. We really enjoy it. Even the clean up is not bad. Everyone chips in and it's done in no time. We send lots of left overs home with folks.

Every year we spend Easter with the family, I have two kids and so usually we have a easter hunt inside the house because there is still snow on the ground but spring is certainly around the corner here...my kids are getting older so now we will buy them something, got my daughter a cd she wanted and my son a toy, and we throw in a few easter eggs, nothing too much as too much chocolate isnt good for you...then I cook a turkey with all the trimmings and we all sit down to a meal, my entire family, or the ones that can make it...this year there will be 11 of us..

Easter isn't really somthing i celebrate, besides eating lots of chocolate. When i was young i used to paint hard boiled eggs and roll them down hills but of course you grow out of that. It's probably because i don't believe in religion anymore so easter is not soley about chocolate. Which is fine for a chocoholic but not one on a diet!

Hi, Being a Pagan I don't celebrate Easter, although Easter is borrowed from the Pagan celebration of Ostara being 21st March basically it is to celebrate the start of summer. I used to buy my daughter Easter eggs when she was younger as I felt she missed out (and still do for Christmas as I think that would be mean) but nowadays she's 17 and always on a diet anyway so she doesn't mind. I do usually buy my friends daughter an easter egg though as again I wouldn't want to seem mean.

When I was younger, my mother used to hide presents around the house for me to find. She would wake me up by coming into my bedroom and shouting, "THE BUNNY WAS HERE!" I know that sounds corny, but when you're five years old, you jump up out of bed and go running. :) Now, I just spend a quiet dinner with my immediate family. It's not nearly as exciting, but just as rewarding.