The world's toughest egg hunt

Two days after Easter and all the fake plastic eggs have been found. All the left over ham has been eaten. And all the family has gone home. It's like after Christmas but without the mountain of used wrapping paper sitting in the corner of the living room.

This year Megan (my wife) and I went home to my side of the family for Easter. It was quite the celebration. I say this because we had an egg hunt out in the back yard. This wasn't just any egg hunt. This was the world's toughest Easter egg hunt! (Queue dramatic theme music and drop the house lights!)

My soon-to-be sister-in-law Danielle hid over 60 eggs! And boy did she know where to hide them! I've been finding eggs in my backyard every Easter for as long as I can remember, and she had us all stumped. If there was a scale of toughness this hunt would rank as a 9.

She hid them up in the rain gutters.

She hid them under loose siding on the house.

She buried them in the ground.

Yes, Danielle sure knew how to challenge a 4-year-old. (In her defense us older "kids" couldn't find them either) Toughness aside, we had a great time looking for them.

I wonder... if Jesus came back and decided to just hang out amongst his followers before revealing who he was, be a fly on the wall during our Easter celebrations...I wonder if he'd think we all missed the point? He'd probably laugh at our egg hunts, baskets filled with chocolate bunnies, and all the rest of the mementos that commercialize the most important date on the Christian calendar.

Now that's not to say we all suck at celebrating Easter. To be honest, I'm not really sure how one would go about celebrating Easter any differently. You go to church, then gather with family, eat a meal together and say a prayer because Jesus rose from the dead after dying for our sins on the cross. What more would Jesus have us do?

I sat down earlier today and wrote some ideas down. Here are some things you maybe could do in order to celebrate Easter in a more Christ-like way:

1. Put on a reenactment of Jesus' resurrection in your backyard for all the neighbors to watch. (from their windows with binoculars)

2. Walk around the block singing Easter carols. (why is this ok at Christmas but unheard of at Easter?)

3. Put on a dramatic reading of the bible at your local coffee shop. (read everything after the Gospels)

4. Your church could do communion like an egg hunt where the ushers hide plastic eggs filled with bread and wine all over the sanctuary, the church offices, and the parking lot. "Who's ready to receive the body and blood of Christ?! Ready, set, GO!"

5. You could get David Blaine to guest star at your church and attempt to break out of a sealed tomb! (the point here is for Mr. Blaine to fail you see...because we can't have David Blaine upstaging Jesus on Easter)

These are just a few ideas that MY family have tried. Feel free to create your own! Happy Easter!