Easter Eve and the snooze that it brought!

Easter Eve and Mckenna and Kyler are as anxious as if it is Christmas Eve. Where have I gone wrong?!
They don't care about what Easter is suppose to remind them of~The Savior and the Resurrection and the wonderful gift that He has given to us.
No, all they care about of course is the Easter bunny coming to our neck of town. Mckenna had the hardest time going to sleep. Matt and I were out before 10 p.m. and she was still awake!
Matt wakes up and notices her wandering around and tells her to go back to sleep. I guess she tried but was so excited that she came down again. Matt finally woke me up told me to get the trail and the baskets done before she came down again and that he would put her to bed and lay down with her for awhile.
By the time she fell asleep it was 3 a.m. and I was exhausted. We have a great family tradition of a jelly bean trail that sends each kid to their basket (like a treasure trail, but with candy!) It took me a few hours to get everything set, since I was trying to do these trails quietly and have them each end up outside on different parts of the front and back porches! Then because I was quite awake by then, I ended up cleaning up our bathroom, folding some laundry and ironing church clothes, finally, I guess I wore myself out and went to sleep, I think it was 5:30 a.m.
Matt came down after that and returned to bed, but low and behold around 6:30 a.m. here comes Mckenna Marie ready for the fun of the trail! YES, the Bunny had come and she wanted to get going! We told her to go back to bed especially, since I was exhausted. She had to wait until 7:30 and then we were ready for the kids to find their baskets.
Sadly for us, Church is at 9:00 a.m. so we didn't even get to go back to sleep. Church was awesome, we sang all my favorite songs, (mostly all Easter or related to the resurrection, "I know that my Redeemer lives," etc...) We had a great lesson in Gospel Doctrine and then I had the great smiling husband waiting for me in the hallway after his Young Men class was over. (no, he is only an assistant for Devin's scout group, dad, he is not teaching the class.)
Then we had a nap after a quick bite to eat. I sleep forever (until 5:30 p.m.) and had to be woken up so that we could have a nice dinner of the unordinary Easter Dinner: Beef, Broccoli and Rice. I guess it was an appropriate meal for one of our family; Mckenna's Easter dress was a pink, white and red Japanese dress. She was adorable. The boys got new shirts, and ties. They looked very handsome.
WE did end up talking about the real reason for Easter, and they did understand. Could it be because we had just watched the afternoon before the "Greatest Story Ever Told?" Maybe, or maybe it was because I had good back up in Church on what it was really all about. After it was all over Matt and I talked about doing the fun stuff on Saturday and leave the spiritual stuff for Sunday.
So here is to have a sleepless night next year on Friday instead!