Hopping Along to Easter 2014: Week 4

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Welcome to the fourth and final week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me, Walking in Faith and Angels of Heart

Can you believe that Resurrection Sunday is here? Whether you would like to share your preparations, your recipes, your crafts or a post related to this week's topic, we ask that you include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button or a text link back to the hop, and head on over to any of our blogs to link up.  It can be as long or short as you want it to be.

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

How did you celebrate Easter/Resurrection Sunday?  

Do you have your children hunt for eggs, do you read the Resurrection Story, do you attend a Sunrise Service at church, a regular church service?  What will you be doing to make this year's Resurrection Sunday special?

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

(Please be aware that irrelevant posts, links to your main blog instead of a specific post and giveaways will be deleted. Please only link up posts relevant to the weekly theme. Thank you for your understanding.)

Hopping Along to Easter 2014: Week 3

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Welcome to the third week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me, Walking in Faith and Angels of Heart

We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, or share an old post that fits the theme. Please include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button or a text link back to the hop, and head on over to any of the co-hosts' blogs to link up. Your post may be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co-host from those who link up a relevant post during the week.  The co-host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.

Featured Co-Host

Lexi from Lextin Academy shared some beautiful Easter Decorations and Art, including Marbled Egg Art, Spaghetti "Easter Grass" Art, Woven Easter Egg Art and Bunny Silhouette Art. Don't forget to stop by and check out all the wonderful ideas.

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What are your favorite Easter recipes? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, snacks?  

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

(Please be aware that irrelevant posts, links to your main blog instead of a specific post and giveaways will be deleted. Please only link up posts relevant to the weekly theme. Thank you for your understanding.)

Hopping Along to Easter 2014: Week 2

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Welcome to the second week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me, Walking in Faith and Angels of Heart

We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, or share an old post that fits the theme. Please include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button or a text link back to the hop, and head on over to any of the co-hosts' blogs to link up. Your post be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co-host from those who link up a relevant post during the week.  The co-host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.

Featured Co-Host

Roberta from A Little Bit of Everything shared these cute Crocheted Easter Baskets last week:

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What sort of craft ideas do you have?

Whether you have children or not, do you have any special crafts planned to help decorate or perhaps give as gifts this Easter/Resurrection Sunday?  

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

(Please be aware that irrelevant posts, links to your main blog instead of a specific post and giveaways will be deleted. Please only link up posts relevant to the weekly theme. Thank you for your understanding.)

Hopping Along to Easter 2014: Week 1

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Hosted by Tots and Me, Walking in Faith and Angels of Heart

Spring is here, well, supposedly. I am still waiting with great anticipation to really experience "spring." I guess it is fortunate that Easter (or Resurrection Sunday) is later in the month this year. Not only is there the chance that it may be warmer so we can do our Egg Hunt outdoors, but we have more time to get ready.

We would like to welcome you to the first week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop! What is Hopping Along to Easter? Well, it is a weekly blog hop that will last from now through the Friday after Easter. Each week there will be a new topic related to the celebration of Easter. We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, or share an old post that fits the theme. Please include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button or a text link back to the hop, and head on over to any of the co-hosts' blogs to link up. Your post be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co-host from those who link up a relevant post during the week.  The co-host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What do you do to prepare for/get ready for Easter?

Do you have anything special you do to prepare yourself, your family, your home for this holiday. During Christmas we spend a lot of time buying and wrapping presents, sending Christmas cards, baking cookies or making candy, decorating our homes.  What do you do to make Easter special?

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

(Please be aware that irrelevant posts, links to your main blog instead of a specific post and giveaways will be deleted. Please only link up posts relevant to the weekly theme. Thank you for your understanding.)

Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop-Week 4

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Welcome to the fourth week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me,  Purple Froggie Clay Stuff and Classified: Mom.

This week's guest co-host was drawn randomly from those who linked up recipes in last week's hop.  I am pleased to introduce Fryman Four as this week's guest co-host.

 This is the last week of Hopping Along to Easter.  Can you believe that Easter/Resurrection Sunday is this coming weekend? Whether you would like to share your preparations, your recipes, your crafts or a post related to this week's topic, we ask that you compose a related post answering the question, include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button, and head on over to any of our blogs to link up.  It can be as long or short as you want it to be.  

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

How will you be celebrating Easter/Resurrection Sunday morning?  

Do you have your children hunt for eggs, do you read the Resurrection Story, do you attend a Sunrise Service at church, a regular church service?  What will you be doing to make this year's Resurrection Sunday special?


We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you. This linky will be open through through April 30th.

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Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop-Week 3

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Welcome to the second week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me,  Purple Froggie Clay Stuff and Classified: Mom.

This week's guest co-host was drawn randomly from those who linked up crafts in last week's hop.  I am pleased to introduce Mom's Of All Trades as this week's guest co-host.








 We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button, and head on over to either of our blogs to link up.  It can be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co host from those who enter during the week.  The co host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.  

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What are your favorite Easter recipes? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, snacks?  

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you. This linky will be open through Easter Sunday.

Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop-Week 2

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Welcome to the second week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me,  Purple Froggie Clay Stuff and Classified: Mom.  We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button, and head on over to either of our blogs to link up.  It can be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co host from those who enter during the week.  The co host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.  There is no guest co host so far this week.

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What sort of craft ideas do you have?

Whether you have children or not, do you have any special crafts planned to help decorate or perhaps give as gifts this Easter/Resurrection Sunday?  

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

Hopping Along to Easter: What we do to prepare.

I realize our first question was posted a week ago and I never answered my own question.

What do you do to get ready for Easter?

I was actually a little disappointed that there wasn't much of a response to our hop and only one person actually answered the question in a blog post.  Tomorrow we will be posting the second week's topic and I hope we will have some more participation.

Here is my answer to the question:

While I was brought up Catholic, even then we weren't really strict in observing Lent.  Yeah, I had heard about giving something up for Lent, but was never really serious about it.  Now, as a born again Christian (who also happens to attend a Mennonite church) we don't really observe Lent.  Ash Wednesday was a day to go to church (growing up) and getting ashes on my forehead.  But as a child, I really didn't understand why.  So, while we don't observe Lent, we still prepare for Easter or Resurrection Sunday as I prefer to call it.  We will read the Easter story in the weeks leading up to Easter, using our Resurrection Eggs.  This year I have some great activities in mind to go along with that, so we can keep our hearts and minds focused on what the Lord has done for us.  Last year I was a tad preoccupied with being very very pregnant so their wasn't a lot going on activity wise.  I will be posting about our activities we are doing as we get closer to Easter.  Besides the Resurrection Eggs there are two things we did last year that I would like to do again.  We made Resurrection Rolls and Resurrection Cookies, though I never did post about them, which I thought I had.  You can head on over to Annie's Resurrection Sunday Page for some great ideas of things to do with your children.
We also have a Cross Walk on Good Friday at our church that we like to attend if we can.

You still have time to answer this question on your own blog and head on over to the original post to link up.

Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop-Week 1

Welcome to the first week of the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop hosted by Tots and Me and Purple Froggie Clay Stuff.  We would love for you to come back each week and check out the current topic.  We ask that you compose a related post answering the question, include the Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop Button, and head on over to either of our blogs to link up.  It can be as long or short as you want it to be.  We will be choosing a co host from those who enter during the week.  The co host will have the linky on their blog for the following week.  

Please take the time to visit the blogs of those who have linked up.  Leave a comment.  Follow them.  Wish them a Happy Easter.

Don't forget to follow the hostesses.  We will gladly stop by your blog and follow you back.

Here is this week's question:

What do you do to prepare for/get ready for Easter?

Do you have anything special you do to prepare yourself, your family, your home for this holiday.  During Christmas we spend a lot of time buying and wrapping presents, sending Christmas cards, baking cookies or making candy, decorating our homes.  What do you do to make this holiday special?

We are looking forward to reading your posts, visiting your blogs and following you.

Hopping Along to Easter Blog Hop is coming!!!

hosted by Tots and Me and Purple Froggie Clay Stuff

Spring is here and Easter is on its way!  Granted it is falling way late this year.  But you know what, that gives us lots of time to get ready.  Crafts and activities to do.  A Bible Story to read a little at a time.  And maybe, as it is later in the spring, we can hide eggs outside again.  

This blog hop series will continue until Easter Sunday.  We invite you to come back each week to see our new Easter related topic.  We ask that you publish a post about the current Easter related theme and link up to your Easter Blog Hop post.  We hope that those participating will visit the other blogs and comment.  If you would like to follow that would be great too.  But we all know we love those comments.  

A co-host will be chosen each week from those who have linked up with a relevant post.  

Stay tuned for the first theme coming soon.  Each theme's linky will be open for a week.