Does your family celebrate Easter together?

Normally we do celebrate Easter together with he big family,but not for this year since I am living far away from my big family this time, I don't think we can celebrate together.

we celebrated holy week and easter sunday together. and we prefer to be in house rather than going outside. it's fun because we maintained bonding to ech other and at the same time we are relaxed from long days of work.

Hey only the ones I live with do it is more christmas that my family spend together a.

We usually gather together during the Easter celebration. Sometime we go out to the beach all together and have some party or we just out in the backyard and have some barbecue. The thing is we consider it a time to celebrate together and have fun.

Just about every year during easter my family gets togetehr and inevitably someone brings up why we hide easter eggs.

Oh yea, we party at Easter here. Normally my cousins come up as well as my uncle, I love easter, it is not nearly as good as Christmas but still.

Your family sounds like a blast!! We do have Easter dinner all together. It is at my house this year. There should be 17 here for dinner. After dinner we play board games before we eat dessert.

I celebrate Orthodox Easter which is most often not on the same date as the rest of the Christian world we use the old calendar. Starting on Thrsday the women of the house gets up before the sun rises to boil 1 or 3 eggs then we use special red colours to paint the egg red and put it outside to meet the first ray of sun. The egg stands on a red cloth. The kids (an the grown ups) when they wake up use the egg to make 3 circles on their faces so they can be blessed, happy and healthy all year. then on Saturday we paint the rest of the eggs and decorate them (I will send photos of my beautiful eggs in April when its my easter). We go to church on Saturday for midnight mass and at 12 we brake eggs. The way we do that is one holds the egg the other person knocks his egg. In the morning we go to church and after church we go to the oldest person in the family, than the one after and so on. And we have a huge lunch and then continue visiting people the next 3 days. Belive me you get sick of eating eggs after 3 days. Then the first painted egg goes to the little place where we have Icons of saints, insence burner and oil burner and stays there till next easter.

My mother-in-law and her husband always have a cookout in the back yard. Since our family is small we all gather every year, but mostly we do visit one another on non holidays as well. Anyway, for Easter we have an Easter egg hunt for my nices and nephews, some eggs contain money, and they love that. We have a lot of pies, brisket, chicken, burgers, steak, salad, and a lot more. It's good to gather and eat and just enjoy time together. I look forward to it.

We have always gone to my grandparents house after church, had a fancy half from the store meal, since my grandma hates cooking now, and then some kind of actually good dessert my family brought. This year I'm making a chocolate torte from a food network recipe. We don't really do anything with the Easter bunny, I always thought it was really silly when I was little because I never believed in any of those make believe characters. We had those chocolate eggs when I was little, but I think my sister is finally done with that whole thing, so no one will try to make me go looking for low quality chocolates and pretend to be excited about it. LOL, just hand the the Dagoba chai chocolate and forget the whole looking for it, waste of time, lets get to the good part. Our family is pretty low key when we celebrate, no noise, nothing too exciting, unfortunately there is often tension between myself and a couple other people and my mother and a couple other people whenever we are together, due to what the other two have done in the past and how they have treated us. Hopefully this year will be better.