Jesus and the Bunny.

So I finally put two and two together. Thanks to our friend the internet, my mind has finally been enlightened. My question: "What does the Easter bunny have to do with Jesus?" Don't laugh! I'm thirty years old and I finally know the answer. So it appears that the Easter Bunny dates back to a geman, saxon tradition that had a hare(not a bunny) that would leave colorful and decorated eggs in the bonnets of all the good children during the first days of spring. Some where along the way it seems that this tradition merged with the resurrection of you know who.
(any futher clarification would be greatly appreciated, I'm not frangkepedia after all)