Easter

We spent Easter weekend at home. My Army wife friend, Anna, and her two girls came on Saturday (to help me clean and organize!) and stayed the night. We got up Sunday morning and went to breakfast and Easter service at our church.

How cute are they????

Gracie (2), Grant (4), Brynna (1), Emma (4)

My little sweet peas!


We spent the afternoon at my brother Matt's (and Tiffany) house.
We had a yummy dinner, an egg hunt, and even got in a nap!


I was happy that our church did "resurrection eggs" with the kids. I explained the reason we celebrate Easter to the kids and we drew crosses or wrote JESUS on our eggs before we colored them. I DO NOT want our kids to think Easter is about a bunny that brings eggs and candy. There is nothing wrong with bunnies, or eggs, or candy but there is something heartbreakingly wrong when people place more importance on those things than on the resurrection of Jesus. We need to celebrate his power over death and the fact that we serve a LIVING God and have and eternal hope and ever present help!!!!!!


“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’”
— Mark 16 1-7