Easter Weekend

I really love Easter. As new life starts to grow in the springtime, it's such a great reminder of the new life we have through His death and resurrection.

We keep Easter really simple. We like to do the egg hunt at church and then just spend time with family the rest of the weekend.

Complete chaos ensued as the children were released to find the eggs after the gospel presentation. It only took about 10 minutes for them all to be found.

They were allowed to find up to 40 eggs each, but I know we didn't get that many and still had enough candy to last us the rest of the year! (Ok so maybe the candy would last a whole year if I had more self-control.)

You can see how excited they were!

You'd think this little one had never enjoyed chocolate before...

The weather was nice enough to get out for a bit before family came over that evening.

If it were up to my kids, they would never come inside.

If I got to ride in the wheelbarrow I probably wouldn't want to come inside either :)

I think the kids did a good job at coloring eggs, not too many ended up cracked.

Evangeline is always surprising us. She decided to hang out in the bathroom and once we realized where she went, she had filled the sink with water and soap and decided to wash her hair.

She looked a little terrified that we were all standing in the doorway laughing and taking pictures. There is never a dull moment when you're a parent!

We spent Resurrection Sunday  with AJ's family. I realized a few minutes after we left  for church that morning that I forgot my camera at home :( Thankfully his parents were able to snap a quick picture on their phone before the kids changed out of their clothes for nap time.

Ari's memory verse for that week was Romans 10:9 "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."  We like to keep Easter simple because salvation is simple. We want our children to really understand the work that Jesus did on the cross, that He did all the work and there's nothing we can do to earn it. We spent lots of time studying the events that lead up to Jesus' death on the cross and what it meant that He was raised from the dead. We serve a living God- a God who wants to be a part of our life so much that He sent His son to die so that we could spend eternity with Him. Now that truly is a gift!