Easter 2018

We had a nice Easter. We celebrated Easter with my family on March 31, which also happened to be my Dad's 67th birthday. My Mom's birthday was March 15, so we celebrated everything together. My sister and her family came to my parent's house and we had a nice time hanging out with having dinner. The kids colored Easter eggs, and the big kids (age 16 and 13) seemed to enjoy it as much as the little kids!

We had an Easter egg hunt outside and Molly thought it was soo funny that one of the eggs had been "hidden" on our van door handle. It was so funny to watch her and listen to her tell everyone about that egg! Cody also hid an egg up in a tree, so he had to climb the tree to get it down for us.

Easter Sunday was a cold day! It went from cloudy and 65 degrees on Saturday to cloudy and about 35 degrees with lots of wind on Sunday! We had a very nice Easter service at church. I just love Easter Sunday. I love singing songs about the resurrection. They are so touching and just seem to come alive with meaning on Easter, the day we remember that Jesus died a brutal death and rose again just for us. Our church had a big cross set up outside the entrance that you could decorate with flowers and then use as a photo backdrop. This was the neatest thing to me. This same cross was used at the Good Friday service where everyone nailed a nail to the cross...symbolic of Jesus dying for our sins. It's such a pretty picture to think about and see....the cross that held all of our sins now decorated with beautiful flowers...beauty from ashes. The decorated cross alone is such beautiful message!

The girls got a few presents in their Easter baskets and then we took pictures as best as you can with a three and four year old and no photographer. :)