Easter

Some of Caleb's loot- we try our best to keep the candy volume down and the message of Easter included!

Easter morning before church

We had a great Easter! The weather was beautiful (no snow!). The kids woke up to very full Easter baskets, so of course they had chocolate bunnies and jelly beans for breakfast (isn't that what all kids have for breakfast on Easter morning?). A very short time later, they were eating more candy from the eggs they collected during the Helicopter drop Easter egg hunt at church. It's always fun to see thousands of candy-filled eggs fall from the sky!

After an awesome church service and lunch, the kids were cut off from their candy, so we could enjoy a yummy Easter dinner with Grandma and Grandpa.
Favorite Easter memory from this year?

The song playing is the song they sang for closing at church today. Throughout the song, our 2 girls and one of their friends from church sang at the top of their lungs and did all of the motions that go with it (they learned these in kids worship). It was so moving to me to watch their joy in God's love. How awesome that Christ died for all of us!?! The icing on the cake is that our kids are excited about it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C's First Easter

Oops! I just realized these ears have pink bows on them!

It's almost the end of C's firsts... his birthday is this Wednesday, so Easter was the second to last of his firsts and C had a great first Easter! Our church dropped the Easter eggs out of a helicopter again this year, so that was the highlight of the day. C was terrified and thrilled all at the same time to be so close to a helicopter. And getting to eat so much candy all in one day was most certainly a close second! For me, the highlight was that C understood in an almost 3 year-old way what Easter is all about. He informed me several times yesterday that "Jesus is alive!".

Praise God for that!

C watching the "heh-clopper" with a mix of emotions

The Easter Bunny brought 4 Easter baskets this year!

Sadie wanted a turn wearing the bunny ears

Ash and Beans

Look closely and you will see the guy leaning out of the helicopter and dumping the eggs!

Post backyard egg hunt

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! He is risen!
Happy Easter to you all! We were greeted this morning with snow! The flakes were huge and it was beautiful!

We just got back from Easter service at church, which was followed by an Easter egg hunt. The kids had a blast.

The coolest thing...the eggs were dropped by a helicopter!

Great idea, Pastor Dale!

Now the kids are gorging themselves with candy and Easter eggs, of course :0)