Easter Fun!

So on Saturday our friends had set up an Egg Hunt at a local park, complete with games, way too many eggs full of candy, and a lot of our friends from church. The weather was beautiful and I'm pretty certain the adults enjoyed themselves as much as the kids! Then we did Easter dinner Sunday at Pete and Breanna's house with Kevin's dad as well. All in all, it was a great weekend. The girls looked so cute in their Easter dresses- thanks Aunt Bre and Uncle Pete! Now if I only knew what to do with all of the candy that is still laying around our house!

A Day at Home

Well despite the beautiful blue sky, today is freezing and windy, and with Rylin and I both struggling with allergeries, we are taking a lazy day and staying home. So what better to do than post some pictures for you and avoid doing housework! Here are some pictures of my girls a couple of weeks ago. We are still living in our "temporary" house (thank you Jesus!) and so I have unpacked very little, but we decided to get out the dress-up box and literally within 5 minutes they had tried on all of the clothes, ripped them off and thrown others on, over and over again! Sometimes it is a good thing to separate them from some of their toys because then when you get them back out, it's like they are new all over again! I was able to get more pics of Rylin then Kacia because Rylin needed to stay nearby for assistance!

Oh, and just for those of you wondering how I am doing on my coffee addiction, in the last month and a half, I can count on one hand (not even using all of the fingers!) how many "good" coffees I have had, 2 of which were brought to me by my very dear sister! I also realized that I was quite wrong on my Starbucks count, missing at least 5 - bringing the total to 12 - in our "small" town!!!

(We miss you Grandma! And we know you are missing Starbucks too (though not as much as you are missing us!), we'll have to go together when you get back!

At the Cross on Good Friday

At the Cross

I know a place

A wonderful place

Where accused and condemned

Find mercy and grace

Where the wrongs we have done

And the wrongs done to us

Were nailed there with Him

There on the cross

At the cross, He died for my sins

At the cross, He gave His life again

At the cross, He died for my sins

At the cross, He gave His life again

This song has been in my head since Bible Study yesterday, and though it seems so short and somewhat simple, its words have brought me healing and hope and gratitude as it continues to replay in my head. Oh how thankful I am for the cross and for my Christ who gave His life for me!

Today we have been attempting to focus on Good Friday- I'm trying to help my kids understand that Easter is not just a Sunday thing where you get candy and have egg hunts, but there is so, so much more to it than that. I got a really great kids book "What is Easter?" and we have been doing all of the fun activities- yes, but while doing so we have been discussing the true reason we can celebrate. We have made crosses out of play-dough, than this morning we had Breanna, Allie, Micheal, Alex and our friends Tiffany and Aden over to color eggs and make jelly bean bracelets. (However, the pack of 28 needles of varying sizes that I bought, didn't have an eye big enough for our bracelet thread, so we just ate a bunch and Rylin made a picture of the 3 crosses with jelly beans and glue.) It has been a good day so far. I really wanted Kacia to understand that although today is the day we honor Christ for dying on the cross it is still most definitely a day to celebrate and not to mourn, because what happened 3 days later? He rose again! We celebrate because Good Friday is not the end of the story! What an amazing Savior we serve!!