Easter recap

You will probably all be sick of Easter pictures after this post, but I just had to put a few more on. The girls woke up Easter morning at their usual time (about 7:00) with Emily coming into our room. Bri woke up shortly after and they made their way to the dining room table where the Easter bunny had eaten the carrots, drank the milk, left a note (a note from Santa was a big hit over Christmas, and Emily wondered if the Easter bunny would be leaving one as well), as well as plenty of Easter goodies (all compliments of the grandparents.)

What better thing than a chocolate marshmallow egg at 7:00am? We were lucky to have my sister Jessie and her friend Jill over to share Saturday night and also most of Easter with us.

After a nice breakfast, we dyed Easter eggs. I used to love dying eggs when I was little, and we always tried to talk mom into giving us each tons of eggs to dye (maybe 2 dozen for each of us?)

Then it was time for an Easter egg hunt in the back yard.

After nap time, it was time to get dressed for church. Our church is adding another campus in Blaine, a neighboring suburb, so in preparation for that one opening, we are meeting Sunday nights to start preparing so that when the building is complete, a core group is ready to go! We are excited. Jeremy ushered again this weekend and luckily there were no geysers in the women's restroom.

We had a pretty low-key Easter this year but had fun as a family, even though mom was a bum and didn't even cook a nice Easter dinner. Oh well, no one really cared! What we did care about was remembering the true meaning of Easter. I've had a lot of pictures about Easter eggs and talked a lot about the Easter bunny, but at the forefront is our amazing Savior who loved us enough to die for us. And that power that raised him from the dead on Easter morning is the same power that you can have in your life today, bringing you peace, joy, and eternal security that you will someday be in heaven. Emily and Bri talk a lot about heaven and I tell them that if you love Jesus you will go to heaven someday. Do you love Jesus? Have you thanked him for the sacrifice he made for you?

Here is a final happy Easter from the girls: