Easter!

We had a lovely Easter this year! It's my favorite holiday for so many reasons. I love how it's filled with hope. Hope in our salvation through Christ and His resurrection, hope in new life (flowers, bunnies, eggs), and hope in new beginnings. I also love Easter candy, decorations, egg hunts and the beauty of Spring time. This year we had pot luck and egg hunt at church on Palm Sunday, and the boys gathered a ton of eggs. The following Saturday we dyed some of our own eggs. The boys had a blast dipping their eggs into all the colors in rapid pace. We dyed 18 eggs in about 5 minutes flat.

 

On Easter Sunday, the boys received Easter baskets at breakfast, then we went to church as a family and enjoyed adding flowers to the cross during service. I love the picture of Jesus' sacrifice and death on the cross turning something awful into something so beautiful and filled with hope and joy. After church we had what was supposed to be a quick hunt for the eggs we dyed. However, Levi is very competitive and didn't take well to having a hard time finding some of the eggs his Dad hid. A few discussions and time outs later we headed over to my parents house.

There we shared a delicious meal prepared by my Mom followed by time with family, a cascarone war (more crying and fighting from Levi) and a wiffle ball game. Levi was on a roll of fit throwing and cried nearly the entire wiffle ball game about unfair outs, bad pitches, and basically any detail that didn't go exactly how he thought it should. Sheesh.

All that aside, it was a nice day with family. Thank you Lord for giving us hope and love, that's what Easter is all about.