EASTER 2014

Easter is always one of my favorite holidays!  I just love the story behind it, and getting to teach my kids about Jesus and his resurrection!  We did 40 days of "Easter" devotionals with Caeden, one each night leading up to Easter.  It was fun getting to present the whole gospel to him, and he had lots of good questions.  You can see the wheels turning.  When we talked about Jesus' baptism, that led us to discussing what baptism is, in general.  Of course, since he hates going under water, his response was, "Mommy....I'm NEVER getting baptized!"  But I got to tell him about how Jesus lives in my heart and what that means.  He said, "Mommy, Jesus doesn't live in my heart yet."  So it was neat that he was comprehending enough of what we were saying, to come to that conclusion on his own.  This little man is smart, and we are praying that he comes to know Jesus at a young age.

But we also do more "secular" things on Easter too! ;)  A few nights before, we dyed Easter eggs as a family....as is our annual tradition!

Helping me stir the dyes

So proud of the egg she just made!

We also went to the Bentonville Easter Egg Hunt the day before Easter.  Caeden got to see the Easter Bunny....Callie was not a fan.  The actual hunt was chaotic....Let's just say we probably won't be back next year!

Easter morning they woke to find lots of goodies in their Easter baskets:

Then it was off to church in our "Easter Clothes!"

When we got home, Nonni & Grandpa had a surprise for Caeden & Callie!  There were 3 big blue eggs and 3 big pink eggs hidden in the front yard for them to find!  In each egg, were lots of big goodies!  They absolutely LOVED this!

After a big yummy lunch, we had our traditional Easter egg hunt with our dyed eggs!

And all that was left was napping, and playing with the Easter goodies.  HAPPY EASTER!