The Saturday before Easter we spent with my family in Woodstown. Here, the kids are getting ready to go out for the annual egg hunt.
Andy snuck Lizzie out a minute early to try to let her find an egg before the bigger kids and she just kept walking right past them :-) She was just happy to be outside with the wind blowing her hair! She thinks that's so funny!
Jon filling up his basket
Natalie pausing for a picture
I love this picture of Lizzie holding onto the big tree, wind blowing her hair, big smile on her face!
Jake and David racing around for eggs
Gabrielle happy she found one on the firepit bricks
Aunt Cheryl got both David and Jon these firefighter outfits for their birthdays(they weren't able to make it to Jon's party, so they gave him his gift today)
This is Sunday morning at out house. Lizzie found an egg in Jake's shoe...the first egg of the day!
Jake showing his find
Jon, in his Christmas pjs, showing his eggs
All of us dressed in our Sunday best before church. I think it's impossible to get a nice picture of all of us smiling, not squirming or making funny faces, but hey, this isn't too bad :-)
The five of us on the couch after church. The funny faces are starting to emerge and Lizzie's obviously exhausted and in need of a nap by this point in the day.
Our friend, Brian, and his daughter, Brooklyn, came with us to church and stayed for lunch afterward at our house. We were happy to have them. Unfortunately, Marie was out-of-town.
Mommom and Popsy and the kidsI forgot to get my camera out, but we were thankful Aunt Kimmy and our neighbors, Al and Sandy joined us for Easter dinner, as well.
As much fun as we have doing all the egg hunts, opening Easter basket goodies and having wonderful get-togethers with family and friends, it's important to reflect on why we really celebrate this most holy day.
(click on songs #3 and #2)
(click on songs #3 and #2)
"Amazing Love"
I'm forgiven because you were forsaken.
I'm accepted. You were condemned.
I'm alive and well. Your spirit is within me
because you died and rose again.
Amazing love, how can it be
that you my king should die for me?
Amazing love, I know it's true
and it's my joy to honor you
in all I do to honor you.
You are my king
Jesus, you are my king.
"In Christ Alone"
In Christ alone my hope is found;
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This cornerstone, this solid ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My comforter, my all in all—
Here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone, Who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save.
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied;
For ev'ry sin on Him was laid—
Here in the death of Christ I live.
There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain;
Then bursting forth in glorious day,
Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory,
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me;
For I am His and He is mine—
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.
No guilt in life, no fear in death—
This is the pow'r of Christ in me;
From life's first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home—
Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand.
The boys making music by shaking cables hooked to percussion instruments in the top of the tree
The three of them in the garden, aka: the mud hole (literally, mud hole. Before all the rain, the boys had been digging for dinosaur bones in the garden and made a huge hole which, of course, filled with water!)
Yup, she's a walkin'!!! You can see, she was just as happy to get dirty as the boys :-)
Oh my goodness!
Good teamwork, guys!
