What a wonderful Easter for so many reason... Most importantly the reason why we even celebrate Easter.. because " IT IS FINISHED" my Savior conquered death once and for all.... He Has RISEN as He SAID!!!" Christianity it isn't the teaching of Jesus but it is what Jesus did that is the bases of Christianity. He came down from heaven and became a man yet at the while still being God. He experienced all the pain and sorrow that we experience yet without sin because when we are faced with a temptation we can only handle it so long and then we surrender to it apart from Christ.. Yet He never surrendered to sin... So he experienced its pain so much more than we can imagine..... All this for ME... He was beaten, mocked, spat on, and hung on the cross as a criminal .. with Me on His mind... He was taking the punishment for MY sin... my anger, impatience with my children, my self serving desires/life. His blood was shed for me so that I might be forgiven. Hallelujah what a Savior!!! And we know that what He did was accepted by God because He was risen and defeated our greatest enemy... death... forever separation from God.... And because He had risen as He said... I can have the hope of heaven... Living forever without sin or sickness with my SAVIOR who is right now sitting at the right hand of God!!! What a wonderful thing we celebrate at Easter!!!
We got the privileged of celebrating Easter not once but twice.. once last week with my family.. and this week with Mat's parents.. Here is the photo view of our celebration!!!
Watching the kids on the egg hunt
Look at all those eggs
I love my Big Man.. he was so proud of his find!!
She got a little help with the eggs above 2 feet :)
Oh how I love my egg hunting kiddos him :)
She was determined and on a mission.. Collect the eggs with candy in them.. and throw the ones with money on the ground.. Who needs money anyways.. She got so good that she would just shake them and know which was which and then toss the quarters on the grass :)
After a delicious lunch we went for a walk on a beautiful country road.. it was quite eventful... we found 3 snakes...
Looking a a snake that was stuck in some kind of pipe
My CRAZY brave not scared of creatures like her sister sister picked up the snake that Kaitlyn stepped on.. It ended up peeing on her and it smelt awful!!
Our family minus the picture taker (Mat)
Now our family Minus photographer (Mom:)
AWWWW :)
Yeah not sure why he was the one riding the stroller :)
On Easter morning I made a scavenger hunt ( thanks to my friend for the link to a wonderful website for this fun idea) for their Easter baskets. Each clue lead to another clue which eventually lead to the prize... their baskets!! I am going to try and do this every year now.. it was a fun way to extend the process !
The kids were so surprised when Mimi and Papa showed up at the door Saturday afternoon. Since then our days have been filled with tons of fun!! Hence the lack of time spent blogging!
Daddy reading the next "CLUE"
The goods... WAY TOO MUCH CANDY was consumed for which we paid for later that afternoon and the following day. I learned my lesson for next year... NO MORE CANDY it isn't worth major change that takes place in my dear children's personalities.
Putting his change in his bank!!!
I will be posting more pictures of our adventures with Mimi and Papa this week! But for now it is bed time... Good Night
