Easter Celebration

 It was a perfect Easter Sunday. The weather was wonderful and we were with family and able to meet together in church. That's all we needed this year! Mom had so many varieties of daffodils to decorate the table.

 

After the adults stretched out dessert as long as possible, the men hid Easter eggs in the back yard while the children waited on the front porch. And an aunt (me) made the cousins take a picture together. Look at these big kids!

I missed getting a picture of Anna hunting eggs, but I did get one of her in her Easter dress. She could hardly wait to wear this dress.

I think all of us realize that every holiday with Grandad is a gift that we no longer take for grated. He sat on the deck and enjoyed watching the children look for eggs.

Isaiah and Ezra sorted their candy by type and then did some serious trading. Actually all of the children were making trading deals. Grandma had asked each of them for their favorite candy, all of which were found in the eggs. Naturally, then, everyone was trying to trade for their favorite. It was fun and it continued into the next day at our house!

Before church we got a family picture. The colors were not planned! lol.

Isaiah was upset that he didn't have his best funny face ready for the goofy picture...so he got his own silly picture.

Since we have church in the evening, our Easter Sunday was topped off with church. Easter music is just the best. Aliza, Renee and Anna have been working on a worship dance that they prepared for Easter. They did such a nice job and I was proud of them for being willing to try something new and outside of their comfort zone. Dad preached, probably, his most memorable Easter sermon where he dresses up and tells the Easter story in first person from the point of view of Peter. No Bible, no notes--it's all from memory--and really draws the audience into the story as if they were sitting and listening to an eyewitness account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Communion finished off the service.

 It was a big day and I came home with a heart full of gratitude for the sacrifice that Jesus made by coming to earth as a man and laying down his life as a sacrifice for my sin so that I can have a relationship with God and spend eternity in heaven.