Happy Easter

Hadley often asks me which is the most important holiday, Christmas or Easter?  I love getting to talk to her about celebrating the birth of Christ and then celebrating his resurrection.  There is a popular christian song right now that she loves to sing the chorus to.  

We believe in God the Father

We believe in Jesus Christ

We believe in the Holy Spirit

And he's given us new life

We believe in the crucifixion

We believe that He conquered death

We believe in the resurrection

And He's comin' back again, we believe

Yes, we certainly do believe and that's why we celebrate Easter.  I loved the kids in their shades of baby blue this year.  This was Canaan's last time to don knee socks (sniff, sniff) and I'm really struggling with that.  He's my baby y'all.  The kids loved finding their baskets of goodies left by the Easter bunny.  Hadley got the collection of American Girl DVD's and she is in love with Felicity.  I watched Kit Kittredge with my students at school recently and fell in love with it.  I foresee family movie nights involving these DVD's very soon.

After a wonderful morning of worship, we headed to Auburn for lunch at Nana and Grandaddy's house.  We were blessed with a gorgeous Easter Sunday, so I took some pictures of the kids by the fish pond.

Canaan's fresh boo-boo was still hurting him but we tried to keep ointment on it when we could wrestle him down.

Cousins Amelia and Jack were in from Evansville and Hadley had so much fun feeding fish and playing paper dolls with Amelia.

No trip to Grandaddy's is complete without a ride on the golf cart.  Good thing we didn't have any more great-grandkids there at the time because there's no way they could have all fit on there.

Egg hunt number 3 proved to be just as exciting as the first two.  Hadley's tutu looked like it had eggs on it and one time Canaan tried to take one of the pom poms off of it.  He didn't understand why it wouldn't come off her skirt.

Later that afternoon, we headed to Gamaliel to Ma and Papa's house for, you guessed it, another egg hunt and meal.  Aunt Sheryl had placed lots of quarters in eggs so Hadley was thrilled to get money; a nice change from all the candy since this was egg hunt #4 after all.

Our kids headed home that evening quite a bit richer and all hyped up on sugar.  Although our Easter Sunday was busy and entailed lots of driving, being with our families and celebrating our risen Savior made all that worthwhile.  Happy Easter!