Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was beautiful here . . . I mean really beautiful. It was 85 degrees on Saturday and gorgeous all the other days. My kids even got a little sunburn the first day and I had to break out the sunblock for Saturday. From what I understand that weather is not normal for Buffalo in April, but we enjoyed every second of it and were thankful that it showed up for Easter weekend!

We live close to the community park--close as in walking distance. So we went to the egg hunt Saturday morning where the kids got to do a craft, see the Easter Bunny (although Jenna insists it wasn't the real Easter Bunny because she saw his tennis shoes poking out under his feet--smarty pants!), and hunt for the plastic eggs. We really enjoyed being there that morning. We saw people from church, dance class, Bible study, and people we've come to know from our frequent park trips. It was really nice.

The parents were instructed not to hunt eggs with the kids, so Nate let Abby go on her own and she ended up with zero eggs. She just isn't that aggressive and didn't push her way through the crowd to get the eggs. Thankfully, a nice lady noticed Abby crying after it was all over and threw some of her son's 20 eggs on the ground in front of her so that Abby could pick some up. Then she was a happy camper.

Happy Abby after she found her five eggs!

27 weeks pregnant

Proud of their loot!

Sweet Easter girls

Annual Easter picture

The best part of Easter is celebrating what Jesus did for us on the cross and this year, our weekend was full of conversations with the girls about how that all happened. They get confused about celebrating or remembering something (like Good Friday) and it actually happening. But the most precious statement came from Abby who, on our way home from Good Friday service, said something like, "You know . . . the Easter bunny isn't the most important part of Easter--Jesus is. Those guys were mean to him and he died, but don't worry, he will be alive on Easter." That was the absolute best part of Easter.

On a side note, we had a mild breakthrough in church this past weekend. We made it through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Services without me wanting to tear my hair out after trying to keep kids quiet and entertained in church. No one talked so loudly that they distrubed the others around them and no one pulled up their dress at the children's sermon. Evening services (Thursday and Friday) are not our strong points. I don't take the kids to Lenten or Advent services anymore because I ended up feeling like a crazy woman by the time it was done. But we made it this year. They both sat through the services and were pretty well behaved. And this is a breakthrough because I've been working on teaching the kids to sit in church for a long time. Three services in four days, two of which were evenings---small miracle!

I hope your Easter was as wonderful as ours was:)