Easter

Easter is my favorite holiday, at least I think so. It is all about redemption and the greatest love we could ever imagine. It is the reason we believe, the Resurrection, the ultimate hope. There is much less consumerism involved and seems to be less expectations to counter act in the culture. We often have a beautiful service, then fun with the family and one of my favorite holiday meals. It is simple and wonderful. This year Trudy, Brad's mom, came to stay with us so that was extra special. We had Brad's cousins for dinner and the kids had their traditional string hunt for their baskets. They love the hunt as much if not more than the baskets. It is fun making it a challenge to get to it, they complain and laugh and complain and laugh. We know they love it when we make it hard.

Jack pot, Kadie was so happy with the new set of Magic Tree House Audio books and Issie has her new leap frog video. (so she can start blending her sounds for reading- she is a nut at 2 1/2)

Jack was happy with the new Cold Play CD and a new soccer ball. Very little candy this year and no one even noticed, yipee!

Kadie's Easter Sunday Dress, she has tears in her eyes because she needed to take it off as we were headed outside. Such a girlie girl.

Issie in her Easter Dress. I have 7 pictures of her screaming and only one with here not so this is the best I can do. She looked so sweet, just did not want me to take a picture!

Egg masterpieces- just before we made them into Angel Eggs.

Our precious family. So much to be grateful for. Jack almost 11, Kadie 6 1/2, and Issie 2 1/2.

Somehow, we have no pictures of Trudy! She has a habit of dodging the camera, we need to be more diligent next time :).