Oh the number of times I have heard Here Comes Peter Cottontail the past few weeks from the two sweet little voices that fill my house. But as my short time as an oncology nurse taught me, I am so thankful that they are healthy and are able to sing at the top of their lungs - okay well not always in the moment but I am when I step back from the craziness of our day to day life. :)
As each holiday approaches, I always have these grand ideas of the fun activities for us to do as a family in preparing for the celebration like the Thanksgiving Tree that turns into Jesse Tree at Christmas (that did not get made in time for either holiday this year) or the little devotion cards that coincides with the Jesus Storybook Bible for Easter (that didn't get printed off because we were out of printer paper and I never remembered to get any before Easter).
So I decided I would have to let that go and would use what we already had ready to go at home and do things that are already part of our normal routine (and hopefully as our children continue to get older, I will have time to do those other activities). So we brought out the Resurrection Eggs that Chris' mom had gotten for us a few years ago. These have been so great - and I will say I even learned somethings reading the story that goes along with them. I would highly recommend them to anyone that does not have them. And the other thing we did to teach Maddie about why we celebrate Easter is we sang the Power of the Cross every night before she went to bed. I've include the lyrics below. Its one of my favorite songs!
The Power of the Cross
Oh, to see the dawn
Of the darkest day:
Christ on the road to Calvary.Tried by sinful men,
Torn and beaten, then
Nailed to a cross of wood.
CHORUS
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us;
Took the blame, bore the wrath—
We stand forgiven at the cross.
Oh, to see the pain
Written on Your face,
Bearing the awesome weight of sin.
Ev'ry bitter thought,
Ev'ry evil deed
Crowning Your bloodstained brow.
Now the daylight flees;
Now the ground beneath
Quakes as its Maker bows His head.
Curtain torn in two,
Dead are raised to life;
"Finished!" the vict'ry cry.
Oh, to see my name
Written in the wounds,
For through Your suffering I am free.
Death is crushed to death;
Life is mine to live,
Won through Your selfless love.
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Son of God—slain for us.
What a love! What a cost!
We stand forgiven at the cross.
As each holiday approaches, I always have these grand ideas of the fun activities for us to do as a family in preparing for the celebration like the Thanksgiving Tree that turns into Jesse Tree at Christmas (that did not get made in time for either holiday this year) or the little devotion cards that coincides with the Jesus Storybook Bible for Easter (that didn't get printed off because we were out of printer paper and I never remembered to get any before Easter).
So I decided I would have to let that go and would use what we already had ready to go at home and do things that are already part of our normal routine (and hopefully as our children continue to get older, I will have time to do those other activities). So we brought out the Resurrection Eggs that Chris' mom had gotten for us a few years ago. These have been so great - and I will say I even learned somethings reading the story that goes along with them. I would highly recommend them to anyone that does not have them. And the other thing we did to teach Maddie about why we celebrate Easter is we sang the Power of the Cross every night before she went to bed. I've include the lyrics below. Its one of my favorite songs!
The Power of the Cross
Oh, to see the dawn
Of the darkest day:
Christ on the road to Calvary.Tried by sinful men,
Torn and beaten, then
Nailed to a cross of wood.
CHORUS
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us;
Took the blame, bore the wrath—
We stand forgiven at the cross.
Oh, to see the pain
Written on Your face,
Bearing the awesome weight of sin.
Ev'ry bitter thought,
Ev'ry evil deed
Crowning Your bloodstained brow.
Now the daylight flees;
Now the ground beneath
Quakes as its Maker bows His head.
Curtain torn in two,
Dead are raised to life;
"Finished!" the vict'ry cry.
Oh, to see my name
Written in the wounds,
For through Your suffering I am free.
Death is crushed to death;
Life is mine to live,
Won through Your selfless love.
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Son of God—slain for us.
What a love! What a cost!
We stand forgiven at the cross.
We had a great Easter filled with sweet memories and Easter Egg Hunts! It started with Maddie's class Easter Party on Thursday, which was the party I had signed up to help with. I said I would do the sweet, so of course I started searching Pintrest for a cute idea. Here are the bunny cupcakes:
Not quite as cute as the ones on pintrest, but cute enough!
Their tables with the crafts ready to go...
Her class before the Egg Hunt.
The Egg Relay
Maddie with her friend Caroline. They have been inseparable for the past two years; I don't know what they are going to do without each other next year!
Friday morning we had Emalyn's playgroup Easter Egg Hunt.
And that afternoon after naps, they had a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt on the street behind us.
Not the cutest picture of Maddie, but sadly the best of the 3 I took. This is her with Margaret Moore who lives the street behind us. They have two little girls the same age as ours and are about to move. We are going to miss having them right behind us!
Emalyn picked up one egg, opened it, saw that there was candy, and spent the rest of the time unwrapping her chocolate egg!
Saturday we had an Egg Hunt at Mimi's and GrandD's
Daddy lifted her up to reach on in the tree!
By this egg hunt, she had gotten the hang of it!
Out of the blue last week, Emalyn said "I miss my mae-mae." And we turned around taking the picture of the whole crew and Emalyn was just loving on Macie. She holds a special place in both of my girls hearts.
Easter morning, trying out their new backpacks from their Easter Baskets!
After church, we went to my Aunt and Uncles house for lunch and egg hunt for the little ones.
Miss Caroline!
My girls and my cousins' little girls waiting for the egg hunt to begin.
Finally a family picture on Easter!
Then it was home for naps, and to Lee Anne's Easter night for dinner.
Sadly I erased all the rest of the pictures from that night.,.., on accident! But they had so much fun having an Easter Egg hunt just for the two of them!
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