Easter, 2008

Easter Sunday dawned bright and beautiful this morning. It was a bit cold, but warmed up throughout the day. Everyone looked so nice this morning for church. We had a wonderful church service celebrating the Resurrection. Paul brought a powerful message on the people for whom Easter is for. There was a sweet spirit this morning as well as a full house. After church, we went to Paul's parents house for a delicous Easter meal, after which Ellie celebrated her birthday with Nana and Poppy and Aunt Sherry and Uncle Phil. Then the adults went outside to hide the Easter eggs for the egg hunt. My mom started having egg hunts for us when we were little, and continues to this day. I remember hunting Easter eggs when I was in college! The reason we loved to hunt eggs was because there was money in them. My kids are the same way and every one loves the Easter egg hunt. Samuel had a fun time this year finding the eggs. We came home and all crashed. We were up late last night and up early this morning so every one of us were tired. Even Baby Ben took a nap so I could sleep. We got up later and hid the Easter baskets and the kids found them and had fun playing outside with the bubbles, frisbees, boomerangs and jump ropes.

It was a nice day, and we are so blessed. Blessed to be able to celebrate the Resurrection with family and friends.