Easter!!!

I realize that Easter has already come and gone, but I wanted to share some pictures with everyone. We were blessed to have Grandma and Grandpa King come to visit for Easter this year! They drove up from Missouri (leaving 60 degree weather) up to Minnesota in blizzard conditions. It snowed all day Good Friday and I think we had 4-6 inches of snow. And, yes, it flurried Easter Sunday. Although the weather outside was not what we were used to experiencing on Easter, the church looked beautiful! Here are a couple of pictures of the Easter lillies.


We celebrated Jesus' resurrection with two church services. Easter sunrise at 7:00 and Easter service at 10:00 in the morning with breakfast served by the church's youth in between services. Our family all worshipped at the early service. It was such a blessing to have family to sit with at Easter. Thanks again Grandma and Grandpa King for watching our big boy while Mommy sang! What hope God gave us in His Son at Christmas! And what hope Christ gave us through His death and resurrection! Our relationship with God is no longer broken. We have been given the undeserved gift of hope. The hope of spending eternity with our Father in heaven! He has risen! He has risen indeed! Alleluia!

Our big boy took at 20 minute nap on Grandpa at the end of the breakfast and then he was up and ready to go when we got home. So, we decided to use this time for his first egg hunt at home. Grandma and I had dyed a dozen eggs the day before and we helped Benjamin find two. He did a great job! He found the first egg, grabbed it, and sat down to crawl towards the next one. In the midst of crawling for egg number 2, the first egg cracked. This was a shocker. He stopped, momentarily looked like he would cry, and then refocused on egg number 2. He found the second egg and broke the shell of that one too! Oh well. That's the way it goes when you crawl around everywhere (but he's getting awful close to try walking without help - Don't worry, we'll let you know when it happens!). After finding the eggs, we looked in our Easter basket and watched Veggie Tales "An Easter Carol". What a joyous and blessed Easter!

We also sported our Cardinals outfit on Easter. Go Cardinals!!!!