Easter Weekend

Well, I've officially raided my children's Easter candy stash of any desirable dark chocolate, so I guess it's been a full week since we celebrated! We had a wonderful, yet busy, weekend. There was play time, family time, egg hunts, and of course the real reason - the celebration of our RISEN LORD JESUS! I'm so glad that my Jesus is alive and with me today. Without this truth my life would be a whole lot of crazy.

The night before Easter our church hosted a GLOW in the dark egg hunt. <> the other day I was at the park and somehow when I was talking to a neighbor I had just met we started talking about Bara. She told me that her family had been to our egg hunt, to which I responded that my husband was a pastor for Bara. THEN she asked me, "Oh was he the man in the light up green wig?" "Umm, YES!" Haha I guess that's how my man is known around these parts.

We had lots of old and new friends join us for the egg hunt. Thankfully another mom was able to get this quick pic before the crazy of the glow hunt began.

The Easter bunny gettin' his GLOW on. Eva knows that the Easter bunny is just fun dress up and she totally loves it. That's what happens when your dads up toting around the Easter bunny head in his backseat.

I stuck little man in the toddler bounce house for the first time and he loved it. The only one that squished him was Eva, and that could have happened on dry land.

Eva got her face painted for the first time!

On Sunday we went to Bara and celebrated the resurrection. Afterwards we had lunch with family at my parents' house.

She was the only big kid (does 4 years old count as big??) so she had one whole side of the yard to herself.

 We just plopped Jensen down with a dozen eggs that were filled with cheerios so he sat and ate them all up.

 This was my first time to fill Easter baskets for my kids and they were excited. Probably the biggest hit was the new snack cups...and the giant bottle of bubbles.

 Then we headed to Ryan's aunt and uncles' house to celebrate with his family. I think we were doing more hopping than the Easter bunny.

 Ryan's grandmother - Mamaw, with his mom and aunts, and all of the great grandchildren that were there.

 Ready to hunt again!

 I love this one because Jensen is just sitting there munching away while Eva is racing around behind him.

 Handsome like his Daddy.

Cousin love. So glad these little girls have each other.

 Mamaw, Nana, Mallory, and Eva

 My little Easter loves. They sure clean up nicely. I love their little faces.

 Kisses!

We had a wonderful day and returned home later, tired but full of love...and candy.