Happy Easter

Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!
Matthew 24: 5-6
 The tomb is empty! While we'll have lots of fun celebrating Easter today with fluffy dresses, egg hunts, and way too much candy, we are most of all thankful for the new life we are able to celebrate. As Rebekah's artwork describes, praise God ~ the grave could not hold Jesus.


Some Easter morning family pics...
 Doesn't it figure that the best family photo we have taken in quite a while would happen precisely when I figured it would be okay to skip putting my makeup on until the drive to church :-)


 Every year, the girls always look so cold in our early morning Easter pictures.


 Warmer inside, and more awake after a morning at church.




After church we drove down to my parent's house to enjoy Easter lunch/dinner. My mom had set up a cute Easter Egg Hunt for the girls in their yard.
 Alyssa ran around the yard so excited!! Just when I think she might be out-growing the excitement of certain traditions she proves me wrong.


 Emma thought it was funny that she found an egg in this tree ornament's mouth.


 My mom hid some of the eggs "less well" or at least closer to the ground for Kamele's benefit. We had also instructed A and E that the eggs that were pretty much out in the open should be left for the little one. About three fourths of the way through the hunt, my mom peeked in Rebekah's bag and she had probably three times as many eggs as the older girls :-) All eggs were fair game at that point!


 The girls stopped running around the yard long enough to pose for a pic with Grandpa.


 Some of the Easter eggs were filled with candy or coins, but some just had numbered slips of paper in them. The numbers corresponded to cute gifts like this sidewalk chalk, pretty socks, memory games, and a few awesome books. The girls loved it! Thank you, Grandma for setting up such a cool egg hunt for the girls!


 
Happy Easter!