Happy Easter!

This year we had lots of fun celebrating Easter and the fact that our Lord is risen!  

On Friday night, we made "Resurrection Cookies" for the first time.  There are just a handful of ingredients, and each one represents an aspect of the story of Christ's death and resurrection.  Here, Samuel is beating the pecans, just like Jesus was beaten by the Roman soldiers after he was arrested.  

We also added salt (representing the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers), vinegar (what Jesus was given to drink on the cross), egg whites (representing life; that Jesus gave his life to give us life), and sugar (the sweet love Jesus has for us) to the mixing bowl, then after putting them in the oven Samuel used tape to "seal" the tomb, and we waited until morning.  

In the morning, he was happy to find his cookies were as hard as stone, just like the stone tomb Jesus was buried in.  When we opened the tomb (took a bite) we saw that the tomb (cookie) was empty!!!  Jesus has risen!  :)  

Saturday morning we met up with the Whites for an Easter Egg hunt.  Here are me & two of my beautiful sisters waiting in the long line before the hunt began.  :)  

All 6 cousins made it to the hunt this year!  :)  

Micah was up first... he found quite a lot of eggs (thanks big brother!) and seemed to really enjoy how they tasted...  

Samuel was so patient waiting in front of the sea of eggs, waiting for his turn to hunt!  

Samuel & Leia were thrilled with their basketfulls of eggs!  

Then we made it up to the Davidson's for Easter Sunday.  The night before Sammy had fun setting out carrots for the Easter Bunny...

And couldn't wait to find his Easter Basket(s!) the next morning!  

I love this photo of both boys discovering some fun goodies in their baskets.  

Our family of four on Easter morning.  Happy Easter!  

And one little shot of our crawling babe.  Such a cutie!