Easter & Birthday Celebrations

Easter weekend was filled with fun events - starting with an outdoor "walk-through" event for Easter at the church.  They had sign-up times where you would join a group and walk through different stations at the church where they depicted different part of Jesus' life.  It was very well done!

Talking about baptism and John the Baptist and how it cleanses our sins away.

And in the middle was a left-over hopscotch game from a different day that Karis couldn't resist trying out. 

Nailing things we were thankful for to the cross. 

Kaleb was one of the soldiers guarding the tomb - he did a good job fainting dead away when Jesus rose again

Um, we found this odd creature as we went around -- something now quite right about this man's shirt!

And we found our sweet friend Londy!

On Easter Sunday, we had our family birthday celebration for the boys....and of course some Easter fun!

Because it was a birthday we had birthday donut towers instead of cake.  The boys went with Karis to pick them out with a variety.

We adore our little cousin Sadie, she is at such a sweet age - so while she was here for the birthday we did some fun things for Easter as well!

We started off with Easter egg decorating

And then while they were hard working on that, the men-folk went out and hid the eggs.  Amy followed them taking pictures so that we wouldn't forget where the eggs were.  We had a specific egg color for each kid so that they would all get the same amount....with one special egg that had some $$ in it!

Ready to hide!

And ready to hunt for them!

And they are off running!

Hee hee, there is one hidden in the very top part of the fountain for Zachary!

Exploring their treasures afterwards

We adore our little Sadie - reading a book with her

Every year Amy gets a special shirt for the kids' birthday - so that we can commemorate favorite colors/activities etc.  Kaleb loves himself some neon colors right now!

Goodness, I wish the years would stop flying by - these boys are so precious and we want to savor every minute with them.  Look at big they are now! 😥

A rarity - getting Zachary to sit down on the couch and snuggle with his mom!