Category Archives: Easter

Dying Easter Eggs

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Our annual egg dying with Grams this year was more than just trying to keep egg dye from getting everywhere!

Little Bug is older now and she wasn’t quite the whirlwind she has been in year’s past!

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Sweet Pea was content to sit here an stir her egg for the longest time!

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Sisters hard at work!

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Still stirring!

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It is so fun to have these traditions with my girls!

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We all had so much fun!

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We went to my grandmother’s church’s Egg Hunt and Little Bug was thrilled to see the Easter Bunny. She went right up to him and gave him a big hug and then smiled for a picture!

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Easter and April

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April is here and it is going to be one.busy.month. for our family!

We close on the house later this week, this weekend is going to be spent painting the new house and packing is happening a little each night around here.

I have some posts ready to go, but after that, I am just not sure how much blogging I’m going to do this month while we move.

We had a wonderful Easter. Little Bug understands more and more about the death and resurrection of Jesus and it is amazing to see her connect the dots on this in her own little mind.

She has said things like: I am sad that Jesus died. Why did he die? Why were they so mean to Jesus? I don’t want him to have to die!

Yesterday at our family Easter dinner, Aunt Amanda (who is Little Bug’s Sunday School teacher) told us that they asked the kids in church yesterday if they ever do things that are bad. Little Bug’s response? She said, “No.” Hmmmm.

We’ve had many good conversations about the “whys” and “hows” of Jesus’s death and resurrection. We have the Easter Egg set that tells the story of Easter and Little Bug has loved these this year. The last egg is empty because Jesus’s tomb was empty!

It is so amazing to be at this point with Little Bug in her realizing the Christmas and Easter Story and what that means to her life! This year, she even connected the two stories realizing that Jesus was born as a baby to die for our sins as a man. And then He rose again three days later!

Easter dinner was at my parents’ house this year and after naptime we had an Easter Egg hunt in the front yard.

Our Family of Four – Easter 2013

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With Grandma and Grandpa.

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With Grams and Gramps.

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My babies are getting SO BIG.

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Sweet Pea loved hunting eggs!

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And so did this little girl!

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Little Bug’s Easter Egg Hunt

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As you know, Sweet Pea and I missed out on the family Easter dinner and Egg Hunt, but I asked my mom to take pictures of Little Bug!

Ready to hunt some eggs!

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Found her first egg!

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I can tell she had so much fun finding eggs.

This picture is blurry but I love this picture of Little Bug walking with her big cousin, Kolby. She LOVES him and he is so sweet to her.

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I can remember like yesterday looking for eggs here with her at her 1st Easter.

So happy to have these pictures of my Little Bug.

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I still haven’t dressed them up for “Easter pictures”, but I will!! Day 12. I have something to be grateful for though…I am thankful the blow out diapers (like this morning’s) have been few and far between. Hopefully only two more days!

How Great is the Love God has for Us: Remembering 4/9/09

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By the end of the day yesterday, I was just down. Sweet Pea didn’t seem to be improving (I am taking her to the doctor this morning), Dave and Little Bug were headed off to the family Easter dinner and Egg Hunt and I was sad that I couldn’t post a cute Easter picture of my babies on Facebook like everyone else. Smile

I refused to allow myself to stay “down” because I kept reminding myself way worse things could be happening to my family and a virus isn’t the end of the world. Even if it is the second stomach bug to hit my family in less than a month. (I STILL can’t get over that!)

So after the family left for Easter dinner, Sweet Pea and I “had church” together! I got my laptop and we sat in the rocker singing and listening to many Easter songs on YouTube! Amazing how much songs and singing can lift your spirits just like that. Sweet Pea lay in my lap listening the whole time. It turned out to be a very special moment for me.

While singing, I realized what tomorrow (now today) is: April 9th.

The day that changed the course of my life forever back in 2009.

It was the turning point in my walk through infertility. The day God had planned all along to turn our tears of sorrow into tears of joy, our mourning into dancing.

It was the day we learned of our Little Bug.

Forty-eight days later, I became a mother.

And I have never been the same since.

I was overcome with emotion as I sat with my youngest daughter singing about what Jesus did for us on the cross.

Our God is so faithful!!!

It is good to have these moments where I am deeply reminded of ALL that Christ has done for me – because I deserve none of it – yet in His great love and mercy He has blessed me abundantly in this life.

There will never be an April 9th where I won’t remember what began on that day in the year 2009.

My rescue from infertility and the start of my role as mother – a role I had longed to play since I was but a little girl myself.

I love my little girls with all my heart. I cannot imagine loving them more, but I know I will because love multiplies with time.

How GREAT is the love God has for us.

Easters in the past

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I know there are much worse things in life than a sick baby who WILL recover with time, but at the same time, it is sad to me that it is Sweet Pea’s first Easter and she is sick. I am very sad that Sweet Pea and I will miss out on our traditional Easter dinner and Egg Hunt at Dave’s parents’ house.

So…I’ve gone back and just looked at previous years and I thought I would post some here while Sweet Pea sleeps.

Little Bug’s 1st Easter – 2010

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Easter 2011

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This year’s pictures will just have to be late!

Happy Easter!

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We are stuck at home this Easter Sunday, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be remembering what Easter is all about!

HE IS RISEN!!!!

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Yesterday, Dave and Little Bug made a run to the store for some things I needed to try and treat Sweet Pea’s rash.

While checking out a woman started talking to Little Bug and asked her, “Is the Easter bunny coming to visit you tomorrow?”

Little Bug just simply said, “No.” (Dave and I haven’t discussed whether we will do Easter baskets with our kids, or not, so Little Bug had no clue what she was talking about.)

The woman kept talking to Little Bug and then when they were about to walk away the woman said, “I bet the Easter Bunny IS coming to see you tomorrow!!!”

And Little Bug said, “I bet he will not!”

Happy Easter!!!

And remember, because He is risen, the trials of our life are temporary and the battle has already been won!

(Scroll down for a Sweet Pea update)