Easter/ Resurections Sunday 2012

 Easter/ Resurrection Sunday whatever you want to call it is the best day, because our family celebrates our Savior rising from the dead after dying on a cross for us and all of you (whoever you are)!


We had a week long celebration for Easter.  It is fun getting to experience holidays with our children.  They are so excited about it. And we are excited to share what a amazing thing our Savior did for us!  What a great reason to celebrate and enjoy family and fun activities!!

Jesus Has Risen

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.  The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.  He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”
 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples.  Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.  Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”  Matt 28:1-10



For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.   John 3:16



We made shaving cream dyed eggs.  It was a super cool project!  You place paint on a cookie sheet or some sort of flat surface that will clean easy after you are done.  put in it different areas of the surface.  Once you have several colors take a toothpick and swirl them around until you have the desired look. Take the card stock once you have cut it into whatever shape you want and put a layer of shaving cream. then carefully place the card stock shaving cream side down straight into the paint.  It turns out the best the less you move the card stock around.  Once you have the card stock on gently apply a little pressure to ensure all the sides are touching the paint.  Then lift as straight off as possible.  Let the shaving cream painted card stock sit for a few minutes.  Then scrape off the shaving cream- I have a squidgy for the shower so we used that.  The swirled paint remains with a nice smell of shaving cream.  We just "re-dipped" each egg after adding a little more paint and didn't redo the paint.  I would recommend starting fresh each time for the best effect, although I think all of ours turned out great. 

Easter Crafts with Landon and Arabella

The Main head quarters library had a children's story time event  of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  so I took the kids to it.  The ladies who did it did a super job.  The girls really got into it so the kids did too.  The crafts seemed to interested both Landon and Arabella which is always a plus.

Story time and Puppet Play: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

We took the kids to the Alachua County Egg Drop.  It was a neat spin on the typical egg drop.  A helicopter dropped eggs to start the hunt for each age group.  Landon was super sweet, as he general is, and made sure his sister collected some eggs.  There was some fierce competition in the 1-3 year old egg hunters, which is not really some thing Josh and I look forward too.  Landon did great and we were very proud of his attitude and behavior.  The kids got to meet the big pink Easter bunny and do some other fun games and things.  Afterward Josh took us to a restaurant he had been wanting to take us too for a while.  We ended the morning by stopping by Hitchcock's the local grocery store.  It was a Saturday well spent ;)

Josh, Sally, Landon and I dyed eggs for Easter.  It was Landon's first time.  Arabella wasn't really interested in any of it.  Landon loved having colored eggs to eat.  Bella, a big lover of eggs also enjoyed the hard boiled eggs but I think she really didn't care about the color. 

Dying Easter Eggs

Sunday before going to service we had the kids get their Easter baskets (we had intended on doing this Saturday morning but forgot due to a  busy day and a late evening the day before).  Landon got a car, a growing insect, some pairs of Sponge Bob character socks and candy.  Landon helped pick Bella's goodies out which were dress up shoes, a necklace with a Disney princess on it and candy.  We also had several egg hunts in our house through out the week.  Some were just for fun and some I used to help with school.  I hid letters in the eggs and had Landon name the letter and place it on a picture which started with that letter.

Happy Easter Baskets!

After Sunday service, Sally came over for lunch.  She took some family pictures for us as well.  We had a super day!

Resurrection Sunday with family!