He Is Risen - Easter 2015

What a beautiful Easter Sunday we had here!

It was a busy morning with last minute Easter dinner prep, getting boys up, fed and dressed, taking pictures, showing them their Easter baskets and taking more pictures. Notice I said we showed them their Easter baskets but no touching! Y'all, their outfits were too cute. I couldn't have sticky jelly beans and chocolate smears all over them before we even went to church! Thomas and I talked to the boys about the meaning of Easter while they ate breakfast and they were on board with it. ;)

The Easter bunny came for all 5 of us!

Ryan

William

Stokes

With their Easter baskets...

All 3 of my boys! They just looked too cute!!!

We made it to church (boys in the nursery) and were so glad that we did. As expected, it was a beautiful service and the music was wonderful. There was just an overwhelming sense of joy and celebration that we could feel throughout the congregation. We loved hearing the Good News.  We surprised MaSha by having an Easter lily donated in her honor, and we got one in memory of my mom. We got to take our beautiful Easter lilies home with us after the service.

After church, we came back to the house for lunch. While I was finishing up the meal preparation, MaSha and Thomas helped entertain the boys and they finally got to play with their Easter baskets. They had a big time. We needed something for them to do since it was past their normal lunch time and they had skipped their morning nap. We were probably thisclose to a meltdown but they hung in there.

Our Easter eggs we dyed

Post-church family picture...at least 2 of us were smiling :)

MaSha with her grandsons

MaSha and Ryan

William playing with his new shoes

Showing Ryan his Easter basket

Trying to entertain while waiting on lunch

Going for it

We didn't do a super fancy lunch, but I tried to make it special for Easter. MaSha brought spiral ham and watergate salad and we had asparagus, hash brown casserole and rolls. MaSha gave up wine and sweets for Lent so we made sure to have some wine and a decadent dessert (turtle brownies, vanilla bean ice cream and hot fudge topping) on hand and ready for her! Lunch was great - very delicious and I ate a little too much!

I had super girlie wine for MaSha and me -
pink, bubbly Moscato. :)

The boys were ready for lunch!

Table set and ready for food!

These two were pooped after such a big morning without a nap and having a late lunch and then they went down for their afternoon nap an hour later than normal. Keep in mind that we are very schedule oriented, to keep life as easy as possible, so although it doesn't sound like a huge deal, we broke several scheduling points on Easter. Even after Ryan woke up a few hours later, these two were still zonked out!

Sleepy William

He sleeps in the strangest positions

How is this even comfortable?!?!

We're humbled and so thankful that God gave his only son to die for our sins. And when Jesus came back to life on the third day it was true that the world would never, ever be the same.