Easter Sunday

Happy Easter!  What a glorious day to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior!  Being at a new church this year, we were able to embrace some new and meaningful traditions.  At the end of the Good Friday Service, the church went completely dark, and even the Christ candle which was up at the front was taken out of the church.  The kids wanted to know why it went dark and what it all meant.  What a great teaching moment for them!!  Then, our church also does an Easter Vigil on Saturday night.  The service actually starts outside around a fire, and the light is brought back into the church!  Again, what a great visual for the kids!  This morning, after the service there was a brunch at church followed by a golden Easter egg hunt!  It was a fun celebration for the entire church!

It actually rained during the egg hunt, but it did not stop the kids one bit!

 

Shane showing off all of his eggs!

 

Here Noelle is helping Shane empty his eggs (they use them over again each year!), he was so excited about all the candy that was in them!

 

Each child ended up with a gold coin in one of their eggs.  They could redeem the coin for a large gift.  Shane picked out this monkey basket!  He named his monkey Palm Tree! 

 

And Olivia was too young for the hunt this year, but she was able to spend some quality time with daddy!  Sadly, I did not take a picture of the three in their adorable Easter outfits before church, and after the rain, it was not worth the effort!  It's hard to tell in the pictures, but Faith and Olivia have coordinating dresses!  So cute!