Our Easter - 2014

What a wonderful weekend!!  Our Easter was filled with lots of fun memories and all the usual Easter activities.  

We had a sunny day on Sunday and enjoyed all heading out to church a bit early to visit with everyone there over coffee and doughnuts to celebrate Resurrection Sunday.   This was the first Easter Gwendolyn and though she didn't really participate in any of our Easter activities (she slept through most everything) she sure did have fun playing with her brothers Easter eggs.

One of the highlights of my Easter was that Gwendolyn stayed with us for the entire church service.  She usually goes to the nursery after the worship but she was so happy and quiet that I kept her with us on Sunday and she lasted the entire service.  I loved getting to hold and snuggle my little girl during the sermon, which made for a wonderful start to my Easter.

Neal loved doing a small egg hunt first thing in the morning and was so excited about the small little Easter Basket he got after finding all the hidden eggs.  He has been enjoying his Easter candy for the last few days, and I have too :)  

Out church always does a big church picnic for Easter dinner and this year was once again a lot of fun.  We were able to be outside at a park this year and it was a wonderful time with our church family.  We ate lots, lots and lots of food, played family games and enjoyed great fellowship with everyone.  I love spending the holidays with lots of friends and family and so an all church picnic was a great way to spend time with those we consider "family" here in NC.  

And naturally what would a holiday be without a little photo shoot right?...

There were a lot of pictures taken of the kids and at the end of the day I realized we didn't take one family photo.  I need to get better at remembering to get all of us in a photo, I don't know that we really have any family photos of the four of us. This was the closest I got to getting all of us and this was by accident since Neal photo bombed the picture of us girls :)

We hope that y'all had a great time celebrating Easter and that you were able to have lots of meaningful and good conversations with family and friends about the good news of our Risen Savior.  I know we talked about the Cross and Christ's Resurrection with Neal lots throughout the last few weeks and he had lots of questions so I continue to pray that the Lord would stir in him (and Gwen) a love for God and a faith that leads to salvation.