Celebrating Easter

Christ has risen, He has risen indeed!  What a wonderful weekend we had celebrating with family, friends and our church this Easter.

Tyler returned from a TWR trip late Friday night/early Saturday morning and we were so happy to have him back home.  Especially home in time to celebrate Easter together.  

I'm sure our Easter looked quite similar to most of your Easter celebrations.   Neal, was on school break and so we filled our week prior to Easter with some fun Easter traditions such as egg decorating and going to the store to pick out some easter baskets and little gifts.  As well as a trip to pick-up some food for the Easter dinner we were hosting for a few friends.

Love having all my happy helpers with me at the store

Gwen & Neal's Egg creations 

It was a bit hard for the kids to have to wait to play with the new toys and baskets we purchased 'til Easter but once they were put away I think they forgot about them until Sunday morning.

3-legged race

We enjoyed a fun church picnic on Saturday evening.  Even amidst the rain and cooler weather much of the church showed up for the fun, games, fellowship and food.  Tyler may have been trying to adjust from a bit of jet lag but that didn't stop him or Neal from participating in the games and doing quite well in the 3-legged race (until the string tying their legs together broke).



The kids were up early on Sunday morning excited to do a small easter egg hunt and enjoy some candy before getting ready for Church.  This was the first year Gwen was able to hunt for her own easter eggs and she did a great job finding them all and even helped Neal find a few of his eggs too.

We spent the later half of our Sunday morning worshiping and fellowshipping with our church family.   Coffee, doughnuts, singing together, and hearing the word preached was an encouragement and good reminder of the great gift and sacrifice of Christ for our sins.  What a wonderful Savior and a blessed redeemer we have!  

We ended our day with dinner shared with some dear friends from church and TWR.  There was lots of laughter, games and food.  You can't celebrate a holiday properly without lots of food, right?   (We enjoyed our time so much we didn't remember to take any pictures of the food or company).  

We are so grateful and blessed by the friends the Lord has brought into our lives here in NC.  While we are not close in proximity to our families we feel very loved by the "family" that God has blessed us with from our church and TWR while we are here in NC.    

Happy Easter!!!