Easter Sunday - 2011

We celebrated Easter Sunday with my sisters family this year. My sister lives a couple streets away (literally less than a mile) and while I love it for babysitting, swapping clothes, and borrowing numerous items, it has been great for holidays. I can cook things at my house and still serve them at her house while the dish is still warm. In fact, while my kitchen was being repaired, my mom took dirty dishes over to Rachel's house and brought them home washed.

Rachel hosted dinner and our friends came over (my best friend and hers.) The weather was cool in the morning, but by meal time (2 pm to fit around church services and nap times) the sun was out and it was beautiful. We moved tables outside and had a wonderful meal.

One of my favorite things about holiday gatherings, or a dinner party in general, is all the kids. It is sheer madness! There are seven kiddos between the four families, with all four of us having babies in 2010. There is crying, screaming, giggling, yelling, whining, jabbering, drooling, and I just love it! The kids play together and sat at the little picnic table (for a while, at least) for the meal. I'm excited for (and slightly dread) when the four babies will be running around together. It is a boy dominated circle, though, the only girls being Delaney, the oldest, and Lily.

After dinner we had a little egg hunt with dozens and dozens of plastic eggs. The kiddos loved it. Caleb and I watched the organized chaos. I promise he is started to get more hair, but it is really, really, blond.

Lily slept through most of the festivities, but awoke in time to play with some eggs. Her Easter bib was bought before she was born, but because Aunt Rachel just knew she was going to be a girl (even though the rest of us didn't have a clue,) she felt it okay to purchase the pink bib. She also adores the Ticklish Ducky Mimi sent her. It sings, flaps it's wings, and Lily just laughs and laughs.

We were able to grab a couple of shots of the cousins in their Easter best. I have chosen to share the picture where Lily looks the best. I have another one where the boys are looking at the camera, but all of Lily's chins are showing in that one.
We are excited for Easters to come where we get to explain to Lily why we celebrate. We are excited to share that because of God's love for us, He sent his son to die, death had no hold on Him and he rose from the dead three days later. We pray she accepts this gift God has presented and that she one day chooses to live her life for Him. Thank you, Jesus, for giving your life for us.