Happy Easter

(I started this post on Easter...now it is a few weeks post Easter and I am just coming back to finish it up. I am enjoying this blogging, but things seem to take some time for me to get around to. If you don't mind it a little late, read on...)

Here is a look back at Easter 2009, Rebekah was 20 months and Eve and Lydia were 5 months old. Wow have they gotten so big this last year.

I really did try to get a picture of all three girls (looking and smiling) in their beautiful Easter dresses from Nana (she also provided the shoes, socks and hats). To see the hats and the more attempts at getting a picture all together you will have to see my Picasa April 2010 album. After several picture attempts, I just gave up and took a short video, which I can't get to load here, so you will have to see it on Picasa.

Note to self for next year: Take Easter picture of girls in the morning before eating, egg hunting, and tired, ready for naps with dirty dresses and messed up hair.

The girls really enjoyed finding Easter eggs and really the candy in the Easter eggs. Lydia would hold up an egg and ask to "up" for "open up". Wow, they love candy. This is great fun and we enjoyed finding Easter eggs downtown on the square on Saturday with the Petermans--Deacon is an excellent egg hunter too! And we also enjoyed a egg hunt at the Bauman's house on Sunday. Easter eggs and candy are fairly easy concepts to understand. Even Lydia and Eve without much instruction could pick up their baskets and put eggs into them. I do need to note that Eve will also put in pinecones and the sharp prickly gumballs that fall from tree into her basket as well.

Eggs are fun, candy is delicious, but Christ has risen and this mystery of his suffering, death, and resurrection is something to contemplate all year long! Christ has Risen, Christ has Risen Indeed! While eating our breakfast on Easter morning, I took the computer to the table and played the song, "He's Alive" by Don Franciso (you can find it on utube). This song has special meaning to me and I hope my girls will enjoy the tradition of having it played as loud as possible on Easter morning. My parent used to wake us kids up with this song being played loudly on their record player (yes, I am that old!).