This was our first Easter as a family of 3. Josh and I have had many discussions on how we were going to celebrate Easter now that we have our little girl. We did not want to take the focus off of Christ and the sacrifice He made for us but wanted to do some of the fun activities with Kaylee. We have gotten a lot of neat ideas of how to do some of the fun things while keeping the focus on Christ. Some things we are doing and are going to do is: a Easter Basket but not from the "easter bunny". We deceided that this is a time of celebration of what Christ did for us and that we did not want do the easter bunnny bc it was something that was created to take away from Christ.(it's a personal decision and would not look at anyone differently if they chose to "see" the easter bunny.) This year she got a book about the real meaning of Easter, a Praisebaby DVD, her favorite snacks and her toothpaste-fruit flavor and two stuffed animal lambs. We also did an Easter egg hunt at our home which was a blast. At first she did not understand that you pick the egg up and then put it in the basket but after a few of them she got the idea of it. After she collected all of her eggs, daddy showed her that there was a surpirse in some of them. She squilled with delieght when she saw what was inside bc she knew it was her favorite treat.(toddler fruit roll-ups that have all natural fruits). When she gets older we will put other things inside some of the eggs to help her learn that this is all fun but the reason why we celebrate Easter is bc Jesus died on the cross and has risen!
We attend FBCN on Saturday nights so we went to our Easter service on Saturday night and then went to our Youth BLG's(Bible and Life Groups). The day of Easter we rested and then just relaxed. We had to go to Walmart in the morning bc we were cooking dinner for our friends that night. Durnig the ride Josh and I were able to have great conversation and refect on the day..of course we did this throughout the whole day. We spent the rest of the day outside at the pool and the hottub. When Kaylee woke up from her nap, she got in and splashed around. She is our water baby..she loves the water. We ate our Easter lunch around the pool. It was a georgeous day to be outside and celebrate. We spent the afternoon with grandpa, grandma and Sara. That night we went to Pastor Nate (high school youth pastor) and Stacie's house. Kaylee played with their daughter London who is 6 months old. We ate dinner together and then the girls went down for bed and we hung out and had a blast with our new friends! Thank you Lord for great friends!
this is milk all over Kaylee's face that she shot from her straw from her sippy cup :) (@ Nate's and Stacie's Dooley's house)
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