Celebrating Easter

He is Risen!

We had a fun couple of weeks leading up to Easter, enjoying typical traditions like egg decorating and egg hunts, while also celebrating the sacred meaning behind this super important holiday and what it means for us. It was so special this year to explain to Maelee how even the commercial Easter standards like eggs and bunnies can be examples that point us to Christ- bunnies are gentle, have big ears for listening, are white as snow, etc, etc... Like egg hunts, if you search for Jesus, He is always there, etc, etc... And to see her truly begin to grasp the meaning of the Cross has been great to witness.  

We love hearing her explain the meaning of Good Friday and Easter Sunday and even her little mealtime prayers have gotten more and more personal and relevant- especially when she prays daddy will have a safe trip to NJ and Lilee will sleep well!  Oh, how we pray we will see evidence of these little truths taking root in her heart!  She is still sooo possessive of her things, and her friend's things most the time, and can have a just-plain-mean streak that frustrates us to no end, but her joyful spirit and incredibly sweet and loving attitude toward her sister (and us and certain friends, at times!) does give us hope! :)  Another precious video of how she feels about her baby sister is below.  And here are some of our favorite shots from the last couple weeks...

 

Singing in front of the church on Palm Sunday!

She couldn't quite get to the mic but if you look closely, you can see how much she's belting her little heart out!

Our sweet little Easter darlings!

   

Enjoying our third annual egg hunt on the roof of our church!

Super sweet video of our girls "talking" to each other :)
Lilee has become so much more talkative lately- it is adorable!!!

We had a lovely Easter dinner at a friend's place with delicious food and another sweet egg hunt in their building's courtyard.  Such a fun way to end such a special day!

 

Back home, Maelee enjoyed opening some more Easter goodies and finding the traditional golden egg.

 

 

What a wonderful celebration! 

More pics of Easter fun here: