Easter and Preparations

We decorated Easter eggs and made our Easter baskets on Friday night. I had forgotten to take pictures during the whole thing...oops. But remembered after the boys (all the boys including Mark) went to bed. So it's just Laina in the pics. But she's cute, so it's okay

For Easter Sunday we headed down to my parents for the day, so we had to do our Easter on Saturday. And of course, I forgot to take pictures DURING the Easter egg hunt, so here they are afterwards playing with their stuff.

 

 This is a sticky bug thing that climbs down the window. :)

 My little bunnies.

All righty, now here is the Easter egg hunt at my parents' house. 

I realized later that I didn't get any of Sutton or Sawyer...the poor middle children!! 

I love them just as much! Poor kids.....

 

 All tuckered out at the end of the day.

Such a wonderful Easter! Busy, but so nice!

I thank God that He sent Jesus to live the perfect life that we are incapable of, willingly die on the cross, and then raise again on Easter Sunday. Our Christian faith in completely dependent on that fact. As 1 Corinthians 15:17 says, "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. You are still in your sins." He did raise! Praise the Lord! He sees us as righteous by Jesus blood! But, if, and only if, you actually believe and trust that. You are not saved by default. You and I are sinners. Doing something wrong is a sin therefore we're sinners. And God the Father is perfect. He can't be in the presence of sin in heaven. We need something that makes us clean and holy. And that something is Jesus blood. He became the perfect sacrifice...for us selfish people, who sin all the time.

Hebrews 9:12-15 "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."

How can He love us enough to do that?
It's amazing.
Remember Him. Not just at Easter and Christmas, but always. He always remembers you.
Happy Easter!