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!

Chicks

Here's our cute little Easter craft and what we used.

Painting....interesting with kids under 4. haha

But they had lots of fun doing it!

Not the eggs but the carton.

Our Bobble Head Chicks

 

 My Baby Chicks with their baby chicks

Surprises!

Mark came home from work with something for each of us!

 Laina's flowers

She said to say "I love the flowers! Love, Laina."

 

 The boys got airplanes, a motorcycle, and a car.

Cheese!

 Daddy showing them how to play with them the cool way!

 

I love how they are just soaking it all in!

Laina and I laughed at her flowers on her head.

 And my beautiful flowers!!!!!!

What a sweet, sweet husband God has blessed me with!

The Boys' "New" Bed

Mark's Aunt Sara heard that we wanted to get a bunk bed for the boys. Aunt Sara said that Mark's cousin Billie Rae had one that she was wanting to get rid of. YAY!!!!!!!! It saved me the headache of looking for one and having to buy one since they were so sweet and just gave it to us!

So that led to Mark and me taking a "quick" 14 hour trip out to SD to pick it up at Mark's grandma's house while our kids stayed with my REALLY nice parents at our house. It was very nice to be able to spend that much time with Markypoo. He did get a little stir crazy the last 2 hours. hehe  But it was a really nice time! And it flew!!! Perhaps because we didn't have 3 little ones needing to go to the bathroom or asking if we're there yet or saying "I'm soooo tired of being in the car," etc. haha We said that we could go to a gas station and both go in AT THE SAME TIME!!! :D It was nice. But best thing of all was that we were bringing our boys something fun. While we were out there, we did get to see Billie and Grandma and Uncle Bill for a little bit. Mark was tempted to stay there forever but he knew he couldn't. :) It was hard to go there and have to leave right away, especially since the weather was beautiful (73 degrees)!!!

The next couple days I painted it. And here's the finished product.

I'm just so happy with how it turned out! Mark says that he wants one! haha

Bodie sleeps on the bottom. Such a huge bed for a little boy, but Sutton can always join him if he wants. Besides that, Bodie kept falling out off of his crib mattress that I put on the floor so now he has a big bed to roll around in and MAYBE I'll get more sleep cuz he will. :D And Sutton gets the top which he thinks is sooooo cool.

Grandma (and Grandpa) Brown bought them their cool Lightening McQueen sheets and throw and all their new pillows! It was sooo sweet of her/them. The boys absolutely love their new bed!!!

Thank you, Billie Rae, Aunt Sara, and Grandma Sally and my Mom and Dad!!!
You made two little boys very happy!!

That Sticky Whiteness

SNOW

We HAD to get out and build a snowman!

 I made the big one. 

Laina made the small one.

I don't have any idea what face that is! haahaha

And Sutton watched

and chatted and chatted

about the movie that Bodie was watching

(that was Bodie's treat cuz he had to stay in with dad).

Sorry this is blurry....

While I was working on the driveway,

they built this snow "castle". 

It's on the sidewalk between them. :)

Winter Wonderland

Just wanted to share some pictures of the beautiful white stuff!!