What a fun day today. We started off by eating our Easter cookies. We made cookies last night and the cookies stay in the oven overnight much like Christ remained in the tomb. The cookies are hollow in the center just like the tomb was empty when the Marys arrived. This was a fun way to help the kids to understand what Easter is about.
The kids then "opened" their Easter baskets. Then the race was on to bathe and dress all 12 of us to get to church on time. I am allowed to make up the amount of people to get ready especially when we are time crunched to get somewhere.
Off to church, new dress shirts for the boys and new beautiful dresses for the girls. Mommy made the dresses and they turned out very cute.
Rebekah hasn't made it through an entire service at church since she was very little, but today she lasted the entire service in the nursery. It felt a little funny sitting next to Alicia during church. Either she is with Rebekah or I am teaching in the orange class (9 and 10 year olds) so we don't sit with each other in church very often any more.
Off to my grandmothers house to celebrate the day with extended family. This all seemed to be going too well . . . speed bump. The van has been overheating, so we stopped about 2 minutes away from home and called my mom to help us get up to Gram and Papa Dean's house. So now we are without two cars . . . sort of. We are borrowing Alicia's Mom's car while she is on a missions trip and my Dad, S'Mom, and brother left this morning for a week to California to visit my grandmother and Aunt and Uncle in Sacramento, so we can borrow his van the next few days while our van is being looked at.
The good news is that Jesus is Risen and my simple problem of not having a car in my name that runs seems like such a non-issue in comparison to what Jesus did for us on this day.
Again off to Gram and Papa Dean's. Great food, great family, and great Easter Egg hunts. We have a color coded system in place so each child looks for their own color and I can hide them based on each child's ability. My wife is incredible for coming up with this idea for the egg hunts. This allows my 10 year old nephew, Nicholas, to not end up with all of the eggs intended for the 2 year old.
And some BIG news . . . Rebekah started to crawl today. She was born on the best day (7/7/07) so maybe her major milestones will come on important days. She just took off as if she has been doing it for weeks.
Back home with tons of food and desserts in tow. A few more egg hunts with the kids then off to bed for them. A quick look to see my disaster of a bracket for March Madness. Now it's time to be in bed an hour ago, but I am procrastinating sleep to inform you all of such a good day.
Shalom,
Joel
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