Mother's Day 2013 (a day late)

I always write about how I love being a mom, so I feel like there is nothing more to add to it... not today anyway.  I'm just taken aback at how blessed this "Mommy Journey" has been.  I have so many wonderful Mommy photos that I know I will always treasure, so this Mother's Day I'd like to remember how God has blessed me.  He is good and gives good gifts  :)

 

Mother's Day 2010

Napping on Mother's Day 2010... just a few hours before I went into labor with Siah. 

Very real and not-so-polished Mother's Day 2013 pic :)

Celebrating Passion Week

I hope to celebrate the whole Passion Week more next year than we did this year.  Starting with Palm Sunday, I want the whole week to be BIG... don't think it could be as big as Christmas (even though I think it should be) so maybe second biggest holiday.  There are so many fun things to do!  I am blessed to have so many cute faces to do the fun things with!

Siah in his toddler hunt.  He was so careful to take every grass blade off his eggs before putting them in his bag.  (I got baskets for them, but put their gifts in early and forgot they'd need them for this hunt!)

Poor Noah's bag ripped a hole in the bottom and all his eggs fell out.  Luckily, Siah was kind enough to share his bag. 

Eli was cleaning up the eggs like a mad man!

Yeah!  FUN FUN FUN

Sorting through all the booty.  :)

Decorating Eggs.

Careful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This idea just came to me on Good Friday.  I wanted something to do Saturday... the day we wait... the day He was buried and our sins were carried far away.  We got black balloons and wrote a bad choice we're thankful we have forgiveness for.  For Siah's balloon we just wrote "sin".  Eli wanted his to say, "fighting with Noah" and Noah wanted his to say, "sneaking gum."  After we wrote our sin on the balloons, we let them go far, far away until we saw them no more! 

Thank you Jesus for carrying our sin away- as far as the east is from the west!

That's right!  Lookin' good for Resurrection Sunday!

Our eggs all done and waiting to be hidden after church.

This is what happens when we try to get a picture together.  :)

Time for a backyard hunt with our decorated eggs!  I told the boys to let Zekey out first- he's pretty happy about that.

Yay!  Siah was SO EXCITED for every egg he found!!

Eli found his golden egg and there was a dollar in it!

Huh?  Say what?  What are we looking for? 

Resurrection Eggs- SUCH a cool thing to do!  The boys loved it!

Of course, we've got to have the stories!  This one is GREAT!  Talks about the whole passion week.

Another story.  This was a really cute way to relate an Easter Egg to the REAL meaning of Resurrection Sunday.

We've got to do an activity on a holiday!