Easter

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday last week. The girls loved finding eggs and especially loved eating candy. The girls looked beautiful in their matching Easter dresses that were custom made by Grandma...thanks Grandma Pam! They especially loved the "princess" gloves that came with the dresses in their Easter package as well. Coleson, as always, was happy and handsome :).
Makinzie was very good at remembering the real reason for Easter. As we arrived at church someone asked her if the Easter bunny had visited and was good to her, she quickly leaned over and whispered in my ear that Easter isn't about the Easter bunny, it is only about Jesus and that He loved us so much that he died on the cross and then He was resurrected. I explained to her that they were just asking her about the Easter bunny to make her smile, hoping that she would talk for a minute and not be quite so shy :). We had been talking about Jesus dying on the cross all week because out here there are giant crosses put up in the lawn in front of all of the churches. Makinzie had asked lots of questions about why our church doesn't have a cross on it and we had talked about the fact that our church likes to celebrate Jesus' resurrection and that because of his resurrection we can all be resurrected and live with our Heavenly Father again some day. Makinzie is always excited about celebrating; she was very happy to explain how wonderful Jesus was to die for us and be resurrected to all of her friends and her teacher at school. I'm so glad that she is happy to bear her testimony of her Savior.