easter 2011.

i love easter.  i’m belated, i know.  but i still love it.  i love being reminded anew of the glory of my risen Savior, of how death could not hold him and how sin has been conquered once and for all.  i love rejoicing in my freedom in Christ.  i love being at church and singing through tears of the cost Jesus paid to bring glory to the Father and salvation to all who believe.

He arose, my friends.  hallelujah, He arose!

i wanted, no needed, to be at church on easter sunday.  and i wanted the kids to also be at church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.  so i braved my first outing with all four so that we could go to church while poor daddy stayed home to get some sleep on his post-call day.

and though it was a harried experience getting out the door and though we were late, it was totally worth it.

like i said, i love easter.

and once again this year, we were invited to the home of our wonderful friends in order to celebrate after church together.  here are a few pics from that day…

all dressed up in happy spring colors!

my two easter babies.

lauren was ALL business during the easter egg hunt.  so much so that i’m not even sure she was having fun.  THAT’S how serious she was about collecting eggs.

phil got these super cute felt baskets for the kiddos.  that daddy, he’s good stuff.

even though there were over a hundred eggs hidden, the hunt was over in just a few minutes.  mikey scampered off so fast to find eggs so i didn’t get any shots of him in action.  but he did come back to show me the end result of his hunt.

phil found an extra little surprise on one of lauren’s eggs.

sorting through their loot.  and in the back there is one little guy convinced there were more eggs and was determined to find ’em.

hope your easter was great, too!  🙂