Easter

We tried to be very intentional this year in teaching the kids more about Easter and what its really about. Last year we had fun painting the crosses with the kids so this year we tried some different things to teach different parts of the Easter story.

On Good Friday we invited Gr. & Gr. Clark over for dinner...Isaac wanted to use the red plates to represent the blood of Jesus. He even told everyone he put on a red shirt for Jesus' blood and brown pants for the cross. We also make crowns of thorns....

Madi thought she'd be silly and wear one!

After dinner we read them the Easter Story and then did some foot washing. This was one of the things Jesus did to His disciples before he died on the cross.

The kids really got into this and couldn't wait to wash Gr & Gr's feet and mom & dads...

Friends of ours made a confessional cross...we thought this would be a really good way to prepare our hearts before we went to the Good Friday service at church. The kids and us each wrote down our sins and made a cross out of them. We used red to signify the blood that washes those sins away...

Enjoying an Awesome service at church

Saturday morning we headed to church for the Annual Egg hunt...check out these cute "Bucket Heads!" That's one thing you can do with an Easter basket!

Making rice krispie eggs.

and nests

Family shot!

finding eggs at Grandma's

Dying Eggs...

Making resurrection rolls....we didn't seal up the tomb quite so well...:)

Overall it was a great weekend with family celebrating our Savior!