Happy Easter!

I hope that you all had wonderful Easter celebrations with your family and friends! We had a wonderful weekend. It was busy and full, but fun! My only regret is that we didn't have an opportunity to take a few more family pictures on Easter Sunday. Our family went to church yesterday "in shifts" because Sean was serving in Children's ministry, so he and Beckett went to church before the rest of us. After church, we were in a rush to get to Nana and Papa's house because everyone was waiting on us to eat! Will fell asleep on the way there, and as soon as we arrived, Beckett was begging to change into his play clothes......so, just to appease me, they all posed for this ONE picture. Will had just woken up and everyone else was ready to change and eat, so this will have to do for Easter 2010! Will's first Easter with us, and this is the only picture I have of him all dressed up!

After lunch, the cousins (minus Ty and Marley) headed outside to hunt for eggs. Nana and Papa had hidden LOTS of eggs for their grandkids to find and they were ready to go!

Connor helped Will look for eggs!
Nana and Will looking for eggs in Papa's grapevines!

Loved this pic of Will on the swing after the egg hunt! He just looks so big!

We dyed Easter eggs on Saturday evening......

and Will thought it looked very fun! He didn't stay up at the table for long or we would have had a permanently rainbow stained kitchen table! He was really wanting to get into those glasses of colored water!

We tried a new activity this Easter eve. I found the recipe for these Easter cookies through a link that another Ethiopian adoptive family blogging friend posted. I was so excited to find this recipe, as I had been looking for one for a while! The recipe for the cookies completely explain the events up to Jesus' crucifixion through His resurrection. Each step of the recipe includes the scripture reference to read. It was a great family activity and the kids were excited to find that the cookies were hollow inside when we took them out of the oven on Sunday morning! So cool!

Grankaki and Granbob had a dinner party to attend in Knoxville on Friday night, so they came to stay with us and play with the kids. On Friday afternoon, it was warm enough to put on swim suits and play in the water. Grankaki sprayed them with the water hose and they had a great time!

Just catching up on all of our recent activites.....so rewind to LAST weekend when we got together with several of our friends and had a cook-out/egg hunt! Here is a pic of all of the kids with their baskets of eggs. So much fun! Justin is so good with all of the young kids! He should be.....he has 5 younger siblings! I loved walking up and finding him sitting at this little picnic table with Helen and some buddies!

I guess this event was technically Will's first egg hunt, so here he is showing me what he found!

And last, I just had to share this sweet picture! We love Will's "springy" curls. They are seriously little coils of curls that just spring up and down! You would never believe how long they are, until you pull one up, or you get his hair wet! This particular evening, we really soaked his hair during his bath time and just loved his new look with bangs!

So, I think I've gotten caught up with an overview of the last few weeks! Blessings to you all this Spring season. May we each live every day with the understanding of what Christ did for us and and in the comfort that we have hope for a wonderful future because of His amazing love!