We woke up early ion Easter, like 6:30 early! The Easter Bunny brought some yummy treats and a ball for each of the girls. But silly Easter Bunny didn't know that Rachel "doesn't so much like jellybeans" when I was little the bunny always forgot my sister hated chocolate..silly bunny! Ill spare you the pictures from Easter baskets and the hunt at home because both girls had major bed head!
I was able to buy the girls matching dresses that even came with matching dresses for their babies Cherry and Evie.So of course Cherry and Evie HAD to come with us to church that morning. We had breakfast at church and then listened to the sermon as a family. During the worship Charle was doing her best to sing a long. Her favorite lines were "He has risen" and "alleluia" she was real cute singing along, clapping and raising her hands to worship the Lord. Shortly after worship she fell asleep on my lap and Rachel was kind of fidgety so we let her draw and write a picture. She wrote a letter to God stating that she loves him and she drew hearts and a cross she even attempted to write the word cross. I wish I had a picture of it but she put it in the offering basket so that it could go to God. She thought the offering basket went straight to him :) Everyone just loved the girls in their matching dresses and babies.
Charle was so cute she would see her Sunday School teachers and say "There's my teacher Mom!", "That's my teacher Ate!", "Daddy look my teacher!" and then seeing friends from Sunday school class of course got her very excited. She doesn't have any friends that she plays with on a regular basis so seeing her friends from church make her super excited. During the service a family sat behind us and Charle kept looking back and smiling and giggling at what I believe was the dad. Here she is with her baby Evie. Yes she has a bruise on her forehead I have NO idea how she got it :(
Rachel was kind of being a grump lol. I think it was the going to bed at almost midnight and waking up at 6:30AM thing. She was very upset that she didn't have Sunday School that morning and no Children's Church. I had to promise her that we would try and go more often so she could do both of those things. I taught her myself about the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus. She was visibly upset at the fact that people would do that to Jesus. She didn't understand why they did it because he was telling them the truth. She was also EXTREMELY happy to hear that he rose from the grave. Or as she said it "grows from the grave" (Charle corrected her each time though :P) Here she is with her baby Cherry.
After church we went to the annual Easter egg hunt at Causland Park. It has been here for as long as I can remember! It is always something that has been a lot of fun. I made the girls change into pants, shirts and sneakers so they could run easier for the eggs. Causland Park is an awesome park made of completely rocks (aside from the grass but that's a no brainer) so there is plenty of cool spots to hide eggs. It's a completely free event put on by the local Lion's Club.
Rachel was in the 2nd big kids group :( the first being 9-12 year old's. I can't believe my baby girl is getting so old. She got a lot of eggs! I would say about 20 some kids didn't get any. Rachel after much convincing gave one of her eggs to one of the girls who didn't get any because she was to scared to run and get them. I'm very proud of her.
My little Charle bug. Even though shes the size of a 2 year old she was in the 3-5 group and probably the smallest one of all!! She kept asking me "is it time yet" and "now?" she was so excited to go pick up eggs that when it was finally time she ran past like 3 eggs LOL. She did get 3 eggs total but when we were walking to find Rachel we saw a little girl crying because she didn't get any eggs. I explained to Charle that she got no eggs and Charle took her biggest egg and gave it to the little girl. Her mom thanked us and told us that the little girl has Autism and since the parents weren't allowed to help she wasn't able to get any. I was so proud of Charle for doing that! It made my heart swell with pride I have to say that my little 3 year old would be so generous. Her big cousin, Katie, gave her a few eggs so she would have more then just 2. Charle just adores Katie and for good reason. :D
Just remember HE HAS RISEN! We need to thank the Lord for all he has done for us. Times are rough right now. With the earthquakes throughout the world and more locally there was an explosion at the refinery that killed a few people. We need to praise the Lord that we are fortunate to live where we are that we are healthy and alive. We need to thank the Lord for taking our sins and washing them away.
