Awwww...Easter

What does Easter mean to me??? Well when I as growing up, it was another holiday that we could run around and find the baskets that the Easter Bunny left for us kids somewhere around the house.  It was Easter egg hunts and big chocolate bunnies and it meant that spring was here, or close.  Sometimes it meant my birthday or that my birthday was coming up soon.  When I became an adult it meant another dinner, another day, another holiday that I really had no idea why it was a holiday.  Since Rylie was born, Mitch and I decided to start attending church and raise our kids in a way different then we had been raised (not that we were raised badly :) ).  We wanted to understand what the Bible was and what is was to be babtized and learn the stories of the Bible.  Most importantly we wanted to have Jesus Christ in our lives and teach our kids to lead a Christian life.  Anyways, I am getting a bit off track here, so let me get back on!  It was just recently that I along with some ladies in my bible study watched the "Passion of the Christ" and started understanding a bit more about the sacrifiece and the significance of what Easter really was.  I went to an Easter service at our church on Easter and on the stage was three crosses and the effect that looking at them had on me was pretty amazing.  Knowing what Easter was all about and why we celebrate it and seeing those crosses up there...well I was moved...so to answer the question that I asked in the beginning...what does Easter mean to me??  I means that Jesus is alive, he lives in my heart, it's a day to celebrate that He is alive, it is a day for being together, hunting eggs and baskets that the Easter bunny left, its a day for families, its a celebration of the reserection of Jesus Christ...that is what Easter is to me...Here are some photos that I took on Easter of my family and of the infamous Easter egg hunt!

Here is my baby girl...she really likes to find the
eggs but once she realized that there was candy
inside them, she lost precious egg hunting time by eating all the candy
before she moved on the the next egg!

Wyatt had a ball just being outside, he is just an outside
kinda guy!

The infamous Rylie smile, she is sure that
her eyes are open wide!

My angel...pure and simple

This is my baby sister...not so much a baby anymore I guess!

These are the beautiful bulbs that my mom gave me...
now if I can just keep them alive!

My boys...Wyatt found more eggs then Rylie thanks
to his helper!

This is my beautiful Gramma Evelyn...she is 84, I think and
still going strong...she has beat a stroke and breast
cancer...I pray that I can be like her someday

I hope that everyone had a great Easter!!