Easter Weekend

Easter is definitely one of my favorite holidays, and probably the most important holiday to me as a Christian. Without the Resurrection, then everything we believe is in vain. But Jesus triumphed over death, and we serve a living God. We were blessed by an absolutely beautiful Easter weekend. The weather could not have been more gorgeous and we were able to enjoy some quality time together as a family. Let me backtrack one week, though. The Sunday before Easter (Palm Sunday) we visited Pleasantview Baptist Church in Arlington, which we have decided to make our church home. (Yay!!! We finally found one!) We decided to send Eliana to children's church and put Olivia and Addie in the nursery. I was pretty skeptical about being able to sit through the entire service without being called out to get one of them, but I was never paged! God is good, all the time! We were told Olivia napped the whole time, Addie asked for me a few times, but did really well, and apparently Eliana taught her class. No, not really, but her teacher told me the most adorable story. We went to pick her up, and her teacher gushed, "Eliana is absolutely fabulous! I asked the kids if they knew what next Sunday was, and Eliana told the kids all about Easter!" Eliana was too embarrassed to repeat the story to me, but I'm guessing she told the other kids exactly what she told my mom on the phone earlier that day, "Easter is when Jesus rised again. He died on the cross for our sins, but they rolled the rock away from the tomb and it was empty." She makes me so proud. Here are some pictures from the picnic we went to on the Saturday before Easter. It was held by the church by a park right by our house, and everything was so nice. The girls played on the playground and then had fun going on an Easter egg hunt after lunch.