Wonderful Resurrection Sunday!

What a beautiful time we had on Sunday. Not only was the weather very nice, the trees and flowers blooming and filling the air with sweetness, the children dressed in nice clothes, but also a very nice addition was the fact that everyone was well and healthy. The good news that my MIL will not have to undergo chemo and radiation is just a wonderful joy to all of us and we have now all recovered from the last flu bug just in time to still be grateful for our health (isn't it a shame we have to get sick before I really appreciate all the wonderful healthy days my family enjoys?!). Saturday we had spent a fun day with the oldest son taking the youngest two and me to a 3-D movie about "Sea Monsters" and the Kid's museum and we didn't return home until supper time. Then we ate a quick bite and went right to work on two cakes - Emma made a "Bunny" cake and Ethan made a chocolate cross and frosted and decorated it by himself (well, except for me writing "Happy Easter" on it for him). I got the children bathed and in bed and went to work on Emma's jumper (which was finished at 1:45 am on Easter - not too good an example to my children about not procrastinating!! - but I decided Sat. evening that they were at least going to know Mom kept her promises if at all possible!). Sunday morning we had a wonderful church service and then went to Gran's for lunch where we all stuffed ourselves on turkey and then we all dyed eggs. At 3pm we drove a short way to D's Uncle's house (the old home place where my FIL and his 9 siblings grew up) for the annual Creech Family Easter egg hunt. Somebody figured it up that this was about 78 years in a row that the family has had the egg hunt there. Now that's what I call a good family tradition!! My children did their share of finding eggs and then we all did our fair share of chowing down on the goodies - everything from homemade egg salad to bbq'd hotdogs to homemade candies and cakes and lots of other goodies! The children also took advantage of the fishing pole we had taken and Katy was lucky enough to catch a couple of fish out of the old pond! (No, we didn't fry them up but threw them back to catch another day.) Early in the evening we moseyed on back home and spent a little extra time chatting with Russ and Katy and just enjoying our time together. Before bed that night we reread the resurrection story to make sure that the youngest ones remembered that all of the wonders and joys and good days in life are just a little foretaste of the joys we will receive because of the amazing sacrifice that our Savior and God made for us on the cross. D told them that the fun they had today was a gift that they didn't do anything to earn, just like we can't earn the joys Christ gives us, and that the fun of the family was there for us because we were part of the family, just like Christ makes us part of God's family. I thought that thought was one of the most special parts of the whole wonderful day. How true that no matter how wonderful a day we have here there is so much more awaiting us, not because of anything we do but just solely based on His amazing love for us sinners.
Hope you have a wonderful week and that you, too, know with certainty that Christ is preparing wonderful joys for you both here and later just because you are a part of His family!