Happy Easter

Happy belated Easter! I've been meaning to blog about Easter, but our week has been busy so I am a little behind. Jordan celebrates the orthodox Easter, according to the Julian calendar, which is May 1st this year, but we celebrated on American Easter since we will be on the US on May 1st. We had a good couple of weeks leading up to Easter, reading the Easter story in the bible, making some crafts, and dying Easter eggs. The boys enjoyed dying and decorating the eggs and were proud of their final products. 

On Easter day, we all had work and school, since it was not a holiday here, and we had a co-worker visiting from out of town, over for dinner and fellowship. I made a hunk of lamb covered with garlic and rosemary in the crock pot (this is the before picture), and it turned out delicious. 

After dinner, the boys opened some Easter candy, activity books, and stickers -  thank you grandpas and grandmas. And then plenty of wrestling with daddy and our friend. The boys have enjoyed having our friend over throughout this week, they have been exhausted at night with all the extra play!

I am so thankful for Jesus's sacrifice on the cross, and for our redemption and salvation. And that our children are learning and one day truly believe and understand Jesus's sacrifice for mankind. In the meantime, enjoy this video of Easter through Caleb's eyes.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' Then they remembered His words. Luke 24:1-8.