Easter Fun!

We had a great week leading up to Easter - lots of fun firsts in the Cain house! Catherine Ellis and I spent a little Mommy Daughter time together the Saturday before Easter week with our friends William and Stephanie at the Dawson Methodist spring festival. It was a blast - very hot, but fun! Catherine Ellis bounced in four different bouncy houses and went on her first Easter egg hunt. She's a natural at hunting - imagine that! She was in the age group 0-2 and she did have a bit of an advantage since she was a week shy of three - but the girl got her some eggs:) It was cute!

William and Catherine Ellis waiting to hunt eggs

This wasn't posed, even though it appears that it might be;
Catherine Ellis was already deep in thought about how to find the most eggs!

My girl dashing to get her eggs

She hit the jackpot

Oh so very proud of her eggs!

Yay for our first easter egg hunt!

Easter Weekend was great fun too - the girls had a big Easter and it was so nice to spend Easter at our church as family. Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful to spend Easter with our families too, but the traveling with two little ones is hard and often takes days to recuperate from. This was the first Easter service we've attended at St. Mary's and it was wonderful. We were the oblation bearers for the 8:45 am service. Catherine Ellis was in church with us because Sunday School classes were closed and she did great - she's such a big girl.

The Easter bunny made a stop at our house and the girls had a blast going through their baskets after church and lunch with David's family. We have so much to be thankful for this Easter season - he has risen indeed and sacrificed for us. The mercy and grace that he has blessed us with is a reminder of his undying love for us. Hope you and your families had a great Easter too!

The girls Easter baskets

Catherine Ellis's basket up close - books, place mat, puffs, bracelets, coloring rolls, and lots of other goodies from the $1 bins at Wal-mart

Sweet C's first Easter - she got a sippy cup, bowls, puff, peeps
and some sweet little Easter animals

Our little family - hard to get everyone looking these days!

Sweet sisters

Pop and his girls

Silly girl

Puffs -the Easter bunny sure knows the way to this little one's heart!

Opening all the goodies

Caroline, Catherine Ellis and Cousin Carrigon
(Aunt Stacey's little one)

Gran and her girls

Happy Easter!

From our little bunnies!

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
John 11:25-26