The Warren Family: Easter

As with all holidays this year (apart from Christmas), this is our first Easter away from "home". Thankfully Easter is so much more than my comfort zone. Easter is seriously the best day of the year no matter where you are because of what it means.

"For lI delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died mfor our sins nin accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised oon the third day pin accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that qhe appeared to Cephas, then rto the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time..." 1 Corinthians 15: 3-6

Our paster used the above verses on Sunday. The resurrection of course means something because it means that God accepted Jesus' sacrifice for all of our sins and it made us right with Him. BUT, what is so cool about Christianity is that when Jesus was resurrected it wasn't in secret just to one person that we all have to trust (although faith is a lot of the Christian walk) he appeared to 500+ people who all could verify that he was alive again. Pretty awesome.

So to celebrate this incredible day where death was defeated, I was just happy to BE. Happy to be alive, and happy to be with my husband and children.

Of course, Easter egg hunts are pretty awesome too. I have a pretty fun fact about myself that some of you don't know. I have NEVER not done an Easter Egg hunt. You can say...it's my thing. Something about discovering secret "treasures" is a part of my soul. So the Warren kids had their fair share of them.

Eli and Anna ready to go at my MOPS Easter Egg Hunt

The kids then proceeded to have a hunt at their school and then of course the ULTIMATE hunt at our house : )

Anna received a head start.

The boys did pretty good, only one Egg was compromised.

There are no pictures of the adult Easter Egg hunt, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one. Along with Todd's dad, my second cousin Harvey and his family (Becki, Josh, Nathan and Delaney) were there along with my Cousin Lynn and her husband John. The kids hid the eggs while the adults waited (impatientely) in the other room. Once the kids said "GO" we all had to find "baskets" (mine was the bathroom trashcan) and find our treasures. There was some pushing and crying (1 year old Delaney did not like that her mom was pushed around) but all in all we ended up with some good stuff. (I found the golden egg with $50 thanks to my cousin Lynn!!! She really stepped it up this year...)

Here are some closing shots from the day. I hope you had a great Easter!