It was Emma's birthday the Friday before so we also celebrated her birthday with family and this girl does NOT like being the center of attention, so when everyone sang Happy Birthday to her, this was quite mortifying!! (as you can tell)
We then headed to Clay Center and on Sunday the cousins had a fun time celebrating Easter together. The Easter bunny came to Clay Center, we went to church, had a great lunch then a fun Easter egg hunt for the kids!
Easter was so much fun...Emma and Ellie are starting to fully grasp the Easter story and the significance of what happened on the cross. Emma often said it was hard for her to listen to the story, because it made her SO sad. She is the sensitive one and frequently had tears in her eyes, while Ellie, on the other hand would reassure her by saying, "Emma, he just had to die." (very matter-of-factly!) Ellie, also being the extremely curious one, would ask SO many questions and details DAILY. And in the background there was Edyn in a sad little voice saying, "Jesus died on the cross..." over and over. We had such a hard time getting through the RESURRECTION EGGS because it would turn into a 20 minute discussion about her wanting to know the details....
"But, I just want to know WHY Peter said he didn't know Jesus THREE times?!"
"Why didn't his mommy, Mary, stop those mean people that killed him?"
"Why didn't Jesus just run away?"
These are just a FEW of those questions...we are SO thankful she has them...it makes our hearts smile to see them "get it" and I'm pretty sure it has to make Jesus smile too.
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