smoothies are fun!

for duncan at least,

not for the person who has to clean up this mess :)

Happy Birthday EK!

WE LOVE YOU!

Resurrection Mountain

The week of easter Jayden and I had a fun activity that helped us

focus in on what Easter is all about.

It was perfect for his age and hopefully we will make this a tradition for years to come.

I got the idea and instructions from the book,

"Treasuring God in your Traditions"

by Noel Piper

it is a wonderful book on how to make holidays and birthdays

special and meaningful without being commercialized.

We spread the project out throughout the week, but she

recommends having it for the entire week from Palm Sunday

to Easter and to spread the story from the scriptures through out the week.

First we made the mountain out of the recipe in the book.

4 cups of flour,

1 1/2 cups of salt

1 tablespoon of oil

1 1/2 cups of water

mix it together

and then shape it into a mountain,

stick your fist into the middle to make the place for the tomb

make a whole in the top for the cross

you bake it at 250 for 4 hours

and then you can paint it

we only had finger paint,

so that is what we used!

for the cross, we found 2 sticks in the yard and put them together with twine,

you also want to find a rock and fit it to the tomb, before you cook it

we then made the people out of pipe cleaners

they were very "creative" but sara and jayden had fun

making them

you use these people when you are telling the story

we used the mountain and the people and recounted the story to jayden

and the boys

on good Friday we put Jesus in the tomb,

and then there was silence on Saturday

to represent the waiting

and then on Easter morning,

Jayden awoke to this:

the stone was rolled away and He is RISEN!

jayden was so excited about it,

and i think from talking about it throughout the week

with this activity -

it helped it sink in

Thank you Jesus that you are RISEN!

we celebrate you!

EK's 2nd Birthday Egg Hunt

Emery Kate turns 2 on Wednesday

she had an easter egg hunt party on saturday

it was adorable and such a fun party!

duncan & ek LOVE each other - they are too cute together

molly & ek in their matching outfits

they were precious

all of the "bunny food"

riley & kenten

the party favor bags - so so cute

little oscar

the beautiful birthday girl

they had a table of stickers - duncan thought it best to put these on his face

instead of the provided paper

coach & campbell

luke

the adorable little cupcakes

dana & felice

great party amy!

it was so much fun and every detail was precious!

happy birthday emery kate - we love you and are so thankful you are in our lives!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

I hope you had a wonderful day celebrating the resurrection of Christ!

We awoke to the tomb empty!

i am going to make a separate post soon about our easter activity with this

i had fun this year getting to dress a girl for easter :)

she had a simple white smocked dress, but an adorable

green flower to match her brothers.

my friend makes these flowers

you can find her site here

a picture with three kids - just isn't that easy

we were trying to get the boys to kiss campbell

after a WONDERFUL service at church

i am biased but what can i say :)

we had a big group over for lunch

our families, the daniels, and alejandro (mb's bf)

alex & christina

the table setting

yes - it did flow into our living room (which is small) basically it took over the entire front part of our house

but we were all together - so that was fun!

sassy pregnant al :)

campbell is as happy as can be, as usual

we took pictures outside after lunch

here is ek and molls

such a cute picture of mama and her girl

(i think they look alike here)

the daniel family

the marable family

aren't their matching dresses adorable?

amy (christina's sister), amy, me, christina, and alex

sorry i don't know why it is doing this underline thing?

our family

alex, alice, c, amy, me, cindy (blake's mom), mom

the ogden crew

alice & c

chief and alice with their grandkids

me & amy

i told her i think we kind of look alike here :)

the boys played baseball outside after lunch

and campell was just cute watching them ;)

and then we ended the day with confetti eggs

what better way to end a sweet easter?

we loved it all and thank you everyone for coming to be with us

to celebrate this special day

we love you all!