Easter 2017

For Lent , I gave up the daily Social Media that was taking up too much time and focus including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter . At first it was uncomfortable and I felt very disconnected. Then I saw the value and felt better probably since I'm an introvert and fewer closer people in my life is where I thrive in relationships .  I haven't decided whether I'll delete the accounts or just heavily narrow what I follow, who I friend and what groups I join. I've read books, worked on projects ,  reached out to those people I love and yet don't see regularly otherwise. I still see value in the idea itself of encouragement , support, prayers and sharing Jesus with people I know don't have a relationship with Him. 

For the kids, we've been going through the stories of Jesus' life. 

We have our growing collection of Easter
 Books, as well as Resurrections Eggs, the Jelly Bean Prayer we do through out the season and various Resurrection centered  children's videos . We also added the The Easter Story Nesting Eggs this year as well. Our small group played Easter Bingo, made clay crosses and made Resurrection rolls. We had family in that weekend but did these during Holy Week. 

 

Easter decorations: 

 

Easter Egg Hunt in our neighborhood: 

 
 

 
 

Easter morning church service: 

Preparing our dinner table to have family over for Easter dinner. 

 

 
 

Levi turns 3

Levi's favorite show is Little Einsteins. He would watch it all day every day if I let him. I ran with that for the heme for his birthday party. It was a bit tricky since the show and merchandise is discontinued. I was able to find napkins and cupcake icing sheets and rings, I made everything else with my Cameo Silhouette and mixed in the colors. 

I made stations in the backyard to go with the show: 

 

And a couple of stations just for fun. Although I didn't think batteries for the bubble blower  , haha
 

 

 We love our outgoing huge vocabulary happy, thoughtful, handsome boy. At his 3 year check up he weighed 29.6 pounds and he's 38" tall. He's shown no serious interest in potty training and we've discovered he has some pretty serious seasonal allergies. He wears size 3 shirts, 2 in pants and still takes a good afternoon nap.