April is here and it is going to be one.busy.month. for our family!

We close on the house later this week, this weekend is going to be spent painting the new house and packing is happening a little each night around here.

I have some posts ready to go, but after that, I am just not sure how much blogging I’m going to do this month while we move.

We had a wonderful Easter. Little Bug understands more and more about the death and resurrection of Jesus and it is amazing to see her connect the dots on this in her own little mind.

She has said things like: I am sad that Jesus died. Why did he die? Why were they so mean to Jesus? I don’t want him to have to die!

Yesterday at our family Easter dinner, Aunt Amanda (who is Little Bug’s Sunday School teacher) told us that they asked the kids in church yesterday if they ever do things that are bad. Little Bug’s response? She said, “No.” Hmmmm.

We’ve had many good conversations about the “whys” and “hows” of Jesus’s death and resurrection. We have the Easter Egg set that tells the story of Easter and Little Bug has loved these this year. The last egg is empty because Jesus’s tomb was empty!

It is so amazing to be at this point with Little Bug in her realizing the Christmas and Easter Story and what that means to her life! This year, she even connected the two stories realizing that Jesus was born as a baby to die for our sins as a man. And then He rose again three days later!

Easter dinner was at my parents’ house this year and after naptime we had an Easter Egg hunt in the front yard.

Our Family of Four – Easter 2013

With Grandma and Grandpa.

With Grams and Gramps.

My babies are getting SO BIG.

<p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01693.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC01693" border="0" alt="DSC01693" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01693_thumb.jpg" width="304" height="315" /></a></p>  <p align="center">Sweet Pea loved hunting eggs!</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01706.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC01706" border="0" alt="DSC01706" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01706_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="358" /></a></p>  <p align="center">And so did this little girl!</p>  <p><a href="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01711.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC01711" border="0" alt="DSC01711" src="/1DB25B0C4C9C4FF725BBC44D009EECCD22E13F05/images/2013/04/DSC01711_thumb.jpg" width="254" height="397" /></a></p>

- Elaine