The real meaning of Easter...

Last week, I was driving to Syracuse with the kids. We where listening to a worship CD in the car and one of the songs caught Iain's attention....the words in the song were....

He (Jesus) lived

He died

He said in three days He would rise

He did

He's alive.....

After hearing that chorus, Iain says "That's Easter." Not realizing that he was talking about the song, I started looking around to see if someone still had out Easter decorations in their yard or something. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, I asked him what he was talking about. He said "The song is talking about Easter."

Leave it to a four year old to remind us that Easter isn't all about bunnies and candy....I love that boy.

Here is a picture of Iain and Ella on Easter Sunday.

Virginia....

Over spring break we visited Colleen and John in Virginia. We all had a great time and the weather was beautiful! Colleen is a wonderful hostess and cooked special yummy food for the kids (and us).

We visited a farm on our first day there. The kids had fun looking at all the different animals. Iain's favorite was the horses....I'm not sure what Ella liked the best. She seemed to be fascinated with it all!

We visited the National Zoo in DC which is amazing! Huge and free! Here is a picture of Ella at the zoo making faces at some frogs.

Colleen joined us on our trip into downtown DC. Iain really wanted to see dinosaur bones so we visited The Museum of Natural History. Talk about over stimulation! There was so much to see in there I think the kids were both a little overwhelmed! In this picture we were in front of a huge wholly mammoth skeleton but it is really hard to see.

We walked around a little and saw the white house and few other places, but it was so hot that day it was hard to do much walking. So we got over priced ice cream from a street vendor and sat in the shady grass for a while....until Iain decided he had to go to the bathroom....then we had to frantically look for a restroom.

Thanks for having us Colleen and John! We can't wait until our next visit!

a fresh start

It has been over 2 months since my last post. After several requests from freinds to start blogging again, I figured I should get back to it. Obviously, we are still alive and well. Now that spring is here, I want to start fresh and new with my blogging.

Welcome spring!