Holy Week at our house

So, our kids are a bit young to fully grasp what this week means, but we have been trying to teach them about the God that made them and His son Jesus. A while back we bought a toddler Bible and were going to start the tradition of reading a story out of it every night before bed... we tried, and are sad to say that our kids hated reading the Bible!!! Oh no!!! Literally they would both say "no no no" and shove it closed! We will try again with that tradition again soon, but are giving it a break for the moment. (note, they love all their other Bible stories, but just not that one Bible) We also say our prayers every night before bed... well, John and I pray while they stare at us, squirm away, or poke our closed eyes. One night this week though, they were all ready for bed and we each had one in our arms and Neveah said "pay" and they both clasped their hands and smiled! It was a great present to us this Holy week. We had a great weekend spent with our church community in remembrance of Christ's death and then in celebration of His ressurrection this morning. It will be fun in the coming years as we create new family traditions that will help teach Max and Neveah about their savior!

On a non-spiritual note... we have cute Easter baskets for the kids that are decorating our table, however there was no need for us to fill them with anything due to all the candy and gifts that the grandparents gave Max and Neveah! This week we had many Easter egg hunts around the house this week and I'm not gonna lie, they are not very good at it! They didn't understand that they shouldn't follow me so I would sprint to one side of the house with all the eggs and throw them everywhere before they caught up with me and would "find" them all! Then they were both distracted when they found out that the eggs open and we spent the rest of the day pulling apart the eggs and putting them back together.

Today we continued our Easter tradition and had Honey & Paw over for lunch and then all went to Monument Ave. for a couple hours... it is a fun festival with food and lots of dogs that we can bark at! I wish I had some better family shots, but my stinking kids will not sit still!

Neveah looked so pretty... I am proud bc I was able to make her dress! I had to snap a couple of shots while she was having a tea party. We are really into those!





John and his mini me.





My 3 favorite boys!







There was a little petting zoo on Monument... Max got to pet the "mony"



Oddly enough, our kids are not really fond of ice cream. They tried a couple of times and then just refused. Until....







.... they discovered Mama's dessert. Apparently they are fans of root beer floats, I really didn't get to have that much of it... sometimes I hate that I have to teach them how to share!











When we knew it was time to go home.



family+good food+beautiful weather = a great afternoon