Happy Easter!

Elijah has eagerly been counting down the days to Easter. We've enjoyed doing the Road to Calvary in preparation, where we looked at OT foreshadowings of Christ as well as the events of Holy Week. Elijah's sense of time is unfortunately weak, so we did end up some heretical statements about when Jesus was and was not alive ("Jesus will be alive on Easter!"). The boys both particularly enjoyed Fiona French's retelling and illustrations of the Easter story.

Elijah was captivated by our church's Good Friday service, carefully watching and listening. (And then he was very upset to find that he could not go to class after service.)

The boys dressed for church:

Josiah is currently obsessed with putting things in and out:

Elijah hunted for his eggs for his basket:

Look! There's candy inside!

After church (where Dustin played trumpet for three services), we headed down to my parents' for a delicious Easter lunch.

After lunch, the kids worked hard at digging while the adults lounged and chatted, and another Easter egg hunt was had.