Easter Celebrations

Easter never gets enough credit.  It's the biggest celebration of the year for Christ-followers, or at least it should be.  Christmas is awesome and who doesn't love snow and hot chocolate, but Easter is the celebration of Christ's sacrifice AND His victorious triumph over the grave.  This means so much more to us this year knowing that our friend Jon is hunting Easter eggs in heaven, as Siena reminds us, and that death has lost it's sting in our lives!  That's worth a Hallelujah!!

All that to say, we had a fantastic Easter and beautiful weather to enjoy it.  We dyed Easter eggs, searched for those eggs around our house, enjoyed a great service with 20,000 other people from middle Tennessee at our home church campus and then we celebrated with a Southern BBQ dinner and Easter egg hunt with our Tennessee family, the Hamricks.  I could write a lot of fun stories about how many hard-boiled eggs we broke (all but 1), how many bottles of bubbles we went through (I lost count), and how quickly we, I mean Siena, ate the jelly beans (They lasted until 11am).  But really, it's the kids and their smiles that make it so memorable.