Zoë Anastasia: Resurrection Hope

"Then bursting forth in glorious day

Up from the grave He rose again!

And as He stands in victory,

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me;

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ."

Here in the love and power of Christ, we stand.

Zoë - Life

Anastasia - Resurrection

Truly an Easter child. Holding her Lamby.

Happy Easter!

We celebrated Easter this year along with my grandparents, mom, brother, aunts and uncles and cousins in The Dalles. We witnessed a community production of "The Last Days of Jesus," a Passion Play that stretched from Thursday evening through Sunday morning, re-inacting the Last Supper through the Resurrection. We are so blessed to be able to celebrate our Risen Savior with our extended family!

Ready for the Resurrection

(Passion Play sunrise service)

With the cousins :)

After seeing the re-inactment of the Resurrection, we all went to my grandparents' church service and enjoyed some special Easter activities - animal petting zoo and an Easter egg hunt (of course). We then went home for a delicious meal, and off to the park for our own Easter egg hunt.

Pure delight!

Searching for eggs with Anna

Our sweet cousins Wesley and Joshua

found the golden bunny and "let" Zoë find it. :)

After-egg-hunt eggs-haustion. LOL!

(In truth, I'm not a fan of Easter egg hunts. I feel like it becomes such a big deal for kids and adults that it overshadows the true reason for our celebration. But I discovered "Resurrection Eggs" which sound really cheesy but really are a powerful way to "baptize"the secular symbol of the Easter egg. Each of 12 eggs contain a symbolic object to help tell the story of Christ's suffering, death and resurrection, correlating with scripture readings and devotional conversation. Very cool. And great for kids, even as young as Zoë! She LOVED opening them up and discovering all the treasures inside. I had a great time reading through the selected scripture passages and talking about it with my cousins on Holy Saturday.)