Happy Easter!

Hope everyone had a HAPPY EASTER!
(Warning: LONG POST)



I love, love, love Easter! It's my favorite time of the year.

It's such a special season. This weekend I've really been thinking about what Easter is and how Jesus sacrificed so much to die for me.

If you know me at all you know my brain goes from one thing to another to another but then somehow it all ties back in to my original thought. And here are my weekend thoughts:

I started thinking...

...about Jesus dying on the cross and how when He died everything went dark...

... and how now He LIVES and how He's our LIGHT.

Last year Casey and I were heading to bed. He turned off all the lights as he walked back to the room. Thinking I've walked through this house 1 million times I didn't turn on any lights.. I just attempted to make it back to the bedroom without light. Well as you can probably guess, I ran right smack-dab into the doorway and just about busted my face into 1,435 pieces.

All this to say-

...yesterday it dawned on me that no matter how familiar things might be... without Christ, darkness will take over. I'm just all the more thankful for Jesus and his sacrifices. I certainly would not want to live life in the DARK!

He is the LIGHT unto my path and the LAMP unto my feet!

Okay sorry for the little "rabbit trail". I just had to share that little thought.

I do sincerely hope you all had a Happy Easter!

We definitely did...

We spent Easter Weekend with Zannie and DaddyBen.. and Miles a.k.a. "Kitty":



First things first- seeing Kitty upclose and personal. Then Mom and Lacey took Anna to the park while Casey and I got ready for our double date... with Sarah and her boyfriend, Sean.


Photo: because I knew you'd be wanting to see him...

We went to Bonefish Grill and I ate more food than humanly possible... I blame Peanut! It was all so delicious though! We had a great time with Sarah and Sean too.

Saturday was beautiful... well, it started out gross and rainy but ended up being a very nice day! Casey and I met Lacey for lunch at Lawler's BBQ (one of my favorite local spots.. and Peanut's too) and then shopped for the afternoon.. with one little pit stop at Maggie Moos where I indulged in Strawberry icecream mixed with Banana icecream and gummy bears.. SO GOOD!

That afternoon Lacey and I took Anna over to KM's grandmother's for a little visit and some photos.. although the subject clearly didn't want her picture made:



This one was my favorite and you can't even see her face (but that my be why it's good..haha)



All the "face" pictures looked like this:



or this:


(or worse!)

KM took us over to see the horses... but they were kind of big and scary to Anna... she didn't know what to think



and either did we..



Ha!

I think Anna liked her.. she probably would have pet her nose if the horse hadn't of been so eager to EAT!



It was fun though.

Easter day was even more beautiful! Casey, Anna and I woke up and went to the early, early service.. it was really nice. Then we had blueberry pancakes at Cracker Barrell (another favorite). The afternoon we spent with my family.. just hanging out on the patio. Anna found her Easter basket out there and she had her very own Easter Egg Hunt.





She loved her nightgown... she held it up to her like she was making sure it would fit. It was so cute!





She loved her Easter basket.. but she REALLY loved hunting Easter Eggs!







She was most excited after she had found all the eggs and realized they had stuff inside of them!





The Easter Bunny even put chapstick in one of the eggs... Anna REALLY loved that!



I just think this picture is cute and funny... (but it could just be me)...



Either way.. she loved Easter, she loved her eggs, and she loved getting to be with all the family and so did we!



Hope you all had a very Happy Easter Weekend too and a SweetMonday today!

p.s.... to see all 5,465 Easter photos just click on any of the above pictures and it will take you to my Flickr page.