Easter

With all this Easter talk, Carly has been very concerned about Jesus dying. She keeps asking, "Is Jesus still dead?" I tell her that he LIVES in heaven. I don't think she quite understands, becuase at every prayer (including mealtimes), she prays, "please bless that Jesus won't die."

A couple weeks ago I took Carly with me to go get Logan's scriptures, and she saw this picture...

She insists that the little girl in the picture is her. "Look, Jesus is holding my face!" It does kinda look like her...

OUR EASTER STORY...

Here is the MOST DECENT Easter picture I could get with all three kids...

CLEARLY, Logan and Chase aren't losing any sleep over Carly's trauma (while we're being honest, neither am I:))


Here is the only picture I got of Carly NOT crying...



The boys aren't completely off the hook. When I heard the kids running into my bedroom Easter morning, I was expecting a high volume of excitement and enthusiasm, but instead was greeted with these complaints from Logan, "the easter bunny gave us way more stuff last year." "He gave me a game for 4-7 year olds, and I'm 8!" "AND, he gave me silly string that's expired - it probably doesn't even work". Once Carly and Chase heard what Logan had to say, they jumped on the bandwagon too, and I had a bunch of whiney kids moping around - ON EASTER MORNING! Anyway, I told Logan that since he absolutely HATED EVERYTHING, that I would take it all, and followed up with a lecture about the real meaning of Easter.

When he asked for his basket an hour later, I said "NO"! So, when we went outside to take pictures, he asked, "if I'm good for the pictures can I have my easter basket back?". So, there's the story, and the reason for all the smiles! Happy Easter!