Celebrations

On Saturday, our little girl turned four.  We pretended her birthday was Friday, because Saturday was full of too much driving and non-fun to be a four-year-old birthday.  That's okay, though, because she pretends a lot, too.  She still thinks she's an armadillo.  Happy birthday, my precious and sweet little armadillo!!  :)

See the stuffed armadillo in her hands?

You can't take ballet lessons while you're on the road, which is a bit of a shame since she dances and twirls so much.  We did the next best thing, and bought her some ballet DVDs for her birthday, and now she twirls around the camper with them.  It's fantastic!

We also celebrated Easter on the road this weekend.  We'd colored our Easter eggs outside at our picnic table.

We had an Easter egg hunt outside in our campsite, as there's not much room in our RV.  I loved watching them look around here for their eggs with the view of the mountains in the distance.  Colorado is gorgeous, but more about that later this week!

Before I forget, we loved the book "The Cross in the Egg" by Shirley Taylor with our littler two this Easter.  It tells the story of Jesus' death and resurrection so sweetly for young kids, and as a rabbit tells the story, it makes the gigantic bunny we've put into Easter have a little significance.  I highly recommend this book!

Also on Easter morning, we attended church, as usual.  It has been interesting, as we travel the country, to be attending a different church each week.
On Easter in Colorado, we sang about God's glory displayed in the mountains.
In New Orleans, where everything is wet, swampy, and in danger of hurricanes, we heard a lot of analogies about floods in the sermon.
In Arizona and New Mexico, the music in the service was accompanied by harmonica.
In Florida, we attended a church the day they were grieving the kidnapping of two of the congregation's children.
In New Mexico, we attended a church on the day they announced they were going to close down the church.
In Florida, Alabama, and North Carolina, we attended a lot of churches where Char and I were the youngest adults by twenty years, and our kids were the only ones in children's church.
The Louisiana church had lots of families and great classes for our kids.

Churches all over the country - they're very different, and very interesting to attend and interact with people from all these places.  Sometimes, I find myself judging the church, like when "Agnus Dei" was accompanied by harmonica.  However, that's wrong.  The important part of any church is that Jesus is alive!  And that He's alive in the Holy Spirit in His people, and we all love Him.  When we see that in a church, it makes me so happy, and makes me feel at home.  Wherever we are.  That's what's great, and that's because of Easter, and it was a wonderful Easter!

We hope your Easter was great, too!  Next time, I'll write about Colorado.  Here's a few more Easter picture that will always make me happy whenever I think of Easter on the road.

can you tell one child likes to dress up, and the others don't at all?  :)