Bits: Hosanna in Rewind

It's almost Easter Sunday, Resurrection Sunday.  One of my favorite holidays {holy-days} in all the year.

So many reasons to shout Hosanna!
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::  Resurrection Rolls.  A new tradition; such a great visual and so easy. 

:: We thought this was our last snow.


:: Yet, Palm Sunday brought this.  A lot of this.

:: New life.  Bunnies, butterflies, eggs.  The cross.

Made by the girls to share with our small group.

:: Officially front tooth-less.  So excited.  First t-ball practice.  So very excited!

:: The day before Palm Sunday, sunny and beautiful.  Perfect for egg decorating and hunting, plus sharing in a  Resurrection Egg retelling that a sweet family hosts every year.

The girls remembering on the way home how much they all love hard boiled eggs.  Not quite as precious, but pretty hysterical (once I got over all the egg shells).

:: Making up worship songs and dances atop the picnic table.  Having no idea I'm spying out of the kitchen widow.

:: Fancy Nancy reading in Hope's tent she got for her birthday.  The thing stayed up for two days and saw lots of pretend camp outs, books, and a movie night.  Grand finale: A real living room camp out complete with very late bedtimes.


Hosanna!  He is risen.

So much more glorious than any other story this earth could tell.  This story amazes me, most especially, because it doesn't speak to the kind of Savior the world would create.

I want to see Him, His goodness in everything this week.

Here's to hoping for wide-eyed living and unashamed praises all along the way.
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Life gets so busy sometimes, the good and the not-so-good.  Even still, Easter weekend left many more reasons for hosanna.  Best to just go on and attach 'em here, rewind-and-picture-drop style.  I love this beautiful Sunday-- remembering His glorious sacrifice, dying eggs on Nana's special plates, singing next to my family on the pew in the church where we were married, creative baking, lovely lunching, throwing with uncles, recycled scavenger hunt for finding baskets in the barn, egg hunting among first and second cousins and great aunts and uncles.

Yes, hosanna in the highest.

~Katrina