Easter 2011

This Easter was a little different for the Kairdolf Family. This was the first Easter we spent away from our parents and other family. As with every holiday that we go back to Murfreesboro, we spend most of the time running across town from house to house trying to squeeze in equal amounts of time with each family. Although we love our moments with our family, it just becomes exhausting and really by the end we think "what was today all about anyway?".

So this year we spent Easter in Atlanta. We had planned on attending Buckhead Church which is where we normally spend our Sunday mornings, but when the opportunity presented itself to spend Resurrection Sunday with our neighbors who don't normally attend church we felt that was where we needed to be. The park that we spend most of our afternoons playing at hosted a sunrise service. Now let me say, there was not all the bells and whistles of Buckhead Church but I really think it represented was what Easter is meant to be about.

Later that afternoon (after a family nap time of 2.5 hours) we went to a neighbors house to have a Easter dinner with friends. Layla was the oldest of the kids. The others were just young 1 year olds. :) I love that when you live away from family, your friends become like family. God has given us some amazing friends in the short time when have been in Atlanta and we are SO SO thankful.

Beth Moore said it best on her blog.

My prayer in remembrance of this Resurrection Sunday:

Please pursue each member of my family and me for the full work and benefit of Your Cross and Your resurrection. Please do not yield to our resistance. Appear unmistakably in every place we run. Walk through every door we slam. No addiction need hold us, no affliction need bind us, no suffering need smother us, no defeat need hover over us, no foolish act need define us and death need not haunt us. In the quake of the Cross, hopelessness slipped through the trembling cracks of earth and fell with an everlasting sentence into the bottomless abyss. Graves broke open and the bonds of the guilty fell from their wrists with a breath-taking thud. Because of this day that we, Your church, commemorate, we are free.

Layla and Kyson on the way to Church

Reaction to Easter basket from Granna and Papa

(A little out of order) Family Picture

Loves her bunny ears!

Yes, she ate all the skittles in this egg!

Piece of chocolate bunny

And what that piece became...

All the kids at the party. Thanks Katie for hosting!

Layla needs a Cozy Coupe. She LOVED this thing!

Picking up the eggs was her thing. Especially once she figured out what the eggs had in them:)

The newest addition to our group of friends. Reese at 2 weeks old. (I got to hold her and she is just perfect:)!