Happy Resurrection Day!!

We started a lapbook a few weeks ago about the ministry of Jesus. We've been learning a lot about Jesus and His ministry. We finished up last week with him dying on the cross on what we call Good Friday. We finished up the last one today and it was all about His burial and resurrection. The timing of it all has worked out really well.





We celebrated Passover on Thursday evening. I cooked and prepared our first Passover meal. It was a wonderful, meaningful celebration. Caleb was a little bit bored and kept interrupting (what else do you expect from a 3 yr. old??) But, it was a very meaningful time for us and we will probably do this every year. We missed Dakota and wished he could have been there.

The Passover Meal table

The red bin is for hand-washing and the plate with the towel over it is our Matzah.

The Seder Plate--horseradish (bitter herb), boiled egg, charoset, parsley, romaine, salt water, grape juice and the lamb (not pictured--I made a chicken and potato recipe with herbs and lemon)

This is Caleb washing his hands during a part of the celebration

We've also made a "Hill of Calvary" to celebrate Resurrection Day. We started it last Monday by making our hill with the tomb and planting wheatberries. We've been spraying it with water several times a day for a full week. The wheat grass has grown like crazy and it really looks very pretty. It's been fun for the kids. It's also been a great learning experience. On Good Friday evening we opened the tomb and placed "Jesus" in the tomb (we wrote descriptions of Jesus all over a clothespin and wrapped it in a handkerchief). We sealed the tomb shut. On Sunday morning we got up to the stone rolled to the side and the handkerchief still in the tomb. But, no sign of Jesus anywhere!! HE IS RISEN!!!

Hannah and Caleb making the "mud" for our Hill of Calvary

Caleb quickly lost interest

Muddy hands! What fun!

We made Jesus out of a clothespin

We opened the tomb--see our wheatgrass growing on the hill? Those are roots poking down inside the tomb.

We wrapped Jesus in the burial cloth and placed him in the tomb.

We resealed the tomb

Resurrection Morning! Jesus is gone! HE HAS RISEN!!

Look how much the grass has grown in a few days!

We made resurrection rolls for breakfast. Hannah and Caleb loved rolling the marshmallows in butter and then in the cinnamon/sugar mixture. We rolled the marshmallow in a crescent roll and placed them on the pan.
The marshmallow represents Jesus.
The crescent roll is the tomb.
The butter represents the embalming oils
The sugar/cinnamon mixture represent the burial spices.

We cooked them in the oven and the marshmallow (Jesus) melted and the rolls were hollow inside just like the tomb after Jesus rose!!

They were yummy!

We are so blessed to have such an awesome Savior! He is alive! Thank You, Jesus!

Go Fly A Kite!!

Hannah and Poppie got a chance to fly her new kite on Tuesday. It was a beautiful and perfect Spring day.

Getting it ready to fly!

Up Up and Away!

Good flying!

Pooped from all that running!

Hannah and Poppie with the kite!

A Close up.....aren't they sweet together?

Hannah's online class was today. It was all about 'first flights' and kites. She had a lot of fun!
Learning about the Wright Brothers
(It was lunchtime and she decided she could not wait until after class....so, she ate her lunch during the class. And, she didn't just have chips, she ate a PBJ before this! :0) )

Charles Lindbergh

Amelia Earhardt

Quiz at the end....Hannah had to stand up to make sure she could type it in fast enough and get her points!!

All 1000 White Pine Seedlings Are In The Ground!

Well, I'm a little late in posting this! The trees were all planted by last Saturday, March 20th. I've been sick since the 16th and have not been doing much of anything. So, picture posting to my blog with tree updates kinda fell to the bottom of the list when I prioritized things like getting my family fed while feeling like I was trapped under a bus (after it had driven on top of me!). Feeding the family and keeping Hannah and Caleb from killing each other was about all I could do. I've been pretty miserable, but am feeling more like myself today--finally! Thank you, Jesus! Enough about me......the trees, that's what you wanted to know about.....

We are DONE! Well, I shouldn't say "we" since I only planted 6 or 7 trees in total. :0( If you'll look in the background of the pics.....the red chair is where my poor, pitiful, sick self parked while the others were working hard!

We had good help with these trees. Seth and Tracie helped us a LOT! And Nanny Boo Boo planted for the first time this year--she's good at it, too. Don't know what we would have done without all the help! Thank you, thank you!
David digging the holes with the tractor (this is mostly Poppie's job, but when I was out with the camera, Poppie was taking a break from the tractor). Planting is back-breaking and augering is neck-breaking!

The new Auger--working great!

Planting!

You'll notice Caleb in the background of all of these pics--he's making sure we have no slackers!

Hannah Making a Kite with Her Poppie

Hannah is taking an online class on Wednesday called "Go Fly A Kite" with Mrs. Loretta Rhodes at Currclick.com. Their assignment before class time is to make or buy a kite and go fly it. So, we purchased a kite-making kit and Poppie and Hannah put the kite together and Hannah colored it. Poppie explained to Hannah how a kite will fly and why you need the certain parts of the kite. They have a "date" tomorrow to fly the kite.

yThe finished product!

Pray for some good kite-flying weather!!