HE IS RISEN INDEED!

"He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem."
          -Isaiah 53:3

"Having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross."
          -Colossians 2:14


""He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds you have been healed.""
          -1 Peter 2:24


"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
          -John 3:16

"Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

          -John 11:25-26

"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.  Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me."

          -Phillippians 3:10-12

"Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once and for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.  In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus."

          -Romans 6:8-11

My Savior Lives

Our God wil reign forever

And all the world will know His name

Everyone together sing the song of the redeemed

I know that my redeemer lives

And now I stand on what He did

My Savior, my Savior lives

Every day a brand new chance to say

"Jesus, You are the only way"

My Savior, my Savior lives

The King has come from Heaven

And darkness trembles at His name

Victory forever is the song of the redeemed

I know that my redeemer lives

And now I stand on what He did

My Savior, my Savior lives

Every day a brand new chance to say

"Jesus, You are the only way"

My Savior, my Savior lives

My Savior lives, My Savior lives, 

My Savior lives, 

My Savior lives, 

My Savior lives, My Savior lives!

festivities:

my Easter basket made by my wonderful husband:

the random pinata tradition (which we all love) created by my dad's parents: 

spectators

 the younger kid's pinata

grandpa doing what he loves...adjusting the pinata so we miss when we swing!

me taking a swing at the big kid's pinata

a friendly game of whiffle ball!