I hope everyone has a Happy Easter! And remember, it’s not about the bunnies and the eggs and the yuckie peeps, it’s about Him.

These videos are just one of the many, many reasons I love the church we attend. I love how they embrace the technological times. It’s always fun to see what new ways they come up with to catch people’s attention. If you live in the Dallas area, you should come to Fellowship Church for their Easter service. It’s going to be awesome! This will of course be the girls first Easter and I’m really looking forward to it. They get their first little adorable Easter dresses and everything. Hehe! And their first Easter baskets, and of course their first Easter service at church. The first time I attended church with Preston was actually for an Easter service down at the church he grew up going to.

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I got the Christmas photos ready to give out, except I don’t have enough! We had to sort of hurry and choose which photos we wanted in which sizes and we didn’t get enough of the ones I’m wishing we would have. I checked the reorder prices on the photos and it’s $14.91 per sheet! YIKES! We got the largest package plus an add on at a really good price, but I wasn’t expecting so much for reorders. Guess I’ll just have to make do with what we got.

Oh my gosh I have been trying to figure out the name of this song!!! They played it at church during the Christmas service (we went already but we’re going again on Christmas Eve) and it was AMAZING. I just heard it on the radio and was able to see what it was. It’s on their myspace profile, click on “Christmas Eve Sarajevo 1224″. Although I don’t know if that’s the actual name of the song, I’ve seen it listed as several different things. The radio called it “Carol of the Bells”. Man I love it. It’s amazing.

By the way, anyone need any horse riding apparel? Just checking. lol

I’m having a huge personal dilemma right now.

Should we raise our girls to believe in Santa Claus? Or the Easter Bunny? Or anything along those lines?

I didn’t even know what Christmas or Easter was really about until I was in my late teens. Really. I didn’t grow up “religious”, which I’m fine with because I’ve since become a Christian. But the fact is that I never really knew what these holidays were about. I thought it was about some fat guy coming down the chimney and some huge bunny bringing me a basket and hiding eggs in my house. It was fun and I loved those things as a kid, but now that I know what these holidays are really about, I’m having a problem with passing that on to mine and Preston’s children.

Think about it. I want and hope that my children will believe in God, I plan on raising them in church, and so what happens if I tell them that God is real, and then I tell them that Santa Claus is real… and then one day they find out Santa Claus is not real… how would I expect them to believe that God is real? I realize God is a lot bigger than Santa Claus but you get what I’m saying. Also, I just have an overall issue with convincing my kids that some guy comes into the house through the chimney and brings them gifts, or that a bunny hides eggs and brings them a basket. These are not things I’ve ever had to put any thought into before. I’m glad that they are too little for their first Christmas to remember it because I really have no idea what the “right” thing to do is.

I asked my husband what he thought about this and honestly I was surprised with his answer. I think I caught him off guard with it and he didn’t have time to think about it. He said that it’s just a fun tradition for kids and it helps them to believe in things they cannot see. Him being a former youth minister, this answer surprised me. I’ve always been able to count on my husband to help me understand things about God/Jesus/Being a Christian so like I said, that answer threw me off because… Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, Jesus = God, God = believing what you cannot see. I’m sure that given some time to think about it his reply would be different.

I want to find a happy medium with this. Maybe teach them what these holidays are truly supposed to be about, and then tell them the story of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, but emphasize that it’s only a story and that Santa and the Easter Bunny are not real. Then I would be afraid of them telling other little kids some day that Santa is not real and breaking their hearts. But… I would be completely okay with that if they were able to tell other little kids what Christmas really is.

Which makes me think even more into this subject… I hate what Christmas is made out to be. It’s all about companies making money and some fat jolly guy in a red suit. It’s sad how far away the holiday is from what it really should be. Which also makes me think… what’s the big deal with Christmas in the first place? Let me be more specific… obviously the birth of Jesus is something to celebrate if you are a Christian… but why isn’t Easter more heavily celebrated? I would think that as a Christian, Easter… the resurrection of Christ, would be just as celebrated, if not more, than the birth of Christ. But… America in general doesn’t celebrate Christmas for what it should be anyway and so I’m not surprised that Easter is, by a large portion of the population, not as important of a holiday. Or maybe on the outside it just doesn’t look like it is as heavily celebrated. I know at our church Easter was huge, but that’s at church, which is to be expected.

I dunno. Thoughts?

First of all, I have the song on my myspace profile stuck in my head and it’s driving me nuts. I just put it up but it must be time to change it. It’s by Jason Mraz and it’s called “Myspace Theme”. “This is the theme music…. to my myspace… my mysace… myspace… I made it just for while you’re using…. my myspace….” omg.

My mind was all ready filled today with a bunch of things all jumbled around and then we went to church and it was the first night of the ineed2change.com series and now my mind is even more jacked up.

I have a lot to say but no words. Don’t you hate that?

I was going to make bad ass home made pizza tonight but I’m like “blah” so we ordered a pizza. Which makes me feel even more “blah” but oh well. It’ll do.

By the way, I easily slid into my size 6 jeans today. WOOOOO! I was a 4 pre-pregnancy so I’m almost there.

Note to self: Don’t take the babies to a hot soccer game with loud screaming soccer moms and dads. Ashton had her first game today but all the cheering scared the daylights out of Ava. Poor baby.

I was going to say something but I don’t remember. Ugh. My mind is like what?