Our weekend started on Friday, when we remembered our Savior's suffering by carrying a cross through our neighborhood with others from our church plant.  Then, we had a Good Friday service.  The amazing sacrifice that Jesus made never fails to stun me.  Saturday we continued our yearly family tradition of dyeing eggs, to celebrate the new life Christ gives us. On Sunday we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord with our church plant family.  He is risen...the grave is empty! Halleluia!!! 

DH helping mix colors with dd...

Oh...the joy of an orange egg!!

On Monday, we celebrated our youngest's 4th birthday.  He wanted a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday.  I wasn't sure if I could make Thomas on a cake with my Wilton supplies or not...but he recognized it was Thomas...so I guess it  turned out ok. 

Make a wish...

He had a few friends over and we made trains out of cardboard to ride on our sidewalk chalk tracks.

We also painted some little wooden trains. The kids did a great job...they each turned out so unique! 

Today we finished our square foot garden. Although technically it should probably be called a linear foot garden since it is much longer than it is square due to space constraints.  We had a blast putting it in ...now we will pray that it will grow. 

I also found some great notebooking ideas for gardening, (Thanks Jimmie and HarmonyArtMom!) so we are using our garden for history (studying WW2 victory gardens), math (estimation, measuring, counting), science (hypothesis, prediction, parts of the plants, how things grow, insects, weather, nutrition), language (writing, vocabulary) and art (sketching and drawing.)  Wow...and this just started out as a project to get more healthy vegetables and fruits onto our table.

DD watering newly planted seeds...

and sketching in her Gardening Notebook.

Our 4 year old's self portrait when he had the camera...dirty feet...the sign of a great gardener!!

Yes, it was a wonderful weekend...that spilled over into this week!