Gossenauer Family Easter

Here we are on Easter Sunday (sorry about that hideous glare!) Ok, technically it was Easter Saturday, but you can't tell the difference! We dressed up and went to the evening service at our church- which was no ordinary Easter service. First we sat down with a dozen or so other families in one of the classrooms and ate pizza and carrot sticks. Then we decorated "Easter centerpieces." (7 wooden eggs with corresponding verses for the 7 days of the passion week, hanging on curly wires that were stuck into a plaster base) Good luck visualizing that one. You can just see it for yourself when you come visit!!


After we ate, we shuffled into the sanctuary for the actual service. Asher threw a little kink into the evening by having a nasty cold. For the first time since he was really young, Michael and I sat outside the sanctuary in the "reserved for mothers and babies" section and tried our best to listen while keeping him occupied. We ended up taking shifts, letting him walk down the halls and climb the stairs until the service was over. We were wiped out when we got home!!











These are pictures of the boys hard at work with their Easter eggs. It was surprising how well they both did decorating such fragile objects. Look at that concentration!





My big project was making an Easter cake with Josiah. I really wanted him to understand what we were celebrating, so I used an idea from a MOPS magazine and taught him about Jesus while we baked.

You can see his red lips- he was tasting the batter of our red velvet cake mix (the red illustrates Jesus' death on the cross for our sins) It didn't seem that weird until I starting asking him questions about the cake we were making, like "Josiah, what color is the cake?" "Blood," he answers...





Here's the finished product. You can see the frosting is white, showing we are made clean, white as snow by His forgiveness (you may notice the rainbow chips stuck in there, too- no significance, I just really like that kind of frosting!!)
The pretzels are for the crown of thorns that Jesus wore. The little red circles are skittles, for the nails in his hands and feet.
It was a lot of work to make the cake and tell each part of the story, but it was totally worth it. I think it's officially become a tradition!