Easter Sunday Funday

Our weekly vlog obviously includes eggs:

We had a full, wonderful week as our friend Joy was here to do ministry with us. Lots of sports ministry, and also egg hunts:

at the trash dump and Guadalajara

and on Sunday at Cajueiro Claro. 

We said goodbye to Joy on Friday, and it really hit me how Ana Sofia was now affected by our goodbyes too (read about her first goodbye here). We had a wonderful Easter as a family, and also got our first official family pictures (Thanks Jeff!) with the girls in their matching Easter dresses (Thanks Uncle Loren and Aunt Carol!):

Some reads from the Interwebs (from the last two weeks)

1. The gifts death has stolen: " I recognized a sort of salvation that does not always look how we think it should." 

2. Stop asking children these 7 questions: "6. “You can’t do that.” vs. “What would it take to do that?”"

3. How I became the poster child...: it is always different when it happens to you
4. Three surprising reasons Youth are rising up right now: I wrote my own blog a little bit about the same subject--Dear NRA
5. No, you're probably not called to move to the nicer suburb: "the next time someone says they want to move to a “better” suburb, ask them what they mean. Ask them what makes a suburb “better”."
6. When we blame lust, we intensify sexual sin: "we have lost sight of the other interrelated factor that drives sexual sin more than all the rest: anger."