Livin' the Blessed Life: Papa & Mimi's Visit: Arrival & Easter Sunday

It feels like Christmas around the Craig household this week. Do you know why? MY MAMA & DADDY are here!!!!! YAY!!!!!! To say we were excited about their visit is an understatement. This has been the longest that we have ever gone without seeing them & it brought joy to my heart to see them walk in the door of our house! They arrived here on Saturday afternoon. Josh and one of our neighbors, John ( who happens to be moving this week..that's a whole other post in itself ), went to the airport to pick them up! I knew once they got here they would be tired from the flight and from jet lag, so I had planned for their first two days to be low key. Once they arrived, they relaxed a little at the house and then we headed to the Dragon Hill Lodge on post to eat dinner!

Don't they look great :)

The next day was Easter Sunday!! It was so good to have family around to help celebrate the holiday. Our Sunday started off super early!! This year our praise and worship team was asked to provide the music for the post wide Sunrise service, so Josh & I had to be at the Dragon Hill Lodge at 5:40am. Since my parents were here they stayed home with the kids so they all could sleep longer. After the Sunrise service was over, Josh helped move the sound equipment back to the chapel & I headed home to pick up my parents & the kiddos! Of course we had to take our annual Easter pics!

One of my favorite pictures <3

Trying to get four kids to pose for a good picture is ALOT of work!! This is how I want the picture to turn out....

However, the majority of them looked like this....lol

Then it was off to church! Here we are rehearsing with our worship team....we are blessed to work with a wonderful team!

After church, we walked across the street to the Dragon Hill Lodge for lunch! Their Easter buffet was FANSTASTIC!!

The Jenkins' family joined us for lunch too!

After lunch we headed back to the house! Usually we have the kids Easter baskets out in the morning for them to find when they wake up. However, since we had to be up so early on Sunday morning for the Sunrise service we decided to give them out when we got home!

We had the kids close their eyes before we brought them out...notice Caleb peaking...lol

Of course, I had to put a little bit of Korea in their baskets this year, so they each got some character socks, which are very popular here!

Every year, we also get them sunglasses & new bathing suits! Ethan loved his shades....

This cracked me up...Michael exclaims "Look, we got grass too!! I love grass!!"

After the kids opened their baskets, we sent Ethan on a mission to "egg" our dear friends, the Sanders!

If you have ever been "Boo'd" at Halloween, it is the same concept. Basically, Ethan had to sneak over to their front yard, hide 12 eggs (one is empty to represent Jesus' resurrection), leave an empty basket with the note attached, ring their doorbell, and then run!! Since it was daylight we didn't know if he could pull it off or not, but he did!! We loved peaking out the window and watching them "hunt".

Next up was our egg hunt!! This is where we had to get creative. We usually have an Easter egg hunt in our backyard for our kids, but here we really couldn't do that. So we decided to do what we did for trick or treating...have an indoor hunt!! Our kids are so easy to please and they loved the idea!! So we sent them upstairs as we hid the eggs. Then called them down when we were done.

Ready, set....

GO!!!!!

Ever since we started this tradition (8 years ago), Ethan has always found the lucky egg. Rachel was SO excited because this year she was the lucky one!!! Do you know where she found it.............