Pesach

First off, I just want to clarify,
As most of you know, we aren't Jewish, so it might seem kind of strange that we keep so many of the Jewish traditions. Well it shouldn't be. The Jewish traditions are so beautiful and meaningful and are centered around God and the family, can it get much better than that? I am a follower of Yeshua (Jesus) and just in case you didn't remember, Yeshua was a Jew and kept these same customs. We SO support Israel and know that God has not abandoned his people or the land of Israel itself and we want to do our part in keeping these traditions alive and also to raise awareness to other Christians the importance of honoring Israel and its people.
So basically we celebrate these things to honor our own Jewish roots, as in the Jewish roots of our faith. If you still think it's strange, well sorry, I probably think something's strange about you too.

So obviously since we aren't Jewish, we don't follow all the rules to a T, case in point, my mom made Challah last night :) (during passover you don't eat anything with yeast in it), also the fact that we celebrated Pesach (Passover) last night instead of Saturday.

We have a joke around our house that no matter when a feast starts, we always celebrate it on Shabbat. It's just easier that way, because we are all so accustomed to getting together on that night.

So anyways, the entire evening is a lot of fun and can take hours to go through. We did an abbreviated one, but it still took awhile.
The group

It starts off with one of the kids asking a question:


And then the lighting of the candles


Then starts the evening. It is really intricate and I don't want to go into it all here, but if you are interested in reading more about Passover and the Seder that we did last night, you can go HERE

Here we are eating our Matzah Ball soup


Jodie and Sophie



Brad about to eat the Karpis (you dip it in salt water)


The Seder plate


Dad about to hide the Matzah


My cutie


Kid's table


Me showcasing some Matzah. During Passover you don't eat anything with leven in it. And boy, in Israel, (particularly Jerusalem), they are so serious about it. During times I've spent Passover in Jerusalem, I've eaten hot dogs with Matzah, sandwhiches, hamburgers, pizza, it was my breakfast toast... you eat it with everything! And you can't even buy beer in some places because beer has yeast in it. No pasta... that was a tough one for me. By the end of passover, all you want is a nice hunk of bread to knaw on.


My niece Ashlyn eating the horse radish


My daughter was bored during the Seder, so proceeded to take all the magnets in reach off the fridge and bring them to me


And daddy put them on his forehead, because, what else are you suposed to do with them!


One of the things is that you are suposed to lounge, so this is Christina lounging


And Jon and I lounging-- Jon has issues


Tiffani was master of the lamb shank


Here are the kids dancing to the song Dayaynu- note that my daughter gets so excited dancing that she has to like do a gymnastic move. She has never done that before, it was so funny! She pulled a Kadyn.


Ashlyn got the camera and so took some pics:








My dear friend Abby and I


My niece Maddy found the matzah that was hidden so she won $2. But then we gave Ash and Kade $1 just because they are cool and got 2nd and 3rd place

The Matzah Winner


2nd place


3rd place


Lyric and I, (you can tell I was "celebrating" by this point, hey it's tradition to drink a lot of wine!)


So as you can see, last night was super fun! Though I did wake up with a terrible headache!

Now to leave you with the traditional ending of a passover seder


Love to all!