Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter Celebration

I hope ya’ll had a wonderful Easter celebrating our Savior’s resurrection! The fact that He rose from the dead changes everything!
 
We had a pretty low-key Easter as a family. It was a little hard thinking about Easters in the past that were celebrated at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house. But we are so grateful for the hope we have in our risen Savior, and that we know we will all be joined together in heaven one day.



Sunday morning we were all up bright and early to do our egg hunt. I think 7:15 a.m. is probably the earliest we’ve ever done our hunt. It’s kind of funny; four of us are teenagers and Josiah is old enough to know the truth about the Easter bunny, but we just can’t give up the egg hunt. J



For breakfast we had coffee cake, bacon, and fruit salad. Then we scrambled to get out the door on time for church!

Church went very well, and we returned home in the early afternoon. We relaxed most of the day and enjoyed the beautiful weather (it was about 80 degrees and sunny.) The weather turned out a lot nicer than we were expecting; we woke up to a thunderstorm and heavy rain that morning. It was still raining when we arrived at church, but then it started to clear up. I took advantage of the day and took Mikey on a walk down the road to the creek. We observed the wood ducks and turtles while listening to the buzzing of insects and the faint whistle of a train. Such a wonderful afternoon! 



We had our fancy Easter feast for dinner. We took the opportunity to use our fine china.

We had delicious honey glazed ham, baked new potatoes, multi-grain crackers with mockamole (guacamole made with sweet peas), jello-beans with whipped cream, and dinner rolls with butter. It was incredibly filling!



For dessert we had a rich grasshopper pie.

And that was our Easter! We are so grateful for all God has blessed us with!
 

4 comments:

Kimber Scotland said...

You girls look beautiful! Your dresses look very nice! :) (The boys look nicely dressed too ;).

Our Resurrection Sunday was quite crazy...we drove 2 hours to my grandparents for Easter and 2 hours later mom went into labor! We thankfully arrived home without delivering the baby in the car. :) Now we have a new little girl in the family- Cassilyn Faith Wassenberg! :)

Have a blessed day!

Joyfully His,
Alexis

Ps- We are still praying for your family- keep your hope and trust in the Lord!

7 Eagles said...

Thanks for your comment, Alexis! And congratulations on the birth of Cassilyn! How exciting! I'm sure you will always remember Easter 2013. :-) I enjoyed reading on your blog why you named her Cassilyn. What a special way to honor your Aunt!

Thank you also for your prayers; we really appreciate them!

~Bianca

Kimber Scotland said...

I'm glad you enjoyed reading our blog post! :)

You're welcome for the prayers- that's what brothers & sisters in Christ are for!

Have a blessed week!

Alexis

7 Eagles said...

You have a blessed week as well, Alexis!

~Bianca