Easter Weekend

 

On Easter Eve we helped prepare the flowers for the Easter service and fill bags for the children and youth that would be in attendance. 

Easter Sunday brough treats in their Easter baskets, 

including the much requested Gen Z Bible. 

For those that have no idea what the Gen Z Bible is, it's stories from the Bible told in Gen Z (the girls generation) language. It's fabulous! 

Pictures with the flowered cross after the service had ended. 

Meanwhile, at Wachusett Mountain.....

Flat Jesus rides the chairlift. 

Flat Jesus takes in the view from the summit. 

Flat Jesus visits with the EMT on duty. 

Flat Jesus spent the day hanging out in Dave's pocket! The ski patroll team really got a kick out of this! We figured if Dave needed to be at Wachusett on Easter Sunday we might as well send him with one of the bendy Jesus' that we put in the Easter bags for the children at church! 

Before we left church, we helped remove the flowers from the cross and made bouquets to take home and invited others to do the same. 

Trader Joe's flowers never disappoint and will easily last a week or two! 

Easter baskets must always contain bubbles. 

This year instead of dying eggs the girls chose to use their new watercolors to paint them. 

And it was after taking this  picture that I promptly fell asleep for the next couple of hours (and then did not take a picture of how beautiful their eggs came out). For those who celebrated, we hope you had a lovely Easter. And for those that did not, we hope you had a lovely last weekend of March! xo 

On Easter Box Saturday

We began our day by opening the Easter Box (as is our tradition the day before Easter). 

 Thank you Grandma Joan and Grandpa Ron for the Easter treats! 

 After we did our usual Saturday chores/cleaning the girls turned out Lilac bush into our osterbaum (German Easter tree). 

 We came to this idea a bit on the late side so used plastic eggs rather than eggs we had blown out and decorated. We aren't keen on adding more plastic into the world but it works for now. And we all agreed that we need like one hundred more.

 One year we'd love for our osterbaum to look like this one!

 The girls then spent some time decorating the driveway. 

 We ended our Easter Eve fun with egg dying. 

We had planned to make Italian Easter bread today too but that will wait for tomorrow. 

We hope that you had as lovely a Saturday as we did!
Wishing those who celebrate a blessed Passover and Easter! xo