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 Sunday

 

Our day began bright and early with the Easter Sunrise service run by the confirmation class. 

The service was over in just under twenty minutes, which was lovely given that it was twenty-nine degrees out! The teens all did a fabulous job, and it was a perfect way to start our Easter Sunday! After the sunrise service, Bonnie had invited David, the girls and me to join her for breakfast! We were grateful to be able to spend time with her before heading back across the street to get ready for 10:00am festival worship! 

After breakfast we set the 'Twas the Morning of Easter story walk up! 

The girls relax with some bubbles before everyone arrives. 

Our traditional family picture. I had heels on for the service but switched afterward to help bring the cross out (though by the tume I got there they already had it outside). 

We left when it was dark so I didn't get a picture first thing in the morning but by the time we got home the sunlight was perfect for picutre taking! 

Realized after I took the first picture that I had forgotten the Bonne Maman hazelnut chocolate spread I ordered for their Easter baskets! 

Funny that I ordered this sweet bunny before Violet was part of our family! 

And one that was reporesentatie of Clover (though that was ordered for that very purpose)! 

Sweet Miss Violet, one of our very own Easter bunnies! 

Everything about yesterday was absolutely lovely! From the weather, to the company, to two wonderful services, to the joy that the Easter baskets bring and our two sweet buns, we couldn't have asked for a more fabulous day! Happy Easter, friends! We hope your day was just as wonderful as ours was! xo