We had a really lovely, laid back Easter this year.
Sharing some photos from our day, in parts...

Easter Dawn

Justin was up at 4 a.m. to start the hams we were making for Easter breakfast at church. The girls were up at dawn to see what the Easter Bunny brought them.

Them spoiled, they are.

Also a little egg hunt around the house. The E.B. always did Russell Stover marshmallow eggs, turns out he did the same thing for my dad when he was a boy.

Easter traditions.

Easter Breakfast

 

I just adore our little church and everyone there. We put on a good Easter breakfast every year,
we really do. 

 

Can you see my Pyrex? 

 

Mmmmelon balls!

 

I can never stop myself from taking photos of my friend Jessica's baby. Little Eva! She's so sweet!

 

The Service

I love our church at Eastertide.

 

We played Praise to the Lord the Almighty on handbells. 

 

I bet you didn't know I'm a professional musician, did you? Ha! 

I rang the G & F bells not so much like a pro.

 

Easter Sunday is my #1 favorite hymn day of the entire church year. 

 

The Hunt

 

My little church also puts on a mean egg hunt each year, too.

Not that the moms fight over eggs for their kids, but there are SO many eggs hidden on our land that each child gets a basket full. 

 

Violet learned quickly this year. 

 

We forgot our pretty baskets at home and had to use grocery bags. 

 

Family Portraits

I had my camera set all wrong, so this overexposed shot is the best we got of our family at church. 

This is our Vicar's family, I'm working on getting updated photos for our church website so I wanted one of all of them. Good looking family!

Vicar made it hard for me to get good staff photos, I'm trying to update our church website and thought Easter would be a good time to get a photo of everyone. He kept photo bombing, haha, I'm half tempted to use these on the website. But I'll refrain...

My parents & our girls.

Now, here is truly our best family photo from Easter Sunday.

I know, we're all so photogenic. Try not to be jealous.

It's hard to get good photos of the girls, especially the Violet child.

I just love these little shoes!

I love having little girls I can dress up.


Easter Dinner

We went to my parents house for Easter dinner.

And hello bloody mary.

My mom always says, "Nothing fancy, I'm no Martha Stewart!"
But really, she did a lovely job decorating her house and setting the table.

I mean, look at this salad.

She's too humble, everything was SO lovley.

Here's me.

And just another shot of my perfect children, I can't help it.
Again, don't be jealous of how photogenic we are:

Just when the girls started to get antsy at the dinner table, Grandma busts out a Jell-O bunny. For the win, Grandma!

And take a look at this, because it's the SECOND lemon meringue pie I made on Easter Sunday. That's right. I made two after my first one flopped...

Turns out lemon meringue pie, which is to Easter what the pumpkin pie is to Thanksgiving, is a REALLY fussy thing to make from scratch.


Happy Eastertide!
Christ is risen!

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