Happy Easter!!!

I hope you had a wonderful Easter!!! Believe it or not, I got to do photography on Easter! My church is slowly trying to take pictures of all our members and since many who don't come regularly come on Easter, they do pictures between services. I'm not good at finding words to explain Easter but it's simply amazing. I have so much joy about this holiday.

My church does Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services, and the somberness of them probably multiplies the joy of Easter morning.

How do you celebrate? My brothers and I always help my Grammy "decorate" (for lack of a better word) the church after Maundy Thursday service. Everything gets draped in black, including the statue of Jesus, waaayyy up high! Now that my brothers are tall, they get that job.

On Good Friday, we dye Easter eggs at Grammy's house. This year, in addition to regular dyes, my cousin MacKenzie and I did some fun ones because my friend gave me a kit for my birthday.

Easter Sunday, we all go to church together - my family, my mom's parents, and my aunt and uncle and cousins. Our youth group puts on an Easter breakfast so we eat breakfast there. After church, we spend the day together at Grammy and Grandpa's house. The cousins do an Easter egg hunt (my brothers and I help hide them now :) and my mom does Resurrection eggs with them. For those who don't know what those are, they are twelve plastic eggs that have little items inside that represent parts of the Easter story: a donkey, a piece of cloth, a crown of thorns, three pieces of silver, etc. The last egg is empty because the tomb was empty on Easter morning!!! We have gotten some awesome responses over the years as little kids have given answers to what each item is. One year, in response to the crown, my cousin said, "it's a crown of pokes!".

I hope you had a blessed Easter and if you want, I'd love to hear what traditions you do with your family!

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed, Alleluia!