Passover & Easter 2023

Easter really snuck up on me this year. I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden, it was Easter week. We weren't decorating eggs until Saturday and I don't like to hunt for them on the Sabbath so we decided to do Easter celebrations before the actual egg decorating. 

We set up the table with their baskets and goodies. 

I had ordered some egg tokens so we put those in plastic eggs and hid them. We put jelly beans in others and hid those in the kids' bedrooms.

Baylie woke up, walked over the eggs in her room and laid on the couch without even noticing the decorated table!

Jalen woke up about 30 minutes later and immediately noticed that Easter had happened. He was upset that we forgot to plant jelly beans to have them grow into lollipop suckers. Whoops!

That night the elders joined us for a Passover dinner and Easter egg decorating. I fully recognize the irony of eating a Passover dinner while decorating Easter eggs with the Mormon missionaries. That's how we roll!

David takes his decorating very seriously. He is always still decorating when the rest of us are finished.

But the finished products are always masterpieces.

My favorite thing is still to use my egg spinner. It's so fun!

Elder Allen and Elder Bahr had f un decorating.

Jalen was very creative this year.

Baylie (half way through a hairdo).

I was proud of my eggs!

We sent the elders home with their eggs and an Easter basket full of candy.

We ran out of time to take our traditional porch Easter picture. This is the best we got this year.

Aldi had tulips on sale. I love tulips.

The Andersons joined us for Easter dinner. It's always fun having friends over for special occasions.

Jalen and David were going to make a Greek boat from ice cream as a school project so we decided to add it to our Easter festivities. 

We added whipped cream for waves.

A friend shared these beautiful pictures of Christ as a black man. Representation matters and these are beautiful.

We had a beautiful Easter. Sunday was focused on the Savior and all week long we had read of the last week of his life thanks to Wendee Wilcox Rosborough's book. We love this book.