Our Easter.

 

Our Easter Sunday this year was extremely chill. We went to sacrament meeting and listened to talks about the Savior. We came home and since we had leftover cascarones from last year we sneakingly cracked a few on each others heads. It was still fun, but we all felt that it would have been more fun if we had the girls with us. Oh, those were the days when we cracked confetti eggs on our heads, had a big bbq easter dinner and go for a walk in the park! This time we took a drive to the temple in Maryland to take in the spirit of the Lord and reflect on his resurrection. Holy Week is something we always appreciate and try to reflect on those days where he went through so much. I feel that future easters will be very different from now on. Different as in not having huge gatherings, and just focusing on what's important which is Jesus. Especially during Holy Week. Who knows, maybe our gatherings will be big again when we have grandkids! 

Easter Sunday!

Be prepared for a big photo dump like this one because besides Christmas- the easter season is my favorite holiday. I feel that the older I get along with my kids these holidays that are meant to not only remember "the reason (Jesus Christ) for the season" they are also for us to remember to have fun! Our kids are getting older but these two who are left to raise in the home will never grow up. Apples and trees...I mean, they do take after Jon and I and I know there will come a time when they'll seriously grow up, but I feel as if they will be a kid at heart even when they are in there 20's and 30's. Aside from Easter egg hunts, cascarones (confetti eggs) is a tradition that I grew up with and have kept it within my family since my kids were toddlers. I absolutely love making these but to be honest as I've gotten older I have started ordering them on eBay! Making them for the past 20 plus years have been a huge labor of love but it's time for me to just order them instead of making them! LOL!

Our Easter Sunday!!

To be honest...as I get older making cascarones has become tiresome even for the kids. I love making them but in all honesty I'm most likely going to start buying them. Maybe, depending on my mood I will make a few but now that the kids are older they would rather crack them on peoples heads than make them. LOL! It was so much easier and funner to make when they were little. Oh how I loved watching these two fill them up with confetti and then decorate them. Those were the days. Now, I think I'll just buy them. Glad I had quite a few heads to crack this year because we had the missionaries from our church over for easter dinner. They had never heard of cascarones and were a little nervous when I said that the kids had a "surprise" for them. 

Our Easter -2021

Spring has sprung all over the garden state and all I want to do is just play outside, stay away from my phone and dnothing! Of course with the Easter holiday we just had didn't quite do that because I love to take pictures. We did a little bit of everything over easter weekend. We watched general conference, cracked cascarones on each others heads, and we even had ourselves a little Easter egg hunt. The kids still love being egg hunters, and it was a beautiful day for it. No clouds. No rain. Just pure sunshine. We went to the same spot we went to last year before Lexie left on her mission. We've had our egg hunts in the past at Central Park or Roosevelt Island but Covid hit and well, you know how that goes. We have kept the past two Easter Sundays low key and close to home. Focusing on the Savior is what matter but we also put fun and laughter in our day! It's times like this that I can relive over and over again. Repeating it multiple times a month! I just love these kiddos of ours and the time Jon has to spend with us. He works so hard all week and most weekends he'd like to rest but he sacrifices his sleep to spend outdoors with us. It was a special and uplifting day and hope y'all had a wonderful Easter weekend too! 

Our Easter Weekend In 2020.

Easter weekend this year compared to other easters in the past 25 years with kids was extremely different. We had our own little church service at home, and a wonderful Sunday school lesson on The Savior taught by yours truly. We had our traditional egg hunt along with cascarones that we cracked on each others heads. The kids were high on sugar all weekend and we rested all day on Sunday. No matter what is going on in the world we carefully spent it alone and together secluded and close to home. Although different, it was a beautiful sunny weekend. One that I will remember always.