I love Easter. I love the hope of spring, fleeting as it may be in our area.
No sooner do the bulbs hit, than perennial shrubs break free of their winter slumber.
Most Easter holidays we spend informally. We do an Easter Egg Hunt with the school my mother-in-law teaches at.
Easter 2008
It was cool to see the new kids appear on the scene some years, and see how much my older ones have grown.
Easter 2010
I try to capture a dressy picture of all the kids each year. And with kids – that whole sitting still and getting a photo taken thing?
Sometimes that looks this.
But every so rarely you move your finger at just the right moment and you capture something like this.
And that makes me smile.
Whatever else we do around the Easter holidays; the eggs, the fun, the flowers, the new life…we never forget that our faith is what gives us the reason to celebrate in the first place.
Easter is the amazing holiday of dichotomy – a holiday that celebrates a death? But of course, for Christians it is ultimately a celebration of life. I think that’s why I love being with my family – focusing on the life we have together – during the Easter holidays.
How do you celebrate Easter?
This post was written as a compensated part of the Hallmark campaign but all opinions and photos are mine.
Those are beautiful photos!
We celebrate Easter by going to church (most years), then we come home and have an Easter Egg Hunt. We finish the day with a delicious Easter dinner with the entire family. Easter is a time to be together with family and reflect on what life is really about and how and why we are here.
I teared up by looking at the photos of your family. Your children have grown so much and their precious smiles… We still color Easter eggs, have a family dinner and spend time together on Easter Sunday. I miss the Easter egg hunts, but being together is what matters most.
How much fun!! I love the pictures of your family. That’s the best way to spend the holiday, with the ones you love.
We are building our own traditions now that our children are getting older. We have a church egg hunt on Saturday, services on Sunday and this year I want to create Resurrection eggs for them for our egg hunt at home and talk about what each symbol means regarding the resurrection of Christ and why He means so much to us.
Thanks for this awesome post!!