Easter

With General Conference the week before Easter this year, there was a lot of talk about the corresponding events that take place during Holy Week.  There were such great parallels of doing the Hosanna Shout on Palm Sunday and then participating in the world fast on Good Friday. I tried to utilize that and focus our Come, Follow Me lessons on the different events of Holy Week. We barely even scratched the surface, but I feel like it made Easter a lot more meaningful for me.

Just as an insert about the worldwide fast on Good Friday. There seemed to be such a beautiful spirit the whole day. Even in our house there was just a special calm. I'm especially proud of my two older girls who took it upon themselves to really focus hard to participate in and make it through until dinner. Granted they sequestered themselves in their bedroom most of the day to avoid any temptation, but they did awesome! It ended up being such a great event to be part of.

On the Friday before Easter, we got to hop on over to Grandma Israelsen's for an Easter egg hunt! (Yup, that pun was intended. Just couldn't resist). That was so very kind of her to put it together for us and was such a great little outing. Even Jace got in on the action. Thanks so much Grandma!

In an effort to keep Christ the focus of our Easter Sunday, the Easter bunny visits our house on Saturday. The bunny has a tradition of sending the kids on a scavenger hunt to find their treats and it's always a big hit.

For breakfast Easter morning we have a tradition of making Resurrection Rolls. It has become another one of those "must do" traditions.  Apparently Allie is super enthralled with it all....

This is likely the last time we will celebrate Easter with a special Sacrament meeting in our home as the world awaits for the coronavirus pandemic to subside.  Hopefully these will all become special memories we can treasure. if anything, this year we found an even greater recognition of just how much we need a Savior.