Easter is my favorite holiday! This year it was lot of fun, and a great time to remember our Savior.
We were able to carry on quite a few of our traditions.
On Holy Thursday, we had a Passover dinner/Last Supper meal in our family room. I cook lamb in the crockpot with a bunch of middle-eastern seasonings, chick peas and tomatoes. It is SO delicious.
I made some haroset with the limited ingredients that I had. It wasn't amazing, but it was still yummy.
We used pre-made pie crust for our un-leaved bread. I bake it in the oven with honey and Italian seasonings. YUM!
We eat around the coffee table while sitting on the ground, to be as authentic as possible to how Christ ate with his disciples during the Last Supper. The boys thought it was really fun.
Over the next few days, the boys enjoyed the snow from the storm that came the same night we got home from our Carribbean trip.
On Good Friday, we got hot cross buns from the local baker, and we took Tanner to get a haircut.
Even with a cut, it was still pretty long. He liked it spiky, haha.
Eating hot cross buns at home. Tanner loved them!
Dallin loved the frosting, but not much else.
That night, we decorated Easter cookies!
On Saturday morning, we had a small Easter get-together. I really wanted to have a big Easter bash with everyone, but we kept it super simple since it was just a couple days after we got back from our trip. Snow was still outside, so we did an egg hunt inside.
This was our 4th year making rice krispy sculptures. The kids had fun, but they kind of strayed away from the challenge to make Easter related sculptures, haha.
Tanner made an Easter monster (no surprise to us!).
We had an Easter pirate skull.
I made an Easter cross and a nest with a baby chick.
That afternoon, Jeremy caught us reading Easter books.
The boys enjoyed this fun chocolate bunny game we found at Aldi grocery store.
That night, I enjoyed a relief society event (women's ministry at our church). It was really uplifting.
EASTER SUNDAY!!!
The boys were really excited about their Easter hats.
Tanner sang some beautiful songs with the primary children during the church service. He was smiling the whole time, which was really great to see because he has been very nervous in the past to sing in front of everyone. I was also able to sing a solo, and it felt so good to bare my testimony of God's love through song!
It was really funny trying to get a family picture at church because Tanner had a ton of hilarious poses. Above, he is tipping his hat with a bow. Below is one of my favorites. Great poses from both kids.
Here's the one that made it on Facebook.
Tanner gave a talk in primary in front of all the other children ages 3-12. We decided to together ahead of time what he would say and then I whispered in his ear what to say into the microphone during his talk. I'm a proud mommy! Here is what he said:
Page one says- My talk is about Jesus and the last supper. The day before Jesus died, he had a special dinner with his friends. His friends were called the disciples. They sat on a low table and used pillows for chairs. That's how people ate back then in Jerusalem. My family tried eating like this too, a few days ago. I helped get all the food on our coffee table in the family room. I got 4 pillows, one for Mommy, Daddy, Dallin, and me. We ate bread that is flat because Jesus ate flatbread. We ate lamb meat because that's what...
Page 2- Jesus ate at the dinner. I didn't like the lamb meat. We ate something kind of like homemade applesauce called haroset. I didn't like the haroset. The only thing I liked from Jesus' last supper was the bread and the water. Jesus broke the bread and ate it. Then he gave pieces to his friends and told them to eat it, just like we do for sacrament. Then he drank the wine and gave it to his friends to drink. He told them the bread and wine will remind us of Jesus. After the dinner, Jesus sang songs with his friends and he washed their feet. Then they went to the garden where Jesus prayed...
Page 3- In the garden Jesus prayed for you and me. He felt pain for us and took away our sins. Then the bad guys came and took Jesus away. The next day they put Jesus on the cross and he died. And today is Easter to remember when Jesus came back to life. It's called being resurrected. I believe all this really happened. I love Jesus and Heavenly Father and Easter time.
Our family decided to do a little Easter service. We put together some cards and fun gifts for our cousin, Elder Bryan and his companion who are serving full-time missions just 20 minutes from where we live. We dropped off the baskets at their apartment!
Then we went home to enjoy a delicious Easter dinner of salmon with honey. This is another tradition that we started about 4 years ago to remember how Christ ate fish and honeycomb with Peter, James and John after He was resurrected.
I love Easter! I am so grateful for the love that Jesus Christ has for me. He is my Older Brother, my Savior and Friend. I know He lives! And because of Him, I will live again, too!
