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Easter 2020

We love Easter around here!
flowers from our backyard for our dinner table

due to the pandemic we have a stock of eggs and extra for coloring :)



Audrey's Hulk egg

Henry's


a little vase for my room :)





 
I love digging into our things and setting a holiday table!

waiting for the meal




Lucy and Audrey worked on these bunnies with modge podge, magazine strips and these cute bunnies we found at Target for an essential Easter buying trip :)

My favorite holiday chef💗


determining size of slices, haha


It was a really simple and beautiful Easter Sunday.

We had small sacrament service at home and then shared our thoughts about the atonement. 
These quiet,  in home sacrament gatherings have been meaningful. 
The children have felt safe and comfortable sharing thoughts. 
For some of them they are just participating in a "sit n' git" at church which doesn't go far with teenagers.
Chester told us lately his "spiritual life" was growing, he said:
 "I shared my testimony and then shared that it was the first time I ever really listened to the sacrament prayer, wow". 
We are going to ask that Henry be ordained a priest at home which in light of his church life here, would be for the best anyway.
Who knows when we will meet together as congregations?
...in the meantime,
 this has been the biggest blessing to us personally to meet at home. 

I needed the reprieve.
I needed the peace of teaching our children instead of feeling like everyone else was teaching them at church :)
In my opinion,  Easter was perfect.

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