I’ll admit that we didn’t get into the Easter spirit as much as usual for the primary reasons that 1) Easter comes waaaaay too early when it’s in March and 2) We spent several days in Utah for Spring Break prior to the big day.
We tried to make up for it on Easter morning with our traditional Easter egg hunt.
And a ladder to up the degree of difficulty.
Another tradition is for the kids to wear new Easter outfits to church. 
Check-out this cute Easter flashback from years past:
Since I’m always behind the camera, Hadley took a picture of the happy couple, which would have been swell had we not been photobombed.
After church there was family time, we watched the Easter story, read scriptures and had a delicious Easter dinner with Uncle Chris and Aunt Lisa.
I originally typed Uncle Christ. Freudian slip? Maybe he’s not as far away as we think.
“For Paul the light of Easter is no lantern swinging over a narrow, empty grave, but a light capable of dispelling the thick darkness covering the nations. Paul never tries to explain the resurrection of Jesus. He knows that to explain the ways of God in the light of human experience is like trying to explain the sun in terms of a candle. It’s the sun that makes sense of the candle. Likewise we don’t prove the resurrection; the resurrection proves us. The Easter faith doesn’t ask us to believe without proof, but to trust without reservation. Don’t think your way into a new life, but live your life into an entirely new way of thinking.”
-William Sloane Coffin, The Riverside Years.
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