Happy Easter!

He is risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Happy Easter!!! Many blessings to you during this time of great hope and celebration!

This was one of the best Easters I can remember! Getting to be at home with family on Sunday to celebrate Easter, getting to go to the vigil and be part of a new Catholic's entrance into the church, having so much to pray for this Lent.. It was all very fruitful, which made this Easter one of the best!

We celebrated at our house this year. We made it a lunch time meal since Tom had to sleep in the afternoon. We were itching for the egg hunt anyway.

Spiral ham, potato casserole, resurrection rolls. Mom brought fruit and broccoli salad and Tom's mom brought her Oma rice. DElicious!Mike is signing Easter ..

The hunt is on!!

They were all over the house.

Xavier looked everywhere.

Philomena sat well with her grandma. She is slowly becoming used to the idea that she is not mom. Wait until she finds out that grandmas are even better.

Oh and Mena won her very first egg fight! This is a tradition that has been in our family so many generations that no one knows where it originally came from. Each person has a hard boiled egg and we crack them on another's egg until only one is left.
Congratulations Mena! :)

Here are the bunny carrott cakes we made. They were delicious AND cute!

The last egg is found in Nano's shirt pocket. It always goes to the youngest.

and the First annual Easter Triops monster costume. Hmmm... maybe this is one tradition that won't stick. She is cute though :)

During this Spring, a time of new beginnings, may the Easter season bring you great hope in our Risen Lord! Alleulia!