He Is Risen 2018

He is risen indeed.

What a glorious day it was! Easter Sunday has become one of my favorite days in the entire year and this one did not disappoint. We could not have asked for better weather and our church service was great! And bonus...the Easter bunny came and left the boys's baskets.

Time to open Easter baskets!

They got some clothes, some candy and some pool toys to use this summer.

Checking out the goods

Ryan checking out his Nekdoodle - we're hoping this
will help him stay afloat in the pool!

We had these yellow oxford shirts and ordered lavender seersucker bow ties and khaki colored suspenders. I had a yellow dress and Thomas had a shirt that matched the boys perfectly and an bow tie with purple in it so our family color scheme became yellow and lavender. We don't always (or ever, really) dress alike or have a family color scheme, but it just kind of worked out! The boys got a lot of compliments at church about how cute they looked! And they really did! None of my pictures turned out well at all. It was so sunny and the shadows were intense and I still don't know how to use my camera. Ugh. 

Church...

We are still worshipping in our gym (turned sanctuary) and have broken ground on our new sanctuary that will be built. We're hoping to be in the new sanctuary by next Easter! Anyway, the color coordination here was too cute not to document!

The McCourry's matched with our color scheme
and we ended up sitting together as well. Haha!

After the service, we took our family picture in front of the cross

Once church was over, we came home just briefly to grab our crock pot and head over to MaSha's for lunch. Our neighbors were out and about so we had them take a quick picture for us in front of all the azaleas, which are blooming so beautifully right now. I sure am going to miss these azaleas! 

Stokes was with MaSha so he was missing
from our family picture. :(

Lunch with MaSha...

MaSha hosted Easter lunch this year, which was so nice of her! She had Aunt Lorraine here and invited a few of her neighbors to join us as well. After hanging out and playing outside for a few minutes, we had a delicious spread of all sorts of traditional Easter dinner dishes. Everything was really beautiful and the food was great.

Rainey and the boys

Lorraine and the Peery 5

MaSha with her family

Later...

We had a low key afternoon following church and lunch. After some down time, we got back outside for a few reasons. It was too pretty to not be outside and the boys wanted to get in a little tee ball practice...oh yeah, and we had to pip our eggs that we dyed!

Ryan with the eggs

Practicing catching!

Time to pip!

The boys loved it!

The aftermath

We did not stop pipping until each and every egg was cracked on both ends, and some in the middle, too! Not trying to brag, but I did end up with the overall winner for the game. ;)

Easter was a fantastic day for us this year. We're thankful for significance of Easter weekend and especially for the good news that we get on Easter Sunday!* It's certainly a time to rejoice and we did just that. 

*Side note: each and every time we drive by a church, William will state, "Jesus died on that cross." I always have to press him to finish the story. I'll ask him, "But then what happened on Easter Sunday?" and he will answer that Jesus rose from the dead. Smart boy. One day, I asked him why Jesus died on the cross and he replied, "he died for us." I'm not sure that he really understands what that means, but I'm glad that he at least has the basics committed to memory. <3