Holy Week...

Well if you have not noticed I gave up blogging during Lent. It was something I needed to do for myself and my family. I feel like I am so far behind with pictures and news, that's okay it will happen.

I thought I would check in one last time before Easter, after Easter I will be back on blogging like normal.

Holy Week is here and it will be a time of reading and praying with my family. If I could just sit in silence all this week in prayer I would, I know I can't but in my heart I feel I need to.

We will spend time in church Good Friday and then Church on Easter; I hope many of you can do the same. I really need to keep this time with the Lord as much as I can, so this will be kept short.

Today on Good Friday we Remember Matthew 27, and since I am not blogging till after Easter I am leaving a link to a blog I feel explains today and Easter very well.

Please check over at Women Living Well; she really did a great job this year.

May you and your family have a very safe and blessed

Easter!

 

Easter ~2012

Mommy has lots of kitchen help with 7 little girls

Our Easter started out rough but ended 2 days later with nothing but good memories. Sat night we had spent the evening decorating Easter eggs using natural dye methods. The picture above shows two of my daughters pulling onion peels off of onions, the skin will turn our eggs a deep red. Using onion skins is an old Polish tradition that we have grown to love in our home. We also tried using spinach which was not so great, Turmeric powder which gave our eggs a great yellow color, and then the yucky food dye in a box which turned our eggs bright blue and Orange.

These are definitely different than what you see in a box kit, but love went into them and we made them so I love them. Next year will try some new ideas for dyeing Easter eggs:)

Easter Sunday was just perfect and everything fell into place and mommy was happy, until.....

I found out our stove was out of gas, no gas until Monday:( At first I was upset and I bite my tongue and tried to figure something out. We had 3 hours before Church and I had meals to finish up before church that morning, what was I going to do. Well my husband always has great ideas so I asked what in the world do we do now we have no stove.

My hubby brought in a plug in burner and my Roaster, and said this should help until Monday. Well our big Easter dinner was on Monday and gas would be at our home Monday Morning so I calmed down and came up with a new menu for church. We brought Ham and cheese sandwiches to church which requires no cooking, Easter bread which was already done, Easter colored eggs also already done, and Whiskey-Glazed Carrots. The Carrots took forever to cook but they did turn out very yummy!

I forgot the picture of the carrots, and our Easter eggs are up above.

Church was wonderful as always and the fellowship with friends on Easter Sunday was so nice, what a great way to celebrate the day.

That afternoon when we returned home I had remembered I had not taken a single picture of anything or anybody at church. I really need to remember my camera I miss so much when I do that.

Monday 2 day of the Easter celebration

After all the excitement of opening spring baskets and searching for eggs and treats, we tried to get a picture of all the girls. This is the best I could get this year, if everyone just held still and faced the front, left each other’s hair alone, and stopped all the happy giggling it would have been just weird. This is life and my girls always have fun, well not always but most of the time:)

Spring baskets with new books and toys, and candy of course.

Easter egg hunt where each girl found a new hula hoop

Dinner was wonderful and I managed to get almost everything on my list done by Dinner time. We ateearlier than dinner hour which left plenty of time to visit with Grandma and play games as a family.

Our Easter feast included Veggie and fruit tray before dinner, baked ham, Green bean casserole, Au gratin potatoes, homemade Mac and cheese, cranberries, homemade rolls with Lamb butter, and a Cross Cake for dessert.

Our homemade rolls are really in the basket, but I forgot to lift the cover:)

 

Happy Easter!

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123/365 Claudia getting ready for her big day

124/365 Double Baptism Welcome sweet girls.

125/365 Katelin entered the church the same day. Thank you Pastor:)

126/365 One of the cakes brought to church.

127/365 The second cake which has been enjoyed

128/365 Claudia playing with her new toys from Easter

129/365 Easter Eggs

130/365  Fresh Shrimp

131/365 Elsa and little Otto

132/365 Egg hunt on our Pastors land.

133/365 Shooting on our Pastors land.

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114/365 Ready for Easter eggs

115/365 Such a pretty smile

116/365 Our Easter eggs

117/365 Hot Cross Buns right from our oven

118/365 Fresh Sweet Potatoes Ready for Easter Sunday

119/365 Easter Morning has arrived

120/365 Many Easter blessings

121/365 Claudia had her first Easter

122/365 A finished floor puzzle that my girls could not wait to do.

Our Lord Has Risen

Have a very Blessed Easter

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
¹⁸ “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” John 3:16-21