A glorious day

Easter was truly a glorious day for us. I love celebrating Jesus' resurrection, and this year we satisfied my need for traditional celebration by attending First Presbyterian Church downtown on Easter morning. Most of the time I am fine with our very non-traditional church plant, but on Easter I very much enjoy celebrating with lots of people and singing joyous hymns. So we did! The kids even got dressed up in fun Easter clothes. Luke chose these dresses for the girls, and since he rarely expresses any preferences about the clothes I buy for them, I happily agreed and we bought them beautiful dresses this year.

The rest of our day was rather quiet at home, eating ham and potatoes and asparagus. Quiet, that is, other than the sounds of our neighborhood coming to life in springtime - people playing basketball at the park across the street and our neighborhood wheelchair man who blasts the tunes as he rolls by daily. (He won't speak to me, so I'm not sure what his name is.)

Our cherry tree is in full bloom and is quite beautiful and smells amazing. The bees think so too. Yesterday you could hear the buzz from several feet away, there were so many bees pollinating our tree. But on the day we took the picture with Elizabeth in the tree, it wasn't quite as warm out and not as fully blooming, so it was safe for her to climb in it.