Christ is Risen!

Oops. I haven't written here since January. Will has pretty much taken over with chronicling every single day on Facebook, but he doesn't usually include our photos. I find more and more than I go back to old blog posts to look up pictures or dates from our family history, so I still want to record things here "for posterity."

Amazing sky the night before Easter

I will start with yesterday. Easter is my favorite holiday of the year. To prepare our hearts in the week leading up to it we watched the videos from the God on Mute series. They're based on a book that I highly recommend, and I wanted to share that with the rest of my family.

Then Easter! After lots of late snow, we now have full spring weather and flowers everywhere. The leadership team at church had been really busy lately with setting up foundational ideas and documents for this young church, so we didn't meet about Easter plans until the Sunday before. We decided on a minimalist celebration. That doesn't mean we didn't celebrate, though. I think we had kind of a minimalist version in our home, too, but we touched on all our traditions, remembered Christ's resurrection, and enjoyed our day very much.

Of course, the blind dog decorated the eggs.

At Sunday school the younger group made a beautiful photo zone and took photos:

Afterwards we headed out to a church picnic at a park.

Will and I were some of the last to get there, and as we approached where the rest of the church group was, I just loved this tree:

But then I didn't get many more photos, because my hands were full:

(Oh, yes, that's the baby we were waiting for way back when I last posted here.)

We also really enjoyed having one of the young guys from the Capernaum club with us. He came to church by himself, sat with us, and then got permission from his mom to go on to the picnic with us, too. Asya took this photo; apparently we didn't get anything with our family. That's Bogdan, me (with Leo), Will, Lyusya, and Andriy.

I hope everyone had a beautiful Easter day and will continue to bask in the Easter season, remembering resurrection every day.