Easter 2025

It's time to document how we celebrated this most momentous holiday! Our actual Easter Sunday was spent alone (just the two of us after church services), but I love that through technology we can still include long-distance family members.

He's waited over sixty years, but Wayne finally got a one-pound solid chocolate bunny in his Easter basket! That's all - he doesn't like Peeps - but that's okay. He was expecting nothing, and it was fun being able to surprise him. And he's not even eating it all at once.

While we love eggs and bunnies, we are trying to improve at focusing on the Savior during the Easter season. After all, we are celebrating Him and his most precious gift to us! 

It's heartwarming to see our children trying to do the same. Three of them made Resurrection Rolls; that's a new tradition that I considered, and probably would have done with children in the home, but we stuck with Italian Easter Bread, creamed eggs (for breakfast) and roast lamb (for dinner).

Several of us participated in musical numbers at church. Our ward choir sang "I Believe in Christ." Some grandsons sang "My Heavenly Father Loves Me" including a new third verse (see below). Others sang in a special rendition of "Gethsemane." 

I was prompted to remember and share two family poems - Chiasma in the Spirit of Easter and I Was There, along with a few ideas from others with ideas for celebrating Easter.

Finally, here's the link to how we've celebrated Easter through the years.

Whenever I think of the Savior's hands in prayer at Gethsemane,
Whenever I picture Him healing the lame or causing the blind to see,
Whenever I think how He willingly gave His perfect life for me,
I marvel as gratitude swells in my heart,
For I know Heav'nly Father loves me.
Yes, I know Heav'nly Father loves me.