Saturday, April 11, 2009

Easter Weekend


Good Friday afternoon, the sky turned black and dumped buckets of rain which lasted all night. Even on Easter Saturday, the rain continued to pour. The weather helped us to appreciate the beautiful sunshine to which we awoke on Sunday morning.



On Saturday, we enjoyed dyeing our brown eggs beautiful colors (thanks for the dye, Nanny!).


We also continued another Choate family tradition, Resurrection Cookies. Katherine is beating the nuts which represent the soldiers beating Christ.


Sarah is tasting the salt which represents the salty tears that people cried.



And Olivia is sealing the tomb/oven after we put the cookies inside. The kids love waking up on Easter Sunday morning and checking the cookies. The oven here in our apartment didn't finish cooking the cookies before church, so we reheated the oven and the cookies finished while we went to church. It was a beautiful service! We arrived a little early, but the first (6:00 a.m.) service hadn't gotten out yet so we had to wait. When the 8:00 service finally began, the big building overflowed and many people sat outside under the trees. Lovely way to start this special day!

2 comments:

TheHarriman Family said...

Happy Easter Choate Family! We made the resurrection cookies too. It was fun to see all your pictures. They sure are yummy aren't they?!

Anonymous said...

Mimmis has surely enjoyed these pictures of the kids today. We love you.
Nahna