Easter 2015

My family on Easter (2015)

Easter may be my favorite holiday of the whole year. More than Christmas. More than Thanksgiving. There are all sorts of reasons why that's the case, including my faith, which is the reason we celebrate it in the first place. It's the most joyful day of the year for Christians and it's one that people observe all over the world - I love that! This weekend, we got to spend Easter with my family and a couple of friends and it really was an incredible, joyful celebration.

One of my new favorite traditions is going to an Easter Vigil on Saturday night at our old church in DC. Since my family lives in that area, we were thrilled to have a chance to go back to that event this year even though we live in Philly now. If you live in the DC area, this is something you don't want to miss! Head over here to read more about it. And go next year. Trust me :).

Spending time with family and friends in a super relaxed, low key way was also one of the highlights of this past weekend. Of course, there was lots of FOOD involved throughout the weekend and we were stuffed to the gills by the time we left on Sunday!

One fun thing that was a bonus to our already yummy meals for the weekend was a fresh fruit basket delivery from Shari's Berries*.

We added some of the tangerines and pears to our fruit salad for pre-church brunch and they were delicious!

After lunch, we had quite the feast of leg of lamb, rosemary potatoes and brussel sprouts, and topped it off with way too many chocolate covered strawberries and cute little Easter-themed brownie pops (also from Shari's Berries). I have been forbidden from including photos of people eating them since biting into a chocolate covered strawberry isn't exactly the prettiest thing to watch :). Does this photo get your mouth watering, or what? Those brownie pops were more like fudge in the middle - so rich and so good.

When we weren't eating on Sunday, we were spending time outside hanging out, chatting and even playing a little bit of croquet! We were very thankful to (finally!!) have beautiful spring weather that allowed us to be outside for a good chunk of the afternoon. Sadly, because we're just hitting spring after a brutally long winter, there were no cherry blossoms out yet (we attempted to spot some downtown on Saturday, which was a fail, ha!).

This weekend was one to remember. On our drive back to Philly with our friends last night, we all remarked on how much we enjoyed the whole weekend. It was marked with joy, gratitude, laughter and fun celebration. All in all, I'm very thankful for it! I hope you all had wonderful Easter weekends as well, wherever you spent them, and that you have a great start to your week!

*A huge thanks to Shari's Berries for providing the yummy treats in this post for their #EasterJoy campaign. All opinions are my own. See my full disclosure at the footer of the blog. 

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Six Simple + Pretty Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

I don't know about y'all, but my craft-loving side comes out in full force when it comes to Easter eggs. I can't wait to dye eggs when we have our own kids one day. For the time being though, I rounded up some of my favorite simple and pretty egg-decorating ideas from around the web to share with y'all. In need of inspiration for next weekend? You've come to the right place. I also have an Easter Pinterest board if you need more ideas!

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1 | Crafberry Bush | Golden Speckled Eggs

2 | Joy Ever After | White Painted Natural Brown Eggs

3 | Country Living | Ombre Easter Eggs

4 | Kaley Ann | Natural Brown Easter Eggs

5 | Oh Joy | Neon Dip-Dyed Eggs

6 | Paper & Stitch | Sharpie Easter Eggs

Hope y'all let your craft sides out this Easter! I can't wait to use some of these ideas myself.

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Hand-Lettered Easter Print {Free Download}

Over the past couple of weeks, I've truly been in awe of the new life that spring brings. After a brutal winter, I found myself longing for spring to come even more than usual this year. When I saw those first daffodils and crocuses poke their heads out from the earth a few weeks ago, I cheered them on knowing that they were pioneering the start of a new season. A week later the tulip trees started blooming. Those were quickly followed by my favorites - cherry blossoms. I biked down to the Tidal Basin to see the "official" ones during the early part of their peak bloom and was overwhelmed as always by their beauty. {I'll be sharing the photos I snapped of them in a post later this week.} Spring reminds me, as it does every year, that winter's desolation does not last forever and that new life will always come again.

Easter too is a celebration of new life, but carries much more significance. This week Christians celebrate the fact that Jesus died on a cross...and then came back to life. For us. Death came on Good Friday, but it turned to life three days later on Easter Sunday. Kind of like going from winter to spring. In my mind, this is the most important holiday of the year and the most joyful one the Church celebrates. I for one can.not.wait for Sunday, which is why I created this hand-lettered print that y'all can download below. Inspired by the colors of the tulip trees and cherry blossoms, this watercolor-esque print holds the phrase that embodies the most important fact of Easter: "He is risen indeed. Alleluia!"

Feel free to print it out (designed as an 8x10 - print on card stock and trim to size), hang it up, and share it with your family and friends! It also comes in blue if pink isn't your thing :).

{Download the "He Is Risen Indeed" Print Here}

Creative Bits | 16: Modern Easter Eggs

Happy Easter weekend everyone! I'll be spending much of this weekend at church - starting tonight with a Good Friday service. Tomorrow night we'll be going to an Easter Vigil and then on Sunday we get to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead - hooray! Easter is always such a joy-filled weekend, and I'm really looking forward to it.

I truly love Easter for the reasons mentioned above, but I also can't help but love some of the adorable decorations and crafts that pop up around this time of year. I'm particularly smitten by the pretty and modern designs I've come across lately on Easter eggs. If you're looking for some last minute ideas, or you're planning to get your egg-decorating on this weekend, here are a few of my favorites to get you going.

| brown & white painted eggs | color block eggs | washi tape eggs | watercolor eggs | tattoo calligraphy eggs | sharpie eggs |

Have a lovely Easter, y'all!

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