Easter

Easter felt quite different this year, but it was still enjoyable to celebrate as a family. 

We started the festivities with making glitter eggs the night before. 

It was the first time we used our chicken eggs and when we dyed them, a lot turned out with cool earthy tones. Also, I had prepared early and done all the Easter shopping before everything shut down, just in case we couldn't go to the stores. Then I proceeded to eat the Easter candy and buy more later. Happens every year!

 We made some Easter cinnamon rolls and had a Sunday lesson at home. It was strange to not go to church on Easter and we missed that a lot but we made the best of it.

Then we went out to enjoy the beautiful sunshine. Charlie ended up learning how to use the push mower and helped a neighbor mow her lawn. Miles and Edwin climbed the giant hedge and we enjoyed some good hammock time.

Miles also made up this song, and I liked how Edwin's arms really got into it! ha! It's super catchy and we still sing it frequently 

Anyway, once the cinnamon rolls had cooled they needed to be eaten.

 Later Max brought down his guitar, which the boys didn't even know we had and tried to put music to Miles' newly created song. With our lack of guitar and song writing skills, we didn't get very far.

Before Easter dinner, which I think was ham... Miles and Max went out to gather flowers form the yard.

 We enjoyed our dinner then we decided to try an Armenian tradition that I had never done before. In Armenia, they always dye their eggs red (they use onion skins, but I forgot about that and we just used our egg dying kit, we'll try again next year) then all the kids play a game where each child hits the end of their egg with another persons egg and say a phrase something like, "Jesus has conquered death" if your egg is the one to crack you have to give it to the other person. You do this until all the eggs are won!

It was pretty fun and memorable! And that was our quarantined Easter.