Eastertime!

While Christmas and Thanksgiving have long been my favorite holidays, being back near family this year for Easter for the first time since we've been married caused it to rise in the ranks to one my favorite days. We had a very special weekend of new traditions with family and wonderful friends. 

The festivities started with an Easter Egg hunt with sweet college friends and their children...

Let the hunting begin!

Sweet Camille

The extent of Jack's 'hunting'.

Check out Jack's awesome police car Easter basket from his Gilman grandparents. In it was our favorite new book, "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: The Military ABC Book", from Aunt Savannah and Uncle Will.

Mmmm...two of my favorite things in one treat! Good work, Bec!

and continued with an Egg Hunt and Brunch with sweet Nashville friends from growing up...

Aunt Liese, cousin Lyla, Jack, and Luke

Dad's fun Easter basket contribution

Chilling with the grandparents

Jack loves his Uncle Chad!

Then we had Easter morning with our sweet little family...

My two favorite guys.

Me and my sweet boy

and Easter dinner with all of our Nashville family!

Is this Luke's child, or what?

Sweet Easter baskets from Gammy and PopPaw and Niese and Da.

Coconut Lamb cake (my first cake mold cake), and Chocolate, Caramel, and Carrot Egg-Shaped cakes!

What a fun weekend of celebrating! While the cakes and parties and food and baskets were so very much fun, my favorite moment of the weekend was hearing Luke read to jammy-clad Jack from his Jesus Storybook Bible about the good news of this wonderful day:

"'Now everyone can come home to God,' Jesus said. 'Death is not the end of you. You can live forever with your Father in heaven because I have rescued the whole world."