Easter Time

  Did you have a Happy Easter?  Celebrating a risen Saviour with you!  What a precious gift, eternal life.   We had a wonderful weekend! 

  First up, Family Fun Day on Friday....

 Off to see Breakthrough, what a fabulous film of faith and the power of prayer.  Cried the whole way through!  It is a must see!

  I am loving the theatre down here.  We rarely budget to take the whole crew to a movie because for that price, we could just BUY it, right?!
  it is only $6 a ticket regardless of when you go, or what ages, and it is a really nice reclining seat theatre to boot!

Some families dye eggs, we used to.  NOT in the RV! LOL!  This year we picked something different.....  ;)

​TIE DYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Outside.  ;)

   It was messy, our hands were many colors and several outfits had whoopsies. (nothing a little lemon oil couldn't get out, worked like a charm!)

   Once we got out old lake swimsuits to wear during the rubber band clipping/rinsing process, I could relax a bit more.  It took 2 days in all from start to finish, but in the end, cute and fun summer clothes can be enjoyed!

  3 library bags, a ball cap, bandana, swimsuit coverup, 2 kitchen towels, and several t-shirts and tank tops were made before we ran out of dye. 


   It was a lot of fun! :)

  Our church has several service times to choose from, and we like to go on Saturday night.  Easter was a bit of a different schedule, so we went late Saturday afternoon, for the 4:00 service. 

 IT WAS AMAZING!  Wow.  SO powerful.  

​  We had tickets for early entry so we got to skip some of the crazy lines.  We are so thankful to have found a wonderful church home down here for the winters.

 They closed out service with this amazing song........ CHILLLLLLLLS

  With church done on Saturday, that left Sunday to sleep in, and have some fun before we had to make ham, cheesy potatoes, steamed green beans, etc.  We had already made our dessert Saturday so it could get cold.
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 You might remember the recipe from our old blog, 4 little Ferguson's, all my favorite recipes are there and we use them every week!  God is good to give me a digital cookbook for our simple living!

 White Chocolate Lemon Blueberry Trifle
 
  We use our doTERRA essential oils for everything!  So instead of messing with the zest, we just added 2 to 3 drops of doTERRA's pure lemon oil  to our fluff. YUM!  You will love it!
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  Before it got too hot, we played a game outside, like Capture the Flag, except we did it EGG style.  Each kid had to go get their 3 eggs, ONE at a time, without getting tagged and frozen by their opponents.  We had a ball!  Boys won round one, girls round two, then we mixed up teams and kept playing until we were too hot and hungry.

  The night before, Dale and I stuffed 3 eggs with 2 kinds of candies from the local farmers market, and a $5 bill per kid.  They don't get candy often, so we knew they might be more excited about that than anything.  ;)

  The girls found the CUTEST tablecloth, paper goods and even a matching pillow, for our outdoor dining area.  We eat most our meals outdoors since we all fit comfortably at this big picnic table.....

Avery set the table so nice and made everyone a name tag.  She placed some peeps at each spot.....somehow Paxton's didn't make it to lunch?!  ;)  It was all delish!

  Boys headed to go fish and girls headed to the pool to read and relax the afternoon away.....

  When the boys got home, we finished up our Easter celebration.  We don't do easter baskets for resurrection day anymore, just simple things like a candy treat for our small RV lifestyle.  So I hid their chocolate little bunny in the RV and each kiddo got a clue card where to find it.....

  Can you figure out the clues?

  They found them pretty quickly and then we played "Warmer" until they found the final gift.  You know the game, cold, cold, colder, warm, warm, warmer, warmer, WARMER< BURNING HOT, you are on fire....depending on how closely they get to the hidden item?

  Well, let's just say things got noisy when Dale started clanging and screeching like a broken fire alarm.  They laughed and laughed as they hunted ALLLLL around him.  Sneaky ol' daddy had his foot on the rug, on the movie the whole time. They were SO close the entire time they were searching!

   We watched our movie, went on a family bike ride and called it a day.

    Hope you all  had an amazing and happy Easter!

  So thankful for a Father who loved us enough to send His son that we might have LIFE...

Hugs, T