Easter blessings

We enjoyed a lovely Easter Sunday with family and friends. After church, we talked with our family in England, and then we went to Uncle Bill and Aunt Patty's house.

Melanie and Nick and the Roberts family also made the drive to Ventura; my parents are in New York this week so they couldn't make it.






A fantastic ham-and-lamb dinner feast awaited us; lamb is Bill and Patty's long-standing Easter tradition, since Jesus was the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world."










After dinner, the children painted eggs, hunted for eggs outside, blew bubbles and worked on Cora's Ventura fairy house.

 To work off some of the dinner, we took a walk to the beach. Yes, my aunt and uncle are blessed to live just a few blocks from the sand!

These five might as well be cousins!

After our walk, it was time for dessert - homemade strawberry shortcake. More yum.
Stace, the girls and I spent the night - such a great Easter!