Happy Easter

Here are some fun Easter facts to get us rolling:

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (March 20).

This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22), but that is pretty rare.

This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives. And only the most elderly (95 years old or above) have ever seen it this early. And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!

The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now!). The last time it was this early was 1913.

Now, don't you feel a little smarter?

And now, for some cute pics...

Saturday night... coloring Easter eggs

(Joshua retired to bed early, and so missed out on the colorfully stained fingers)

Sunday was a beautiful day...

She was so excited to wear her new Easter dress

and take her matching purse to church (full of goodies, of course)

And, Joshua looked so dapper wearing his first necktie.

We hope you had a wonderful Easter too!

(Thanks, Grandma Dorothy, for spending the day with us!)