Category: Easter

Let Them Eat Cake!

I had a beautiful Easter Sunday and I hope you did, too. I didn’t end up making it to the sunrise service. My shift at work on Saturday rather did me in and sunrise came just a little too early. But one of these days I will experience that 🙂 After our regular church service I enjoyed a delicious lasagna dinner, complete with homemade sourdough bread, at my sister’s house. Afterwards, I unveiled this year’s Easter cake!

Reese’s Pieces goodness!

This little gem was a butter cake, but I added baking cocoa to give it a hint of chocolate. In all my years of cake baking I had never made peanut butter frosting. I will certainly make it again, but not too often, It was pretty hard to resist and I’m watching my A1C!

Instead of decorating it with Peeps (which make a cute topper, but no one ever eats them) I topped it off with Reese’s Pieces instead, just for fun. It was a filling and delicious cake. After a big dinner, I cut the pieces small. We only ate half of it, but I didn’t want to take the rest of it home – who needs that kind of temptation, lol? So on my way back through town I dropped it off at the store, a little Easter treat for my work peeps 🙂

My Easter cake is the highlight of my baking year. I’ve already got my eye out for something unique and special for next year. But I must say, the Reese’s Pieces cake will be a hard act to follow 🙂

A Beautiful Song for Easter, A Cool Night and A Morning Visitor

Happy Good Friday! It was cloudy and 70F this morning. Miss Emma and I managed to get two laps in before it started to sprinkle. By the time we left the park it had stopped, and the sun was trying to peek through the clouds. April definitely can’t make up her mind this week 🙂 I can’t remember many March or Aprils where we have hit the 80s for several days. It seems a little early to get the AC units out but by bedtime last night the house was sweltering, so I settled for the fans. Miss Emma was delighted.

Don’t bother me. I am enjoying my fan!

Cool doggie smiles 🙂

Last year a rotted tree stump broke in half and fell to the ground in my neighbor’s yard. This big guy came for breakfast this morning. I don’t usually get the large woodpeckers here. It was a delight to watch him.

Love me some beetles!

I love that in nature, nothing is wasted.

Off to make my Easter cake now, but I wanted to leave you with this beautiful worship song by Kari Jobe before I go.

Revelation Song (Lyric Video) – Kari Jobe

I hope you find some quiet moments today to reflect on the beauty and hope of Good Friday 🙂

Following in His Steps… Again

Last year I attended a program at a local church called Following in His Steps. It traced Jesus’ Holy Week journey into Jerusalem. When we learned they were having the event again this year, Marge and I wasted no time in reserving our spots. Though we went a year ago, it was just as wonderful and awe inspiring to experience it again. Just like the Easter story itself.

We met some friends for a delicious dinner at Casa Grande before heading to the church. They had called for severe thunderstorms in our area but other than a little rain while we were in the restaurant, the storm passed us by.

The program was so beautifully executed. If I hadn’t known I was in a church, I would have sworn I was entering Jerusalem.

At the “city gates” we were told that the Teacher had just passed through, and we might find Him in the marketplace.

Just outside the marketplace we encountered a sassy donkey and the most ginormous rabbit I’ve ever seen!

We missed Him in the marketplace and went to the upper room, where He and His followers had just finished eating the Passover meal. From there we followed His footsteps to the Garden of Gethsemane, where He had stopped to pray before being betrayed, arrested and taken before Pontious Pilot.

We viewed the site where He was crucified.

Though our group “just missed” Jesus at each phase of the journey, the presentation ended with an empty tomb and some good news – We don’t have to miss Him at all. He is with us and we can walk, not only in His footsteps, but in step beside Him every day!

As we move through Holy Week to Easter, this presentation gets my head and heart in the right place. I can hardly wait to go again next year!