easter celebration

4/25/2017

hi! currently sitting in spyhouse in front of a great big window watching the rain come down. i'm so glad i'm right were i am on a rainy tuesday. i just wish they weren't blaring the fray. ha. i know i'm very particular about music and believe in its power to make an atmosphere so much, but i just need to let some things go. letting it go. ...trying really hard. ha.
anyway. i wanted to share some pics from our easter because the day really stands out as beautiful in almost every way to me and i love sharing the things i find beautiful.

well let's start out with glorious sun, huh?! i slept over at my parents' house in my old room the night before easter and waking up to such glory after the gray weekend was exactly right. i just feel really strongly that the earth should pay respect to such sacred days as good friday and easter, honoring their Maker, and this year i was proud of it, haha! it was cloudy and sprinkly on good friday and gray until easter when the sun shone in glory. good job, earth!

haha, on the wednesday before easter at church with my high schoolers, the leaders asked us to raise our hands if we still got easter baskets, like it would be funny if high schoolers even still got them and i raised my hand with a few teenagers. raised that hand REAL PROUD. yes, i am almost 24 years old, and yes, that is an easter basket from my mom and dad.

my beautiful fam! everything is made better when paige is in town.

this freakin cheese/fruit board was as unreal as it looks! my parents hosted easter at their house this year and they freakin blew me away. i was like where are we?? who even are you guys?? ugh, they're so good at making everything, even food, beautiful, and it's one of the things i admire most about them.

one of my favorite moments from the day was when grandpa walked in with that lil plant! OH! his little collar! i love that man so much.

i mean, COME ON. mom made those little flag labels for each kind of cheese. WHAT.

one thing has never been denied about the speichs... we love cheese. LOVE cheese. mm! my kinda fam!

paige and dave buddies! they are beautiful humans and they really love each other a lot.

aunt wendy made this beautiful cake for us, with flowers!!! flowers on the cake!! i decided for my birthday all i want is a cake covered in flowers and a bruno mars hat with twenty-four in roman numerals like the diva div i am. (;

thank you, mister sun.

that sun on my beautiful mama. the most self- sacrificial one.

happy belated easter! but really i think we should be celebrating easter every day. easter is a year-round holiday, but i love that on this one day, we dress up and rest together and make/eat really good food and invited our loved ones to the table and sing songs. that is the most beautiful thing. i hope you celebrated really well, and if not, good news is Christ being alive is never not true, so celebrate tonight or tomorrow or the next day, huh?!

6 Comments

Gran Torino

5/8/2017 12:28:04 am

No doubt you're a beautiful woman but you act and post like a 15 year old. Grow up and stop being a sappy tweenager. Guys don't want a girl who spills her secrets all over the net. Being discrete is a virtue to a real man ;-)

Paige Speich

5/8/2017 07:57:11 pm

Actually, I would have to respectfully disagree. I've been following this blog for many years and I have been constantly encouraged by her vulnerability, authenticity, and creativity which I feel is lacking in today's society. I don't think it was necessary or very "discreet" to comment such hurtful words like this. I think Alexi is very mature and writes about really important and real things that a lot of people relate to and need to hear.

Isaac

5/8/2017 08:10:46 pm

Hey man, I think your comment is pretty out of place. Not only are your words hurtful and unhelpful, but I wonder how it makes sense for you to make blanket-statements on behalf of all men. I as a man, actually really respect Alexi and her ability to be genuine and vulnerable in her life, which also happens to be portrayed in her blog. I get that you may have an opinion, but cutting down others really isn't going to get any of us anywhere.

Holl

5/8/2017 08:54:14 pm

Hey there. I noticed that you called Alexi beautiful. I cannot express how much I believe in that statement. However, I actually think we disagree entirely on what "beauty" means. I think that Alexi embodies a beauty that is whole, a beauty that is unquieted and unafraid. Reading her posts reminds me that it's okay to struggle with the things that I do, that it's good to celebrate the small things in life, and that we should in fact be knocked on our feet by the majesty of God. Unfortunately, it seems that you have a slanted view of beauty, one that is confined by your standards of what a woman should be, and boxed in by your perception of femininity. I'm sorry, but it's actually quite wrong for you to place any expectation that is belittling on any woman, and it's actually incredibly wrong to place your ideas on Alexis blog, a place where she is free to celebrate beauty and works to understand God. Women like Alexi teach women like me to be more than I think I am, less of what I am not. Women like Alexi teach women like me to be bold and brave in the face of insecurities, even in the face of comments like yours. Women like Alexi teach women like me that being a woman is not defined by the people or friendships or men around me, but by the God who designed me as I am to be.

Food for thought.

Ariel Yang

5/11/2017 11:07:15 am

Hello there! I'm sure you're gleaning this off of only a few (if not one) of Alexi's blog posts. Keep reading, I'm sure some of the words she "spills" might be of encouragement or insight for you. They have been for me. And I strive to have the level of courage and transparency she beholds to be as humble as she is. Also, I'd have to disagree with your opinion that she has to "grow up." Alexi's wisdom and knowledge cannot be judged by this blog alone. And as you have followed up in a separate comment, having talked with her "many times", I think you'd come to find her as someone who's wisdom is beyond her years. And if you have talked to her many times (and possibly may even be acquainted with her) perhaps these words may have been better received were it told as a friend rather than anonymously by a pseudonym.

5/8/2017 12:55:40 am

Sorry, I meant discreet. And I know you think I'm trying to trash you but we've talked many times. TMI

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