Easter Festivities

We had a great week celebrating the Easter Season. The weekend before Easter we attended an Egg Scramble at Vet's Park, which was more like a free for all in the mud. Great fun for the kids, not so much fun for the inside of our van. Later in the week we colored eggs and had a ball seeing who could get theirs the darkest shade. Each day during the week we tried to talk about the Savior's week before the resurrection. It really made Sunday more meaningful, not to mention helping our week to be better too. The Saturday before Easter some ward friends were getting together to do an egg hunt for the kids. With the 5+ inches of snow we got the night before, it turned into a sledding/egg hunt outing. It was actually really fun because the snow made it easy to hide the eggs (you could just throw them on the ground and they would vanish) and it made it pleasingly difficult for even the big kids to find the eggs. The Easter Bunny has been so kind to agree to come to our house on Saturday before Easter Sunday. This has worked wonderfully for our family, allowing us to focus on candy and stuff on Saturday, and the Savior on Sunday. The Easter Bunny had a junior Bunny helper this year which I read on his blog was a super cool new thing for him and the junior Bunny (I am trying to be vague, but if you are thoroughly confused, please let me know!) The hunt for the candy was a riot this year with Lucy being the star of the show. She was a little shocked by all the candy around and that we were letting her eat whatever she wanted. She had her little fists full of candy, and the eggs that were not wrapped would immediately go into her mouth. I think she was afraid we would all of a sudden tell her she couldn't eat any more so she was going for as much as she could as quickly as she could. That day she learned to say "candy" and her new favorite word was "open". It was pretty funny.

Sunday was a delight with no bishopric meeting in the morning (thank you kind Bishop!) so Byron was able to help get everyone ready and we all drove to church together. What an Easter treat for me! We had a yummy ham dinner with some friends, the Mitchells, and our next door neighbor, Flo. I was so glad we had been talking about the life of Christ throughout the week, because I had multiple "friends of other faiths" ask me if we celebrated Easter. I was able to tell them a little about our focus on the Savior and how grateful I am for the resurrection. And of course, back to real priorities, I had to get some shots of Lucy in her cute hand-me-down Easter dress (thanks, Emily!) and her snow queen coat direct from Gma and Gpa Garn in Hong Kong. I thought it was too funny with her out there in her spring dress checking out the snow. She did not want to come inside even though it was freezing. Good times, good times!