Easter

Easter was full of events this year. To begin the "week" of events, we started with Troy and Sonja's (Scott's brother and sister in law) temple sealing followed by an early Easter dinner. While participating in dinner, they had thrown together a huge easter egg event for the kids. Paige and Ashley had tons of fun and really got into it, especially having fun with cousins.






Next on the list of events was the easter egg dyeing. Paige didn't quite understand the difference between dyeing and dying. We had a lot of fun picking colors for our eggs. Paige wrote our names down on different eggs and Ashley just wanted to drop the eggs in the glasses. After the egg dyeing, we had a family home evening on the true meaning of Easter. When we asked Paige what Easter was about, she answered with the usual bunny, candy etc. We then gave the lesson on the crucifixion and resurrection. Paige really soaked up true purpose and it was later instilled in her brain when she gave a short talk about it in primary. We are so proud of our Paige and her ability to understand the simplicities of the gospel.




Next came Easter morning. Can I just say that the easter bunny is still trying to get into the swing of things at our house and wasn't as prepared on the candy front or the hiding of the eggs until the last minute. It didn't matter, Paige and Ashley still had a great time finding the eggs and then they wanted to hide them all over again. They didn't hardly eat any of the candy and we ended up taking it to Scott's work anyways. Then we put on their beautiful Easter dresses and did up their hair with Paige actually letting me straighten hers. Pictures are always interesting because they never look at the camera at the same time! Next, off to church to celebrate the true meaning of Easter.


After church, we went up to Logan for a yummy meal where once again, the kids had another easter egg hunt. You can never have too many of those. How grateful I am for the sacrifice Jesus gave of when he died for me and the beautiful gift of the resurrection that alows each of us to return to live with him and our families again.