Happy Easter

We had a lot of fun this Easter season. The kids hd spring break the week before Easter so we did some Easter crafts, went shopping, had a picnic at the park with Josh and just really enjoyed sleeping in every morning and being together. Here are the kids dying their Easter eggs.
They made beautiful eggs that we put all around the house. Hopefully we will find those eggs before they rot and get stinky!!!! haha

The kids helped with the Easter dinner (that we had early on Friday because my mom and dad were here then) by helping with the Easter cake. They asked if we could make one like the one Grandma makes...white cake, white frosting, green grass (coconut) and jelly beans. After burning our first batch of "grass" in the toaster oven, everything came out great!!!

Yummy cake!!!

The kids enjoyed a nice time at the church's Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. They got to help plant flowers outside the building. Now they have had practice, they can come do my yard!!!

The primary also set up an Easter photo booth for the kids. They got to choose Easter hats and headbands. They were all really cute!!!! Here is Blake sporting the Easter Bunny look.

Jamie and Gabbie planting flowers....

This was Blake's first Easter Egg Hunt that he participated in and he really had fun!!! In fact when it was over, he kept running to find more eggs. He didn't even know they had little treats inside them! What a bonus!!! The older kids ran WAY TOO FAST to get a good picture of them hunting eggs. Oh well...maybe next year!!!

Our Family on Easter Sunday....

I hope you enjoyed your Easter and had time to ponder on what it truly means. We are so blessed to have a Savior that loves us!! He died for us and was Resurrected! He lives today and loves each of us. Josh and I were able to give talks at church today. There were so many people there...it was a little scary but truthfully I was happy to share my testimony of a Savior that has done so much for us!!!

You can visit lds.org and see a beautiful Easter message by one of our living apostles - Jeffrey R. Holland. He shared this message last week at General Conference. His message is combined with wonderful footage from church movies and pictures of Christ. Hope you enjoy it!