Easter Time!

Easter was good.  It was a week ago which is a bit too long ago for this brain of mine to remember very clearly.  Lets see…on Thursday, my good friend came over and we had a blast making Easter treats.  We made chocolate dipped peanut butter eggs, rice crispy treats, and pansy cookies.  Boy, was it fun!  She brought her kids and they played in the living room next to us while we worked.  They are such fun kids and are so cute together!  By the time we were done, we had tons of treats for our families for Easter.  We even had enough to give some away.

This year I planned to do “A Week of Easter” with my family highlighting events in the last week of Christ’s life.  It got off to a great start, with good discussions on Mary anointing Jesus’ feet, His triumphal entry, His time in the temple, and the Last Supper, but Friday we didn’t do what I had planned because of everything else going on that day.  For one thing, Thomas went camping.  Before he went, though, we did color Easter Eggs and make our traditional bread bunnies which was very fun.  Jonathan came home for the weekend, but not in time to color eggs with us.  He left to hang out with friends for the evening.  Those of us who were left, went to an Easter choir concert that the girl’s participated in as part of the children’s choir.  So we did celebrate Easter on Friday, just not in the way I planned.

On Saturday Thomas returned from camping said he had a fun time.  He got to do some climbing which is great for a kid with unlimited energy.  That Saturday was also prom for Miriam.  She wore an orange dress that was absolutely gorgeous.  Her date had an orange vest and tie and red hair, so they matched very well.  Her date’s mom came over to do her hair which was very nice of her.  Miriam looked beautiful.   Matt also had a date that evening.  They just watched a movie here at the house with Katrina and Thomas and ate pizza.   Anyway, with Jonny gone most of the day and Miriam gone to prom and everything, we did no Easter celebrating that day.  L

Sunday we ate bread bunnies and Easter eggs for breakfast before church.  At church we got to listen to an Easter program about Jesus Christ with beautiful music sung by the choir.  I could feel the Holy Ghost and I felt very close to the Savior.  After church, the we had the kids hunt for their Easter baskets and then we sat around the table eating Easter goodies and laughing and talking.  I realized later that we never did eat lunch—just Easter candy.  Pretty crazy, huh?  The boys, who got balsa wood airplanes and gliders in their baskets spent most of the day outside together flying them.  Not very Sunday-ish, I know.  That evening we combined the discussions we had planned for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday into a beautiful Easter lesson about Jesus Christ’s atonement.  It was nice to all be gathered around learning about the Savior.  I felt very close to Jesus Christ this Easter time, and I love him very much.  He is the literal Son of God and my loving Elder Brother, my Savior and Redeemer.

Later we drove Jon back to college which was a very fun way to visit as a family.  On the way home we saw a pasture of sheep and every ewe had at least one baby lamb.  We stopped and watched the lambs play for awhile.  It was so cute!  By the time we got home I was starving.  That’s when I realized I hadn’t eaten anything but candy for lunch.  Yuck.  Well, my sweet Brian came to the rescue and made a delicious meal of spam (yes, folks, spam.) and eggs and hash browns.  It was very yummy.  At this point you may be wondering if we ever eat anything healthy at our house.  The answer is yes.  Every meal we ever eat besides those I detail in my journal is perfectly balanced and chock full of vitamins.  I only write about the unhealthy ones.  Okay, I am kidding, but we do eat fairly healthy foods most of the time.  Really.