Easter Weekend

Easter festivities began the Friday before when my sister Ruth and her family came into town from California. We had a big ham dinner hosted by my mom, and we had 6 little boys running around doing what they do best. Aunt Abby and Uncle Casey were the unofficial boy entertainers, leaving each and every one of them wired and sweaty.

Saturday morning was the neighborhood Easter egg hunt and breakfast. They instructed the kids to only find 10 eggs, and of course Cruise came back with 25 and Jett with 15. So we had to throw more than a few back. But the kids had a lot of fun and they loved eating donuts and muffins for breakfast. 

Easter morning the kids woke to find the Easter Bunny had filled their baskets. Cruise and Jett both got Legos, a kite, a CTR poster, mini Lindt bunnies, a sunflower growing kit, sidewalk chalk, a tie, and filled easter eggs. Miles got a touch-and-feel book, a ball, a rubber ducky, pacifiers, and a tie.

After a breakfast of eggs and ham, muffins and orange juice, we got the gang all ready for church. Dave and Miles were still recovering from pneumonia and Jett was starting to get a cough, so we ended up just staying for Sacrament meeting. When we got home, we did a special Easter egg hunt where we had 12 eggs filled with things about the atonement and resurrection. We had a little lesson/FHE about Easter and why we celebrate it. The boys, to my surprise, paid attention the whole time and answered questions without jumping all over the furniture. 

That evening, I made a dinner of leg of lamb, garlic mashed potatoes, gravy, glazed carrots, rolls, and sparkling cider. It all turned out delicious.

It seems like every Easter at least one of us is horribly sick. But I am grateful that we could go to Sacrament this year and hear about the Savior and His love for us. I am so grateful that we have the atonement in our lives and that we can be a family for all eternity. He is Risen! And I am ever so thankful.