Easter Recap

I put my pictures in out of order so I'll do my best to tell our Easter week story the best I can...

The Last Easter egg hunt we went to actually ended up being our favorite hunt. It was at Best Buy. Elizabeth had seen a flyer at work about it so we decided to check it out. It was AWESOME!!! They had around 4000 eggs hidden throughout the entire store. When I say throughout I mean it!! They had eggs hidden in washing machines, refrigerators, computers, printers, videos, furniture, TV's, EVERYWHERE!! It was so much fun!! When we started the day Trent didn't know if he wanted to join us due to his age. He's at that wonderful age of nearly 12 and wanting to still do some things and then not wanting to do them. He was really glad he went!! They got so many eggs at Best Buy! At one point we stopped to look through the eggs to look to see if we had one of the "golden eggs". They hadn't found any. Well, I turned and right in front of me hidden behind some earphones was one of the golden marbled eggs!! We were so excited!! We actually won the movie "The Princess and the Frog". They had great prizes! We definitely left there feeling like winners!

Both of their baskets were full of candy! Notice the bags of eggs! They were handing out the bags to all the kids because there was so many eggs! I think there was only 50 - 60 kids for 4000 eggs. At one point they called all the kids back to the front of the store so they could put out more eggs! When they said GO the kids took off again! It was hilarious because some of the employees weren't finished putting the eggs out. When they saw the kids running towards them they quickly tossed their boxes of eggs out on the floor and ran to escape! They were laughing at how quick the kids were. We will be planning on going to this again next year!
We rose early Saturday morning to hit the HEB egg hunt first. Eyn works here so we had to go to it. They have some green grass on the side of the building that they had divided out by age groups. Trent was happy that he still qualified for one of the groups. They didn't get any of the "prize" eggs, but they came away with a lot of loot!

Amberly waiting for the hunt to start
Searching for the special eggs.

Amberly enjoying a moment with the Easter Bunny

The Tuesday night before Easter we were able to all go to the Ward Picnic/Easter Egg Hunt. We enjoyed being outside on such a gorgeous evening and being able to visit with wonderful friends! The egg hunt was quick and Amberly had fun doing it. The boys enjoyed the evening playing football, Frisbee, and hanging out with friends. If our youth night falls on the 5th Tuesday of the month our ward has the tradition of the Ward Picnic on that night. Its always been well attended and a lot of fun.

We had to dye Easter eggs. I guess this is an Easter Tradition we just can't forget!

Trent's masterpieceSilly Elizabeth!

Easter weekend was wonderful! It was different having General Conference on Easter. It was strange not going to church on that day, but it was wonderful listening to our Prophet and other General Authorities. The messages were truly inspiring and were amazing! We enjoyed a wonderful dinner after the last session on Sunday. I "think" everyone was pleased with their Easter baskets. The Easter bunny seemed to be in a very giving mood this year and was nice to everyone. Of course I forgot to take pictures of them.

I'm so grateful we were able to celebrate Easter together as a family. It was a wonderful weekend!

Easter

I love Easter! I love everything about Easter!

Each year we try hard to talk about the real meaning of Easter with our children quite a bit. I want them to know their Saviour and understand all He did for each of us. It's hard because the "world" commercializes Easter just like they do Christmas and it seems like all they are excited about is the fact that the Easter Bunny is coming to our house! I do love having the Easter bunny visit each year, I just hope they understand why we have Easter.

This is Amberly organizing the contents of her basket. We found the cutest dress for her! She looked adorable in it! Here's Trent also organizing his basket treasures. I don't know why the Easter Bunny seems to overdue it on the candy each year!

Elizabeth and Eyn seemed to be avoiding the camera!

The night before Easter Darin and I attended a Semi-formal birthday party for someone he works with. We had a great time there. It was hard to be gone that evening because I usually like to spend time as a family discussing what was happening during Christ's time then. I can't imagine the sadness the disciples and his friends must have been feeling due to Christs' death. The joy they must have felt on that wonderful day when that discovered that he no longer remained in the tomb but had risen! What joy must had filled their hearts! What joy fills mine as I think of His Great Love for ME and that I too along with my family will be resurrected and live together again as a family forever. What joy fills my heart as I think of my loved ones who have passed on already. I miss them terribly, but I know that I will again be with them someday and that they continue to live and progress where they are. How grateful I am for a loving Heavenly Father and for his son Jesus Christ! I know they Live! What a glorious blessing it is to know these things!