Easter

I feel like I should write something about Easter, even if I don't have the greatest pictures to accompany it (my memory card was full for Saturday's events and I still need to dump pictures from the rest of the weekend onto my computer!) On Saturday we went to Idaho and had a fun time visiting with many of my family. We went tubing, as I mentioned in an earlier post, had an egg hunt with the cousins, colored Easter eggs, and had a tour of John's greenhouse. Below is a picture of everyone counting their eggs and counting the money inside the eggs from the egg hunt. This hunt is always fun because there's lots of cousins -- big and small -- and lots of eggs to find. This year, some of the eggs were even hidden in the snow! We had five dozen hard boiled eggs to color. I think everyone took a turn at coloring at least a couple of eggs, even though the majority were colored by the cousins! It's always fun to experiment with crayons, rubber bands, and colors.
My mom made a wonderful Easter dinner for us -- we always love the ham and "holiday" potatoes -- my mom makes the best because its all from scratch (the potatoes), no frozen stuff! John & Karen also took us on a tour of the greenhouses -- it is definitely spring in there with all the thousands of plants and hanging baskets they've got growing. Karen's new florist shop digs are coming along great as well.

On Sunday the kids woke up to Easter baskets (or buckets) filled with a few treats -- gummy lifesavers and chocolate of course. Jacob and Matthew got new sand box shovels and Jared & Ryan each got a new pack of basketball cards. Sunday meetings were really good and I even made it through my RS lesson -- thanks to much prayer and participation from the sisters, we had a good spiritual meeting discussing Pres. Packer's talk from the last conference.

Monday evening we continued our Easter festivities with hamburgers cooked on the grill at Vawdrey's house and an egg hunt with Ethan & Rachel. We missed having Sarah be a part of the party -- especially since she loves egg hunting so much!