{Easter Weekend Fun}

Did all of you have a good Easter weekend? I hope so, because I know we did! It was spring break for the kids and Mr. Hubby, they've been out of school since Wednesday, and I think it's going to be hard to get up for school in the morning for all of us. Our little town always holds an Easter Egg hunt which the Primary is in charge of, but our poor little primary took a hit when we lost half our teachers to the new Relief Society Presidency and the Easter Egg hunt kind-of got left till the last minute. Lisa and I picked up the candy and eggs last week and we managed to pull it off. I truly enjoyed visiting with Tanya and Lynda as we stuffed the eggs. I feel blessed to be able to work with such great women in Primary.

This was my family room floor on Tuesday night....500 eggs and lots of candy. The kids, ok Carlie, couldn't understand why she couldn't eat all the candy.Unfortunately Wednesday afternoon was cold and windy and we were almost frozen after throwing out the candy and eggs, but the kids were happy and I think it turned out pretty well! Actually, I'm really just glad it's over with, I stress too much!
I think Kaleb got plenty of candy....don't you?

And a few eggs too! On Thursday afternoon, our GREAT neighbors, the Mundy's called and invited my kids to another egg hunt at their house with their granddaughter. Derrick and I were going on a hot date, so Aunt Lis took them along with her kids. We are lucky to have such fun neighbors who are always inviting us to things like that.

We decided this year to ask the Easter Bunny to come on Saturday. It just seemed like it would work better with Church and hopefully help us remember what Easter is really about.

Brock and Carlie were pretty excited with their new sunglasses. Brock even snuck his to church and put them on during Primary with his suit.....he looked very "Men in Black" until his mean Mama took them away! They also got books, flip flops, some more candy, swimsuits, and a few barbies for our girlie girl.

After Easter basket fun, we went to another egg hunt in Fillmore, which was also cold. From there we went to Dearden Equipment and had lunch. Later in the day it was time for the annual hunt at Gram and Papa's. As soon as we all got there, it started to rain, and it rained hard! We ate, and waited. Gram played Bingo with the kids, and we waited. Finally it stopped long enough to go and find the eggs. There was a $10 money egg for the girls in the side yard and one for the boys in the front yard, but somehow Carlie ended up with both of them, LUCKY GIRL! To be fair we did let the boys draw to see who got the money that was meant for them.

The boys were pretty serious this year and were racing all over the yard.

Papa even got tricky and hid some up in the tree!

We did get some new chicks this year again. Five of them, that will be white when they get bigger. Carlie has been loving them and is constantly asking to go see the "kickens".

Easter Sunday turned out to be a nice day and we hurried and snapped a picture before we ran out the door to Church. Grandma Jeannie made Carlie a new dress this year which looked cute on her. And the boys looked pretty spiffy in their birthday suits, ummm, I mean the suits they got for their birthdays, they would have felt pretty silly at church in their birthday suits!

Sunday afternoon, I had the wonderful experience of attending a special devotional held the in Priesthood room at the Manti Temple for our Stake. Last year our Stake Presidency placed an emphasis on family history and temple work and set a goal to double the size of our stake through Temple work, which was about 3,500 names. We not only made that goal, but far exceeded it, by almost double at, I think, just over 6,000 names. Because of the great effort made by our Stake, the First Presidency granted permission for this special devotional to be held on Easter Sunday in such a beautiful and amazing room, a first as far as the Temple Presidency knows. I can't even begin tell you what an extraordinary experience it was, and it truly made made my Easter Sunday complete.