Happy Easter!

This was kind of a weird Easter for me this year. I enjoyed putting the kids baskets together and loved seeing them get excited over seeing them this morning. I even stayed up late making a breakfast casserole that my Mom always made for us thinking it would be a cool Easter morning tradition and it's really yummy too.......only my kids wouldn't touch it. Then we rushed off to church. I love going to church , especially on special holidays like today but for some reason I had a great desire to attend some kind of special Easter mass or something in a big cathedral, with all the tradition and ceremony. It was a bit of a let down to sit in our very plain chapel. No statues of Christ or any Saints, no paintings or ornate decorations or stain glass or anything. I was wishing I was back in Spain in one of the very old cathedrals I've toured watching the priests in their robes waving the incense or whatever those smoking bowl thingies are that they wave around and just being in the grandness of it all. I wanted to be immersed in the spirit of Christ and really feel overwhelmed by his amazing Atonement and Resurrection. I wanted something bigger today for some reason. It wasn't until I was sitting in primary and the children sang "tell me the stories of Jesus" that it hit me. I felt an overwhelming love for my Savior and felt so touched by the sweet voices singing this simple song. As the tears welled up in my eyes I felt so grateful for the simpleness that can bring forth the greatness of the Spirit. Then my friend sitting next to me said something that made me laugh and it was over. But I felt it! And it was great!

I do wish we had some of the beautiful paintings of Christ that hang in the hallways and foyer in our Chapel. Why is that? Can anyone enlighten me as to why the chapel is so bare?


When we got home from Church and after we put the boys down for their nap, Brooklyn got to have her own personal little Easter egg hunt. Pete hid the eggs all around the living room area and Brooklyn got to go find them. Only once wasn't enough for her. When she found them all she informed her Dad that that was too easy and she wanted to do it again. So Pete put all the plastic eggs back together (she had opened them all to dump out the candy) and hid them all again. They repeated this game about 4 times until she decided she wanted to hide the eggs and have Dad find them. It was at this point I think I snuck upstairs to go take a nap! After the boys woke up, we got ready and headed off to Eagle Crest Resort to join my cousin Susan and her family for Easter dinner. It was fantastic! They had made an amazing prime rib dinner and we had so much fun hanging out with them. I loved watching Jessica (9yrs old) beat the guys at Monopoly! I don't know if Pete's ego will get over that or not! Thanks for making our Easter so great! We love you guys!