Easter

Happy Easter! I am so thankful for the resurrection we celebrate today, especially this year with my Gramps passing. Easter was Gramps' holiday. He and Gram hosted our annual Easter egg hunt every year at their house. Gram would fill the eggs and gramps would hide them. And hide he would, none of this sissy throw the eggs in the grass stuff. Each year there was a Gold and a Silver egg and everybody wanted those because they held the big bucks along with the more important bragging rights. There was no age limit- you joined the hunt once you could walk and you quit hunting when.....well none of us got to that point. There was not a limit to the eggs you could find - some years some people found four, other years they found 20. But gramps was good about noticing those who were short on eggs and he might start walking next to them, asking why they hadn't found many and then accidentally kick over a dirt clod that just happened to have an egg hiding underneath it. There was no such thing as being a "grown-up" when it came to this hunt. As adults, we still pick through the sagebrush hurrying to see the eggs before our kids do and some of us have been known to throw a friendly elbow or two as we try to snatch up an egg at the same time as one of our cousins. Every year there are eggs that aren't found and every year someone would suggest making a map, sometimes even Gramps. But that never happened because that kind of takes the fun out of it Yep, Easter Sundays are some of the best memories I have from my childhood and of Gramps. And somehow, even though it was all about the hunt, I never felt like it took us away or made us forget the real reason why we celebrate Easter because Gramps had a testimony of that and he lived it. The reason he and Gram went to all this trouble every year had nothing to do with us having one more piece of candy and everything to do with creating memories and bringing us together as a family to love and appreciate one another. And in the end the Easter story really is about love isn't it?

Happy Easter! We miss you Gramps.

Don't forget the pets

Tonight when were reading scriptures before bed we were talking about Lehi's family and what 3 things we'd each take if we had to move to the wilderness. We said things like dishes and tents were family things so we were supposed to list 3 things we'd personally take.

Ava- Clothes, blanket, pillow pet (Ava first said pillow, blanket and favorite stuffed animal. We reminded her she might need clothes and she didn't know what to do until she realized if she took a pillow pet she'd have a pillow and stuffed animal)

Dad -Clothes, blanket (he only had two things b/c mom told him he couldn't take his phone or his golf clubs)

Mom -Scriptures, clothes, toilet paper

Charlotte - lizards!

Easter mail

Robs mom is always so good about sending the girls cards for the holidays. The girls love getting mail so they think its great. This year even Genevieve got an Easter card.

Party time

We went to a neighbor friends' birthday party yesterday. It was a rock and roll theme and the girls had a blast. There was a piñata and glitter tatoos. They both chose unicorn tatoos. Charlie sat patiently and got hers put on and the minute she was done she told me "I don't yike it, I want it all off." Too funny, she's the same way with nail polish.

The party was fun, we have such a good time with our neighborhood friends and are so grateful this neighborhood has been so welcoming the past couple years.

Number Two

Today I picked up Charlotte from preschool. On the way home she said to me Miss Tammy said be quiet. I said what did you say to her? Did you say yes ma'am? Charlotte says no I just laughed.