Easter

This year, Easter fell on General Conference weekend, which is always my favorite time for Easter.  It is a good reminder of what Easter is all about to sit and listen to the prophet and apostles bear witness of the divinity of the Savior.  ‘

With General Conference (including the Priesthood session) taking place most of the day Saturday, we decided to dye our eggs Friday night.  One egg kit I found was called volcano eggs.  You had to leave the eggs hot after boiling them, and then there were crayon shavings you could put on the eggs that would melt in different colors.  The boys really liked trying that out.  Once the eggs cooled, we dyed some more, and even dyed some of the volcano ones too.

             

Saturday afternoon, we had our Easter egg hunt in the backyard.  It was a little wet the few days before, but luckily the afternoon was sunny and nice. 

             

Kelly came over for the Easter egg hunt, and after the boys opened up their eggs, Kelly gave them each an Easter basket of goodies from him and from Grandma and Grandpa Malan.  They were especially excited about their Lego Easter set, and Kelly spent awhile helping James put his together while Shane headed to the Priesthood session.

 

Easter morning, the boys found the eggs hidden in the front room that the bunny had hid, and they had fun looking through their Easter baskets.  Landon and Davis liked their new Nike socks, and James was especially excited about his Ninja Turtles t-shirt.  He wore it for the next four days straight.  The bubbles were also a big hit, and Asher especially liked his bubble gun.

         

The boys also opened their goodie bags from Grandma and Grandpa Morris.  They were excited about their new t-shirts, and they all put them on to be matching (although James put his on under his Ninja Turtle shirt).  Asher was excited about the egg with little eraser motorcycles inside.

 

After enjoying some more amazing sessions of General Conference, we had Kelly over for a delicious Easter dinner of ham, potatoes, rolls, deviled eggs, Shane’s layered Jell-o, and a carrot cake cheesecake for dessert. 

 

Happy Easter!

March Happenings

Here’s what else happened in March:

On a sunny day off from school, we had a picnic lunch and played at Snyder park.

   

Davis and his buddy Luke at school lunch, and ice cream after Asher’s RSV shot.

 

Library story time for Asher (wearing the yellow tackle shirt with brown sleeves), and Ty, Asher, and James watching a pill bug crawl through the hexbug track.

 

A sunny day for some shadow puppets – Asher tried to make some too, but then decide going upside down was more fun.

   

James’s preschool class had a field trip to the fire station (wearing the yellow shirt on the front left), and lots of swinging and jumping on the trampoline.

   

A yummy St. Patrick’s Day pistachio cake!  James was especially excited about Saint Patrick’s Day this year since his preschool teacher had a leprechaun come and leave treats at his school.  He kept talking about wanting to catch a leprechaun, and he just couldn’t figure out who could catch one.  Finally, he had an epiphany and exclaimed, “I know who can catch a leprechaun!  Jesus can!” 

We love when baby Dallin comes to visit, and we celebrated Kelly’s birthday just before Asher’s.

 

James and Asher like to lie around with their blankets and dogs after the big boys leave for school, and Davis lost his first top tooth.

 

When we got back from spring break, we went on a hike at Tyron Creek Park.  There were some beautiful trails, and it was fun to get outside.  We had to stop at St. Honore Boulangerie for croissant aux amandes and pain au chocolat on our way back when we drove right by it.