Easter coincided with April Fool’s Day, General Conference and Spring Break and Troy’s parents and sister’s family joined us for the occasion. One of these years I need to switch up my Easter tablescape, but fresh flowers added to the pink eggs and napkins I stash away gets the job…
One of the things we were looking forward to in our new neighborhood was the annual Easter egg hunt. We gathered for a full Easter feast and each family contributed candy filled eggs for the kids to find. Our street only has 10 houses and we sure aren’t lacking for…
Easter aligned with General Conference this year and since I knew we’d be lounging in sweat pants listening to our leaders on TV, I had the boys dress up the Sunday before Easter in their new shirts. They even obliged me with a few shots after church. The key was…
We started Easter Sunday with church and the children’s choir that I lead sang a beautiful version of The Miracle. Of course everyone’s favorite part of the day was the post-church photo op. I kid. But we were feeling the love between the painful posed shots. My family came in…
In an effort to catch up, which seems almost impossible now that the gap between real life and the documentation of life has grown exponentially, I’m going to jump way back to where I left off in April. Yes, April. Before we hit the road to come home after spring…
I was in a very pink and gingham mood this Easter. In a house with five boys, I’m always looking for an excuse to incorporate the color pink.
I woke up on Easter morning with laryngitis and absolutely no voice. It’s a good thing I could lip sync while conducting the children’s choir at church because the only sound I could produce was a whisper. The children sang a beautiful song called “Gethsemane” and the boys were so happy…
Now that we’ve lived in California a little over a year, some outings that were new to us last spring are being repeated. The second the spring festival advertisements popped up around town, the boys couldn’t stop talking about finding the golden egg at the egg hunt. Finn made his…
We kept Easter weekend really simple this year. We headed to the beach on Saturday when the boys got too restless to listen to any more General Conference (our church’s televised broadcast that falls the first weekends of April and October). In typical fashion, the boys made some new friends…
We kicked off the week of Easter by spending a day at our city’s spring festival. It seemed like the whole town was out to collect eggs. The egg hunts were divided by age. Thank goodness for Troy who distracted Crew while he peered through the fence and watched his…
