Happy Easter!

 Holidays get more and more fun the older our children get.  Dying Easter eggs this year involved the whole family and everyone had a great time!  Amelia dominated the pink, as she does with all of our pink plates, cups, and bowls as well.  She loved putting her eggs in over and over again.

 Andrew is a creative kid and had so much fun coloring eggs.  After all of his hard work his most beautiful egg rolled off the able and cracked, he was devastated!

 Here they are all lined up and ready for the big hunt!

 Andrew was a good sport and was kind enough to redistribute six of his eggs with his little sister.  He's just so fast at snatching up the eggs!

 I realize these pictures all look pretty much the same, but it was such a fun moment that I wanted to capture every bit of it.  The kids all piled on the couch to check out their eggs and Mike and I pulled the ottoman up in front of them and we watched their excitement, they shared candy, and we talked about Easter.

 Amelia has a neighbor friend who has a few pairs of sunglasses and will often share a pair with her.  She was so excited to finally get some glasses of her own!  Tanner and Reid got new sun glasses as well.  Andrew got an awesome water bottle with a spiderweb on it, he was so happy!

 We had our good friends, the Petreys, over for Easter dinner.  Thank you Stacey for sending these pics, I always forget to capture the tables.

 The boys taught the adults about the last week of Christ's life.  They did a great job and were so respectful and reverent with their pictures.  It was a lovely evening with friends, celebrating Easter, and eating yummy food.  I rarely make Mom C.'s dinner rolls and my family loves them!  The boys (including Mike) were so excited to have lots of rolls with our Easter dinner.

I hope you all had a great Easter as well.  I love taking the week before Easter to really talk about the last week of Christ's life and his Atonement, death, and then His resurrection.  As our kids get older, they understand more and ask thoughtful questions.  It's fun to see them get it.  Andrew wrote a talk for primary that he gave on Easter Sunday.  He wrote it by himself and his first line was, "Easter isn't just a day of candy, it's really a day about Jesus."  Andrew gave a great talk about how Christ made good choices, most importantly, to follow Heavenly Father's plan.  Andrew talked about how he can make good choices too and shared how he had given six of his Easter eggs to his sister.  I loved hearing his talk!

Our church recently made a series of videos about Christ's life.  Our family has really enjoyed watching the videos, check them out here, they're definitely worth your time.  Happy Easter