Easter Events

Well, this year we included in our Easter celebration all of the necessities: coloring hard-boiled eggs, Easter egg hunting, baskets from the Easter bunny and eating TOO MUCH candy!

We colored eggs at home, per tradition and to our surprise we got to color eggs a second time at Grandma and Grandpa's house during what we thought would only be an egg hunt!

Grandma and Grandpa hosted a "2nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt" and Creighton eagerly anticipated the event! The kids' cousin Renner was there also.

On the way home from the Easter egg hunt Creighton exclaimed, "That was the best Easter egg hunt ever!!"
I am so glad the bunny took it easy on us this year- a few simple toys and not an overwhelming amount of candy. 

Capturing pictures of kids rifling through their loot sure is difficult! Why don't they just want to stand still and show me what they got?

Of course- what a blessed Easter weekend as we also got to listen to General Conference and remember more of our Savior Jesus Christ and his love for us and our Heavenly Father's plan. Some personal prayers of mine were answered and peace brought into my life. 

Happy Easter!!

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Oh, How I Love This Blog!

I started this blog over 5 years ago and much to my surprise I am still going!

It is just about the only kind of social media that I am on, besides Pinterest. At the beginning of March after much coaxing from several people I FINALLY "jumped on the bandwagon" and signed up for a Facebook account. I posted a few pictures of my family and the children. After a month of Facebook I have decided I don't like it very much. It is great for the purposes of checking in with friends and family- boy a lot has changed with a lot of people and I am in contact with some I haven't thought of for years! However, for the purposes of sharing my own personal family events- I prefer this blog.

In fact, I have learned to really love that I have documented so many experiences. I attempted to use a few different websites to create a book out of my blog posts but my blog was too large to upload! So I went through and deleted numerous posts that were not family oriented (those things about couponing/recipes/crafting etc.) Still not able to upload the posts into a blog book that I liked, I am coming up with other ways to transfer this information so that it will not be lost and so that a hard copy can be retained.

So to those who still read our family blog- I will continue to post tidbits from our life. This blog is not fancy but I sure do love it!