The Easter Bunny left a few things for the boys and I thought it was fitting that they were left in one of their favorite places; a well used box! We have had this lawnmower box in our house for at least a week and it has gotten much use. They hide in it, they eat in it, they watch TV in it, they play with their Legos in it and the list goes on.
Yesterday and today was General Conference and so we have been spending a lot of time in doors watching it on TV. A funny thing happened this morning. Conference isn't short and for a child I'm sure it seems like an eternity to end. Conference is similar to our Sacrament meetings in that it begins with a song then a prayer. A few speakers talk to us and then another song is sung. After that we have more speakers, another song and then the closing prayer. So yesterday we watched this at 11:00-1:00 and then another session at 3:00-5:00. By this morning I knew that Levi was used to the routine when at 11:00 this morning after the song I told the boys to be quite and fold their arms (for the prayer). Levi gets all excited and says, "Is it the end?!" It had just started and he was hopeful, I guess, that this prayer was the closing prayer!
Here are the kids enjoying the neighbor dog.....poor kids. Only Logan gets to enjoy a dog; April and I are not dog people. They will be stuck with cats and fish for the rest of their lives in our houses! Soon we were called inside to have yummy lunch. We all bring something but Grandma and Grandpa always end up providing most of it....thank you!
Soon after we were heading outside to hunt for Easter Eggs. I found this one with a Mosquito Eater on it. I really can't stand bugs but I actually thought this was kind of pretty. And can I tell you one thing that I really like about blogging? It makes me educate myself so I'll know what I'm talking about on here! Or sometimes it just makes me wonder if what I grew up knowing was actually correct so I start looking things up. April had to remind me that they were called Mosquito Eaters but wasn't really sure if they actually did what their name indicates. I looked it up and their real names are Crane Flies and they don't eat mosquitoes at all.
After getting all their "goods" at home, hunting for Easter Eggs this afternoon and then getting even more stuff from the Easter Bunny who left stuff for all the great grand kids at Grandma and Grandpa's house....our kids are on sugar high cloud 9!
Yesterday after our second round of conference I realized that I hadn't taught them anything about the real meaning of Easter this year. I'm usually much better about that. I really don't like how commercialised our holidays get so we focus our Family Home Evening before the actual holiday on the real meaning of it and then remind them about it on the actual holiday. That didn't happen this time so I'm going to try to make up for it tomorrow at FHE. Until then, I can only try to express to my Father in Heaven just how grateful I am that He let His son do what He did. After a year like last year, I can't imagine going on in a life so uncomfortable. So miserable without knowing that there actually was a man on this Earth who has felt those same terrible things and that He did the only thing possible to make it so that someone so imperfect as I could still live with my Father in Heaven again. Life is anything but simple most of the time but given the alternative without Him, I can finally say that I would do last year a thousand times over to feel peace. There is only one way that comes.
Yesterday and today was General Conference and so we have been spending a lot of time in doors watching it on TV. A funny thing happened this morning. Conference isn't short and for a child I'm sure it seems like an eternity to end. Conference is similar to our Sacrament meetings in that it begins with a song then a prayer. A few speakers talk to us and then another song is sung. After that we have more speakers, another song and then the closing prayer. So yesterday we watched this at 11:00-1:00 and then another session at 3:00-5:00. By this morning I knew that Levi was used to the routine when at 11:00 this morning after the song I told the boys to be quite and fold their arms (for the prayer). Levi gets all excited and says, "Is it the end?!" It had just started and he was hopeful, I guess, that this prayer was the closing prayer!
Here are the kids enjoying the neighbor dog.....poor kids. Only Logan gets to enjoy a dog; April and I are not dog people. They will be stuck with cats and fish for the rest of their lives in our houses! Soon we were called inside to have yummy lunch. We all bring something but Grandma and Grandpa always end up providing most of it....thank you!Soon after we were heading outside to hunt for Easter Eggs. I found this one with a Mosquito Eater on it. I really can't stand bugs but I actually thought this was kind of pretty. And can I tell you one thing that I really like about blogging? It makes me educate myself so I'll know what I'm talking about on here! Or sometimes it just makes me wonder if what I grew up knowing was actually correct so I start looking things up. April had to remind me that they were called Mosquito Eaters but wasn't really sure if they actually did what their name indicates. I looked it up and their real names are Crane Flies and they don't eat mosquitoes at all.
After getting all their "goods" at home, hunting for Easter Eggs this afternoon and then getting even more stuff from the Easter Bunny who left stuff for all the great grand kids at Grandma and Grandpa's house....our kids are on sugar high cloud 9!
Yesterday after our second round of conference I realized that I hadn't taught them anything about the real meaning of Easter this year. I'm usually much better about that. I really don't like how commercialised our holidays get so we focus our Family Home Evening before the actual holiday on the real meaning of it and then remind them about it on the actual holiday. That didn't happen this time so I'm going to try to make up for it tomorrow at FHE. Until then, I can only try to express to my Father in Heaven just how grateful I am that He let His son do what He did. After a year like last year, I can't imagine going on in a life so uncomfortable. So miserable without knowing that there actually was a man on this Earth who has felt those same terrible things and that He did the only thing possible to make it so that someone so imperfect as I could still live with my Father in Heaven again. Life is anything but simple most of the time but given the alternative without Him, I can finally say that I would do last year a thousand times over to feel peace. There is only one way that comes.
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