A Day In The Life Of Us: April 2009

This year John and I wanted to change the way we did Easter. In the past (having little kids and all) Easter had a focus more on eggs, bunnies and baskets and less on the true reason for Easter, The Savior.

This Easter was so different! First off we did away with dyeing eggs, talking about the Easter bunny and setting out baskets for goodies and treats. Our day started out with church and having the opportunity to listen to some pretty amazing talks in sacrament meeting. During primary sharing and singing time were centered around Christ's death and ressurection. It is amazing to watch over such a large group of children and have the room quiet with listening children. I was especially amazed with the older children ~ they are normally chatty and are often NOT paying attention. This was a complete change from the norm. They sat in absolute silence.

After church, on our way home we discussed why we were not celebrating Easter the way we normally did. I was amazed that the kids were totally fine with the change!

After church is was home for just a short while and then off to my parents house for Easter dinner. John surprised us all by getting Easter lilys for all the females in attendance. He is always so thoughtful ~ I am very blessed!! After dinner Jasmine got to work on an activity that she had been planning in her head. She colored and cut out 12 large easter eggs and hid them around the house for the little kids to find. On the back of each egg was an easter symbol and scriptures that tell of Christ's death and ressurection. It was an amazing activity. We all sat around the living room with our scriptures and took turns reading from the scriptures the account of Christ's last moments. We could feel the spirit so strongly~a much better feeling than tears and anguish from a day of massive sugar consumption.

After Jasmine's activity we sat as a family and watched a few videos. One was the Lamb of God ~ one of my favorites and the other was a slideshow by Mark Mabry titled Reflections of Christ. It was amazing. I was even more in awe when during so many parts of the show Trinity would shout out what was in the pictures. "Mom, there is Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus" or "Mom that is Jesus being baptized in the river Jordon."

Reflections of Christ

I encourage everyone to watch it ~ it's only about 5 min. long. The evening ended with some fruit pizza for dessert and then off to home. It is amazing how wonderful and spiritual your day can be when is is centered on the Savior. I am thankful for the Atonement, Christ's selfless sacrifice and the knowledge that with the ressurection He lives again. Happy Easter ~

This last weekend was amazing as far as weather was concerned. John felt it was the perfect day to completely revamp the garden in our backyard. He had been wanting to do this for some time, but I knew that it was going to be such a huge project that I was dragging my feet about getting it done. I really liked the idea of just having our huge garden, but John was more interested in having it decorative. So I just let him do whatever it was he wanted ~ with the condition that he didn't expect my help :) So it turned into a "boys" project.