Easter Weekend and Quilting with Grandma

Madisen got to go spend a few days with my parents before Easter weekend and she spent that time making a quilt and sewing a baby blanket.  They turned out beautiful! 

She used that time spent as a 10 hour project for Young Women's. A few days later the rest of drove over and spent time hanging out, playing games and hunting for Easter eggs. We had a great weekend!  

Easter Sunday with Friends

We had an Easter Egg hunt with our friends! The Bowman's, Francom's and Adam's! 

Easter-Celebrating Christ's Resurrection

I love Easter time. I always feel the spirit so strongly this time of year. I love celebrating His resurrection and knowing that we will all be resurrected someday and live with our Heavenly Father and family and friends that have passed on before. I reflect a lot on Ethan this time of year, and although it makes me sometimes sad and down it also gives me incredible hope for the future and Christ's promise to all of us that if we live our lives the best we can He will make up the rest and we will have eternity to spend with our loved ones. 

We don't dye Easter eggs every year but this year we did. The girls enjoyed it but I think Uncle Sean enjoyed it more! ;)

We also did a few Easter activities during the week to talk about Christ's resurrection and the importance of what Christ did for us. 

Easter Weekend

I haven't blogged in awhile, so I am going to be playing catch up here for the next few weeks until I can get back to doing 4 post a month. The girls love reading and looking at pictures after I print the blog out each year into a book. So I need to keep it up!

Journaling has always been important to me, and at times in my life I have been pretty good at it, either writing in my personal journal or here on the blog. Sometimes I also go through a rut and can't seem to want to do either one. 

Baby steps.

I started writing in my journal last month one or two things every night of ways the Lord has blessed me that day or a brief experience that day where I could see the Lord's hand in my life. It only takes me a minute or two and it's a amazing to see how much He has blessed us. Like truly, we are so blessed and I am forever grateful. Doing this has made me feel more thankful and more happy. And I am grateful to have learned that lesson once again, and to feel the spirit as I write those things down.

Well, these pictures pretty much tell a story of what we did that Easter Weekend, except it leaves out the most important thing we did and that was watching General Conference with my family. It's become a tradition in our family that we head over to grandma and grandpa's house on Conference Weekend to hear our beloved prophet speak to us. 

We also celebrated my dad's, Emily and Madisen's birthday while we were all together.