Happy Easter!

I love this time of year - the warmer weather, the flowers blooming, and especially Easter, ESPECIALLY when it is on General Conference weekend! There is nothing quite like Conference, on a beautiful Spring day, to soothe your soul and heal your Spirit. Following are a few pictures of our Easter weekend:
This is my cute daughter tie-dying Easter eggs. Her and I had to do them alone this year while the boys got ready to go to the Priesthood session of Conference. She is the creative genius of our family so she was loving every minute of it!

As you can see by the concentration on her face...
I would say we did pretty good!

The smile says it all, doesn't it?

And then there was Easter morning. We tried something a little new this year. Instead of having to follow clues to find their baskets, or just having them on the kitchen table, the Easter Bunny left a string outside of their bedroom door. They had to follow their color of string through a maze throughout the house to find their basket. Kind of fun, nice for a change. But it was hard to capture the mayhem in pictures. But at least we caught the end result (and the smiles.)

And Maddy's homemade picture, posted to our cabinets, says it all:

"Peeping" Toms

We have "Peeping" Toms!

In the true spirit of Easter and in an effort to teach my children the joy of service, I resorted to a bit of bribery. My kids love the Easter candy Peeps. So after our Resurrection Easter Egg Hunt for Family Home Evening, I announced that there would be "Peeping Toms" left around the house whenever I saw them doing an act of kindness or service. It was fun to see the kids get into this. Jake even offered to feed Maddy, literally feed her with a fork, to earn a Peep. Although he was joking, it was fun to watch them as they thought of different ways they could offer service to each other and our family.

I hope that in the wonderful season of spring and hope, that we can all look at ways to serve those around us and to truly live more like Him.