Easter 2012

Our Easter weekend was as eventful as it is every year. We started out by going to Uncle Jeffrey and Aunt Melissa's on Saturday to celebrate with the Cass family. We had lunch and and egg hunt. It was a little cool and a little rainy but the kids still loved it.

The big hit of the day were to swords. They're styrofoam but they still managed to hurt each other with them!

Sunday we had and early service at church at 8:00. The kids were not in a good mood.

We had breakfast after the early service, thought that would make the kids feel better. It helped for a little while.

They didn't want to go to Sunday school, I don't know why, they love Sunday school.

During the regular service I sent them to the nursery, breathed a sigh of relief that I would have a few minutes to myself. I heard crying. It got louder. It was Clae, coming into the sanctuary, during the sermon, crying at the top of his lungs, "I HAVE TO GO PEE." That was the real low point of the day.

By the time we got home at noon I was completely exhausted. I thought they would take the longest nap they've ever taken. An hour and a half.

I should have known by the look on Lydia's face in these pictures, it wasn't going to be a good day.

I had to show this picture of my sweet little almost-two-year old last Easter. My how the attitude has changed in a year. I'm hoping it's a phase.

Playing legos at my parent's. The attitudes were getting a little bit better at this point.

Of course we did another egg hunt with my family. This is post nap, but we're still having some issues off and on.

This one is blurry but I thought it was funny. It's like he's running to get the eggs before ALLLLL of the other kids get to them. Oh, wait, the only other kid is Lydia and she's really not even that interested in finding the eggs.

It really was a good weekend, despite the frustrating moments, and the sadness in my heart over our recent loss. The sadness is always there, but for some reason I was much more aware of it this weekend.

We had a wonderful church service, we're trying to do things a little bit differently, I think the changes went over really well.

I'm so thankful that through all of the joys and trials of life that my Savior lives!