Easter Sunday

Easter is such a great time to be a kid! Saturday night we colored our Easter eggs. The girls got four each and let me tell you, there were some interesting color schemes. Lydia's just came out brown as she dipped her eggs in every color she could find. Casey loves the egg part because it means egg salad sandwiches for the next week! The next morning, we had a little Easter egg hunt around the house and Casey left for Bishopric meeting. The girls got into their Easter duds and we left for Sacrament meeting. I immediately knew that all that candy in the morning was a bad thing. Lydia made it past the opening prayer and started wailing. (the kind that you can't resolve by just giving her a book or a snack). So, I left and listened to most of the Easter message in the Mother's room. When I returned to the chapel, it looked like a cracker and crayon bomb had gone off. With no one to supervise, my older kids had emptied the church bag and they were frantically trying to shove it all back in. Sigh...when will sacrament meeting get easier? Perhaps when Casey is not Bishop anymore and can sit with me at church! Despite the stresses of keeping kids happy through sacrament, the messages about the Savior were wonderful and the choir (which included Casey, Charlotte and Jillian) did a great arrangement of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." We concluded our day with dinner at the Booren's.