Happy Easter

Our Easter celebrations and sugar overload began with a egg hunt at Aunt Katie's house on Saturday afternoon. Dave took the kids while I was at a solar cooking class. Saturday night, Emma and I went to the Young Women's Broadcast at the Conference Center in Salt Lake. We got stuck in some traffic on the way up which left us in a hurry to get there. Consequently, I left my camera in the car. What a disappointment. As I watched so many others around me taking pictures with their phones, I decided that I really need to upgrade. It was a beautiful evening with my beautiful daughter and I didn't get a single picture to capture it.

Sunday morning, we were ready for church early enough to get some photos. I love 11:00 church!

We feasted with most of the Daniel clan over at Katie's on Sunday evening. I was in charge of making delicious desserts. I brought Cheesecake for a Crowd, Key Lime Mousse Cake, and chocolate cupcakes with candy carrots.

When we came home, we watched the Bible video about Easter on lds.org and also The Lamb of God.

I was tempted not to go get candy this morning like I usually do but its tradition! I told myself I would only get a little. $30 and three bags later...

Candy for breakfast! This week is Spring Break so we enjoyed Dave being home. We worked hard to get the basement cleaned. Nathan and Sawyer's room was truly awful. Dave directed their cleaning efforts while I worked on the playroom. Nearly all the toys had been taken out of the playroom closet when the kitchen leak was being dried. It took a solid two hours for me to put it back together.

Once the play time could begin, the kids played with friends. I worked on tagging and deleting photos on my computer. Dave played a computer game for a while too. While Ben was napping, we dyed eggs. It is obvious that Emma is a teenager now. She was reluctant to give up her electronics to dye eggs. Later, she was off with a friend instead of home for the egg hunt.

We had our egg hunt in the drizzling rain this evening but the kids didn't mind one bit.

I love Easter. The candy and the eggs are fun but what is most wonderful of all is celebrating the Atonement and Resurrection of the Savior. How grateful I am for the enabling power of the Atonement. I wish I chose to use it more often.

He lives! All glory to his name!

He lives, my Savior, still the same.

Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives:

"I know that my Redeemer lives!"