Our Easter

Our Easter this year was fun, though we sure missed having ALL of our family with us. Allison and Mike, just because you are geographically far away, you are never far from our hearts!! And Adam and Gracie...we just miss you super duper looper much!

Well, we started by coloring our eggs on Saturday. Many thanks to Danyel for doing the jobs that I hate to do...she stood there and monitored the eggs, got them into cold water, and then individually dried them off and packaged them...What a gem. (To top it all off, the sweet girl loves to roll out pizza dough, and she is fantastic at it!! So far, my sons have made VERY, VERY GOOD choices when it comes to the wonderful women they have married!!!) Saturday, all came in the afternoon to celebrate Doran's 24th birthday and then we colored eggs. It took awhile, but the eggs came out beautiful! Dee used colored crayons to draw various scenes on his eggs. But my favorite was the one that had "Dee loves(a heart) Suz"- sure made it hard to eat that one.

We had an uneventful Easter morning...no more baskets and candy. Dad had early meetings, and Kate and I had choir practice early. We had a wonderful Sacrament Meeting. Joy and Randy Black spoke on the atonement. What a spiritual feast to hear Randy. I looked at Joy up in front, after enduring Randy's chemotherapy, radiation, and recent surgery where Randy almost died due to a blood clot in his lung. I, myself, sometimes think about why I am having to endure a particular trial...but nothing like what she is facing. They are in our prayers always. After that wonderful meeting, it was off to Nursery, where the other workers were either sick or away. Again, Doran and Danyel to the rescue! One little one, Gabby, was quite smitten with my son...she even called him "Daddy"!

After church, we came home, peeled the eggs, and Dad made his traditional Sunday deviled eggs. Yum! Then, it was off to Grandma's for Easter Dinner and Egg Hunting. In attendance were most of the family, except for Marissa and her husband and kids, and Allison, Mike, Adam and Grace. It was fun to see the new babies: Shelley had son Barrett a few weeks ago and Kendall and Stephanie were there with Marin, 10 weeks old. That sweet little girl had a hard start...in the hospital at only a few weeks of age after coming down with RSV, but she looks wonderful now. Grandma hid over 300 eggs, but with 37 people searching, it was hard to get too many. (I broke a personal record...I found three...and one I found after my husband missed it- something that just never happens!!It only took 28 years to achieve this!!)All sat around the back yard and talked for awhile. It is hard for Marina and Mike to get off work, so this was a rare cherished pleasure!