Easter 2016

Happy Easter!  These kids looked sharp for Easter Sunday.  Seth looked so handsome in his chocolate brown suit coat and tie.  Bennie wore his new fox tie and loved it until he went to the drinking fountain and came back saturated...he wanted his wet shirt off too.  The girls were lovely in their dresses.

We did the resurrection eggs that walk you through the final events in the Savior's life.  The primary president taught sharing time on the Easter Bunny, in  between screaming at the kids that they were sarcastic, she taught about all of the Pagan traditions..I'm not sure why.  Seth came home and wondered when his Easter Bunny was coming, because she told them that's how it works.  After the resurrection eggs we had an emergency family counsel, all children voted and were in favor of the Easter Bunny visiting...if Santa visits I guess the Easter Bunny can too.  We talked about the purpose of Easter, and the life of the Savior, and the symbolism of bunnies (worst pets I ever owned) and eggs.  I'm so grateful that because HE LIVES, my loved ones I will live again too.

Friday we dyed eggs.  We went to Wilson and played in the gym, and had a picnic.  The kids enjoyed the rock climbing wall, and roller blading.  I went out in the hall to hide Easter eggs.  I heard the worst sound, and went back into the gym.  Greg said it's haunted.  Needless to say the kids were sent to the hall and Greg and I hid eggs in the gym.

I've always had a deep love of my Savior, but I feel this year I had a better understanding and a deeper love for Him and what he did for me.  I felt his love and example penetrate my heart, and my desire and resolve deepened to be more like him. The weight and heaviness of what he did for me and all man is not lost on me.  Even the joy, the awe, the amazing nature of it is not lost on me.  Yet I am incapable of fully comprehending, and understanding even a miniscule part of it all.  I stand all amazed at the love he offers me, confused at the grace that so fully he proffers me, indeed it is wonderful to me.

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins—past, present, and future—pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement...

 The wondrous and glorious Atonement was the central act in all of human history. It was the hinge on which all else that finally matters turned. But it turned upon Jesus’ spiritual submissiveness! Neal A. Maxwell