Happy Easter

What a beautiful Easter day!  I feel so spoiled to celebrate our Savior’s life by spending today listening to the LDS General Conference and spending time with my family.  It’s been completely wonderful.  A weekend full of peace we’ve desperately looked forward to.

On Friday night our family dyed Easter eggs together.  Tate and Claire really got into it and did very well at dying the eggs.  Norah loved to dump the eggs into the colored water, especially to make a big splash (no matter how much we’d discourage her from it).  Since this often led to them cracking, she then discovered how fun it was to feel the eggs.  Needless to say, we ended up with lots of eggs to make into egg salad sandwiches that night.

Tate has been eagerly anticipating Easter morning (I think he thought it would be like Christmas morning all over again).  The kids woke up to find their Easter baskets and Easter eggs filled with jelly beans.  Norah went NUTS over all the jelly beans, opening eggs and stuffing her mouth full of jelly beans faster than we could stop her (she loves jelly beans and asks for them daily).

The candy was the BIGGEST hit of anything in their baskets.  They’ve all been happily sugar-buzzed all morning from their over-indulgence.

But, at least they shared their candy with each other… yay!

I’ve been terrible at keeping this blog updated and am resolving to do better.  Life has been beautiful and painful at the same time.  I’m feeling drastically better with this pregnancy and the cyst.  This past week has been really terrific as I’ve had energy and enthusiasm back to take care of our home and my sweet children.

Our kids have been confused, but happily going along with the bizarre, topsy-turvy weather changes.  During the winter I spent time teaching them about seasons.  It’s felt a little pointless at this point since the season of spring has been anything but predictable.  Our kids have been so confused about whether or not it’s spring, but I keep reassuring them that it is still spring (even if there’s a few inches of snow outside)… and poor Claire is so sad that it’s still too cold to go to the splash pad and Cowabunga Bay (her favorite places).  Some days she carries around her Little Mermaid swimsuit with her all day (like in the above picture).

Over a week or so ago we received a call from Larry’s (my father-in-law) hospice nurse telling us that Larry is now in the end of his days.  We packed up our kids (above picture) and took them to say “goodbye” to their Grandpa.  Since Larry is so young,  he’s held on longer than anyone suspected but is not expected to remain with us here for much longer.  It’s broken our hearts much more than we expected, since we’ve been anticipating the end for a few years now.  However, we’ve felt the warm, protective care of angels and know our family is being strengthened and blessed at this time of mourning.  We feel the greatest comfort in knowing that soon Larry’s health struggles will be over and he will be freed from his broken body.  We rejoice for him that he has served his life so well and with so much love and know he will be reunited with many loved ones as he is welcomed home.

Life for our family has had many difficult moments over the past few years, but has had countless more beautiful moments and precious blessings that we will treasure forever.  We love our little family so much and feel so blessed to be honored with receiving another sweet babe into our family this fall.  Our family will most likely be growing by two this year as we are also continuing to prepare to receive our child from foster/adoptive care also.  We receive time and again undeniable confirmation that this is God’s will for our family and are anxious to continue on this path He has designed for us.  We know that God lives and that He loves us.  It’s such an exciting time in our family’s life.  We’re at the threshold of death, welcoming new life – what a miracle God’s plan is for us.

Happy Easter to all you beautiful, supportive loved ones who bring our family so much joy and love.  You all mean so much to us!  We wish you a peaceful, uplifting Easter day!

p.s. I took the opportunity today to update each of my kid’s scrapbook page links in the nav menu.  I actually have been stealing a few seconds here and there to scrapbook, which is always so fabulous.  Ahhhh..

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