Easter Weekend

Highlights from Easter weekend-

Good Friday- The kids and I saw 'Horton Hears a Who'. We all liked it, but Niall and Coral laughed the hardest. They were completely transported. Niall has been quoting lines and Coral has a new respect for the music of REO Speedwagon. It was a sweet, wholesome movie-and funny!



Kevin and I attended the MoTab/Orchestra performance of Robert Cundick's The Redeemer in the Tabernacle on Temple Square with our friend who just became engaged! Congratulations, Diana.

The music and text were moving and thought provoking. Diana commented on how the text taught the doctrine of Christ's Sacrifice seamlessly from both ancient and modern scripture. Several of the soloists were truly gifted. Kevin liked the orchestra the best, and I thought some of the choir parts without accompaniment were amazing.



Saturday- I took Leith and Niall to the Community Easter Egg Hunt at Draper Park. It was 28F went we left. Brrrr! The egg hunt consisted of large circles on the grass labeled for different age groups. At the sound of the fire engine horn, all the kids ran into their circle and picked up eggs and candy. It lasted about 1o seconds and each child 'found' approximately 2 eggs and 3 pieces of candy. Leith's actually seemed a bit more like a hunt because many parents 'helicoptered' into the circle with their 4-6 yr old children, creating a frightening forests of adults for the children to manoeuvre around - and also obscuring the view of anyone who thought their children were capable of picking up eggs on their own. We then enjoyed the clowns & jugglers as well as several enormous Mastiffs whose thoughtful owners considered to be a good addition to large group of young children. The Spring Carnival-like set up would have been fun for longer if we were not in danger of frostbite, so we didn't stay long. I vote for a redo in a month complete with a May Pole and more street performers.




We then made a first-of-the-season garden center run. We bought raspberry canes and rhubarb and spent the afternoon planting. Kevin has been wanting berries since we left our blackberries in CA. I have been wanting rhubarb ever since my childhood visits to Idaho. My grandparents used to always have in around in the summer to eat on cereal, cake and ice-cream.


Kevin and the boys dyed and decorated eggs with a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' egg dye kit. Lovely.

Easter Sunday- The kids were up early- some by choice, some not- to hunt for Easter eggs and enjoy a breakfast of pancakes and candy-'Dad is great!' They all looked so beautiful in their Easter clothes. When I was buying the pink ties, Leith told me that pink is a girl color. I pointed out that ties are for boys, so the pink tie couldn't be meant for a girl. He totally bought it!

We all enjoyed some fine preaching in Church from our former Bishop and a young woman leaving on a mission to Spain. Now we are off to dinner with Kevin's parents.



As we have enjoyed a lovely weekend here, my parents have spent the weekend in a Dallas hospital trying to stabilize my Dad's condition. They have been in our thoughts and prayers. I am grateful I can talk to them regularly and hope that sharing the comings and goings of our lives will bring them joy and comfort in spite of their difficult circumstances. We love and miss them very much and hate that they are suffering.