We woke up Easter Saturday morning to Hyrum bursting in the door telling us what he found in the hall way...JELLY BEANS and a basket! It was an excruciating 15 minutes for Hyrum to wait before I let him go wake up Noah to get the show on the road. Noah would have nothing of it so Hyrum got started without him
Eventually Noah woke up and got in on the action
...slowly
Hyrum who was just so excited to get to the end of the trail helped Noah gather the jelly beans to his basket telling him that he was almost to "Moroni".
The Easter bunny was good enough to get each of the boys a Book of Mormon figure ( Moroni for Hyrum and King Noah for Noah- they had to have some bad guys eventually) and a Bible story puzzle for putting together on Sundays. Noah was also given Bible Go fish, Bible Memory Match and Bible trivia cards ( Hyrum already had some cards similar to these). Hyrum couldn't wait to dig into the trivia cards. He has learned almost all of them already.
Of course the toys weren't the only draw at Easter
Hyrum was soo excited to get to the end of the trail that he didn't notice the plastic eggs dotting the way. Hyrum was careful to make sure his little brother got a relatively equal amount of eggs too since he was still gathering his jelly bean trail when Hyrum started into the plastic eggs. What a good big brother.
We also woke up to this outside.
We were surprised since this kind of thing doesn't happen much in Utah. I'd known that the temperature was suppose to get down to 28 and I was worried about our nectarines and when I saw this I hoped that the ice would have insulated the blossoms. We were so glad for the rain that saved our nectarines. Then later that day we realized that it was not rain but our sprinklers that we'd turned on the previous weekend to test them (and thought we'd turned off again) that had actually coated our trees, garden and grass with ice.
Easter Sunday was nice since Derek didn't have any morning meetings and we got to drive together to church. He had some things after church but not as many as he usually does. We tried to take our annual family Easter pictures but didn't get many and none that were great because it was bright
And we had boys who are budding photographers and wanted to be behind the camera instead of in front of it
But it was a great Easter Sunday. We went to a friends house for Easter dinner and it was a feast. Then there was Skypeing with my parents and off to bed. We are so grateful for the Savior and what he did for us, that our family can be together forever.
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