Something To Think About:

Something To Think About:
Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.

--Hiam Ginott
Showing posts with label Easter 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter 2008. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Happenings

What a great day. It was warm and pleasant outside, happy and fun inside. All of our church meetings were really nice. Christine gave her very first talk in Sacrament Meeting and she did a really good job. She wrote it herself. Mike and Adrianne came up and met us there so they could support Chrissy. That meant a lot to her. Josh texted her with congratulations. Shaun accepted and was sustained to a new calling as the Valiant 12 Boys teacher in Primary. He will do a great job with the boys and he even had to teach yesterday too. Mike stepped in with him.

We came home and had a little snack and got dinner on. Ham, funeral potatoes, green beans, corn, homemade rolls and our new jam. Adrianne asked what she could bring, so they brought salad and deviled eggs. We had strawberry jello poke cake with crushed strawberries on top and whipped cream. Yummy menu.

Duff, Christine, Robert, Natalie, and Autumn (Adrianne's sis, but she didn't make the picture)

Cute bunnies for the centerpiece. I forgot to get the flowers. Oh well.





Cute bunny plates in yellow and green. Thank you Home Goods.




Pretty table. It was very springy and festive.



Adrianne's delicious salad. She learned how to sugar pecans to put in it. Yum.
Getting ready to eat.



Shaun, Adrianne, and Mike



Adrianne and her deviled eggs. She had wanted to use the deviled egg plate she got for their wedding, but forgot it. This basket platter was a good substitue and showcased them nicely.
They were delicious. Good job Adrianne. I have to say--I really appreciated all the help from grown up kids. Natalie made the potatoes, and it's so nice to see the girls learning new things and participating in the putting on of the holiday.
THANK YOU!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter's True Meaning

"None so great has ever walked the earth. None other has made a comparable sacrifice or granted a comparable blessing. He is the Savior and Redeemer of the world. I believe in Him. I declare His divinity without equivocation or compromise. I love Him. I speak the name of Jesus Christ in reverence and wonder. He lives! He lives resplendent and wonderful, the living Son of the living God."

--Gordon B. Hinckley

ENJOY THE DAY!


We love you all and wish a very HAPPY EASTER to everyone. Enjoy being together and celebrating. Here are some things we are grateful for this Easter time:
E-- eggs, Extra time with family, evening, entertainment, Easter, Easter
Bunny, everything, exercise, enemies (because we learn from them)
A--Apostles, A's on a report card, abstracts, Atonement, Apostacy, A
loving husband, Adrianne, Autumn, abilities, adversity, abundance
S--saints, September, servants of God, strawberries, Sandra Lee, Savior,
"sass", sacred things, sacrifice, selflessness
T--testifiers, testimony, The duffy's, Target, Temple, iTunes, Time,
Terrokkar forest, teachers, teams, tenderness
E--Eclipse, Earth, eating, education, electricity, embroidery, engagement,
emotions, enough
R--rabbits, Robert!, resurrection, redemption, recipes, rest, Risen Lord,
rice, restoration

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Easter Eggs

I think we are out-growing Easter Egg dying. Sad day:( I did hard boil about 15 on Friday night. Saturday after wedding and reistry shopping, we came home to have dinner with everyone and Adrianne and Christine sat down to dye the eggs.



Everything was pretty crazy around here that day, and Adrianne quietly noticed that the eggs hadn't been done yet and got them all ready and called Christine in to do them. Wow, did I ever appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Adrianne's 'artsy' side came out and she and Christine collaborated on these two. The BYU football eggs in honor of dad.....

....and the LA Lakers in honor of Mike. Really cute, and I would have never thought of doing that! Way to go!

Christine was a trooper and hung in there till they were all done. I wonder if she'll be into doing it next year?