General Conference and Easter

We enjoyed our General Conference weekend with some of our framily (the Furnesses).  I was telling Jake how in Utah everyone goes to the grocery store in between Saturday afternoon sessions and how it's weird here that no one knows how special this day is.  In between Saturday sessions I went to the store and the gas station.  While I was there I saw the Lowders!  I was missing Utah and seeing them was a little tender mercy for me.

Siena was playing in the toy room and I heard her say "Who will protect me?  Heavenly Father and Jesus!!"

Then I heard Jaide say "I want to find this picture."  Siena replied "Well Jesus will help you."

We went to our Ward Easter party.  I made this flyer for the event:

The primary children sang Gethsemane to practice for Easter Sunday.  The twirls were nervous so I told Scarlett to hold their hands.  So cute!!!

The Easter party was actually fun!  The girls are getting old enough where we can actually do family activities without falling apart (though I did have to hold the twirls' hands during the cake walk).

On Easter Sunday the older girls got to sing Gethsemane in Sacrament Meeting.  I told Scarlett to hold their hands again so they would be brave.  They went up to the front and stood in the front row.  During the beginning of the song Scarlett held their hands up so we could see that she was still holding them.  Jaide kept laying her head down on the wood railing during the song cause she was "too tired to sing".  Both twirls waved "hi" to us during the song.  It was perfect.  

Jake was in the hallway with Skye during Sunday school.  Ziggy Ansah (from the Detroit Lions) walked past and Skye just stared at him in awe the whole time he past by.  Both he and Jake laughed!

We took some pictures in their special Easter dresses.

I couldn't get them all looking forward at the same time.  So this photo above was actually lots of photoshopping, haha!  Here are the real photos I took that day.

Easter!  He Lives!  (also I found this name color tie for Jake and my name color necklace FTW!)

On the way home we stopped to take a picture of Scarlett by this street sign (she points out every time we drive home).

That afternoon we had our own family Easter egg hunt (I don't put the candy in the eggs, we just hunt the empty eggs over and over and over then come inside and eat candy).  We found this HUGE stuffed caterpillar for the girls.  So fun!  They left it in Skye's room that night, I checked on her on the camera and it looked so freaky!

There were dandelions in the backyard.  Siena asked me "Can those yellow flowers say 'rawr' at us?"  It took me a minute, but I realized it is because they are called dande-LION-s.  haha!!!

We have ants that have been sneaking in our house under the front door.  Jaide and Siena like to vacuum them up.  One day the vacuum was put away.  They told me that they took care of it.  I went to see what they meant.  They had lots of Easter eggs on the floor.  Each egg had an ant trapped in it!  haha!

Scarlett made this sign:

haha!  So welcoming!  We asked her why she made it, she said it was to put in the mud in the backyard so that people wouldn't get messy by walking in it.  It turned out to be a lot more kind than it seemed!