Happy Easter

We had a wonderful Easter holiday! I finally decorated the Monday before Easter and so Aleigha was very curious about what I was doing and excited for Easter from that point on.  We did an FHE lesson about the atonement and watched a short video about the Savior's last days. If you're interested in watching the video you can find it here.  I am always amazed at how well Aleigha picks up on things, the rest of the week she would tell us "Jesus is alive!" and about how all of the people were being very very very mean to Jesus but he was nice to them.  I love the pure testimony of little children, they are taught truth and believe it without hesitation.

Saturday I took Aleigha to an Easter egg hunt put on by the SAA.  She was not interested in petting the live bunny that was there but enjoyed collecting Easter eggs and was thrilled to find so many stickers and "smooshmollies" (AKA marshmallows).

Cute little plumber bum!

We died eggs later that evening once Trevor got back from studying.  Aleigha was pretty excited to see the eggs come out of the dye and enjoyed dropping eggs in the cups and splashing all the surroundings.  As usual Sophia is pretty content to watch her big sister have all the fun.  She is on the verge of crawling though and I'm sure before long she'll be right along side Aleigha in all her escapades.

Sunday morning we woke up at around 7 and I tried reminding Trevor that the Easter bunny still needed to go and hide eggs in the back yard.  He wasn't thrilled to leave our nice warm bed though so instead waited until Aleigha wandered into our room around 7:30 and then quickly hopped out of bed and ran downstairs.  While the Easter bunny was at work I watched another short clip with the girls about the real meaning of Easter.  Trevor then came back up to let Aleigha know that he saw some cool things hiding downstairs. We came downstairs to find baskets and goodies on the couch. Both girls were excited about their cool prizes.

Next we went out back to gather Easter eggs. In my family we always hid our dyed eggs, so we did that along with a few plastic ones filled with 'sooshmollies' and fruit snacks.  Aleigha is quite the egg hunter but we managed to help Sophie snag a few to play with as well.

 

These girls are so blessed to have such loving grandparents that always make sure the have plenty yummy treats and goodies for all holidays and occasions! We are so grateful to them for their sweet contributions. We had a very nice church meeting.  I am so grateful for the atonement in my life and the amazing blessing that it is!  I know that my Redeemer lives and that He died and suffered that we all might one day return to live with our Heavenly Father and our dear families and loved ones.  What an amazing gift!

We were able to catch a few pictures with the girls in their Easter dresses before they became too wrinkled, however, Sophie didn't take a nap during church so there was nothing we could do to force any kind of a smile!

Yes, that is a clod of dirt hanging out of Sophia's mouth...whatever keeps her happy!