Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was fun. On Saturday morning we went to the mall for an Easter egg hunt. The mall was chaotic and there were lots and lots of people. It was disappointing the way they organized the event. Most children didn't even get one egg, and some were crying. Cassidy was fortunate to be standing at the right place at the right time where one of the staff members dropped the eggs.

The best part of this event at the mall... was our daughter making the choice to share her eggs with other children that didn't get any. As well as witnessing a young teenager showing kindness and being a good Samaritan to a mother with young children that needed help, even if it meant she lost her chance to get eggs for herself. That was the highlight of this egg hunt experience.

When we got home we colored eggs and Cassidy enjoyed decorating them with stickers as you can see in the picture below. As we decorated eggs we had the chance to listen to church conference. After decorating eggs we played with Cassidy's new Easter gift her...Play-dough Ice Cream Shop. Cassidy looooves to play with play-dough. It was so fun and it almost looked so real to eat. That night when Derek went to Priesthood session of conference Cassidy and I went to "Girls Night" at the church bookstore. They have drawings for free gifts all night and special buys. Well, we actually had our number drawn and won some great books to read. Yeah!!!!

When Derek got home Cassidy and I sent him off on his very own Easter egg hunt. Us girls had so much fun sneaking around and hiding his eggs. There was even a "Golden egg" with green inside. :) It was fun watching him on the hunt. It made me smile to hear our daughter's giggles as he would get closer to finding one of her eggs. But she couldn't resist in helping her daddy find the eggs that she hid. It was so cute. At one hiding spot she hid 3 eggs at the same spot. Funny girl. Luckily, Cassidy didn't see me hide my eggs. Otherwise, it would have been a very short egg hunt.

Easter weekend was pretty special this year, because we were able to listen to our Prophet speak and other amazing church leaders all weekend in General Conference. It's a world-wide broadcast conference from the Church. They give inspirational talks to inspire us and teach us to be better.

We had the privilege to have Aunt Barb join us for some of the conference. We enjoyed her company and our conversations. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to stay for Easter dinner but we were grateful for the time we did get to spend together . For Easter dinner, we invited our good friends: Jaime and her cute kids Tyler, and Rachel (Jeff had to work).

We tried something different this year. Filling our Saturday with all the fun Easter activities and reserving Easter Sunday to celebrate the true meaning of Easter, the life of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Cassidy's decorated egg, she insisted on placing the same stickers next to each other in groups. She explained she wanted to place her stickers like Noah's ark with the grouping of animals.

Easter Egg Hunt at the mall

The Golden Egg! I thought I was pretty clever to hide it in our ceiling vent. But no fooling my clever hubby.