Happy Easter!

I love Easter. Not only do we get the chance to reflect on our Savior and His atonement, but it is also finally the time of year I can usually start to believe Spring has come! Well, reflecting on the Savior is always a great experience. Unfortunately, I am beginning to believe spring will never come as it was cold and raining for Easter weekend and has snowed since then! I'm beginning to believe spring is just a mirage that Mother Nature is taunting us with! See the spring blossoms budding out under all that snow?

Anyway...back to Easter. Every year my dear mother colors eggs (sometimes by herself if none of the grandchildren are there to help) and hides dozens and dozens of them for a big Easter egg hunt on Saturday for all her grandchildren. The event is complete with real eggs, plastic eggs filled with candy and money, and a big treat basket that is full of gift bags for each grandchild with special prizes and treats in them. She always makes everything extra special! The kids look forward to it each year almost as much as I do--you see, it means I never have to color eggs (unless we are there early to help mom) or hide the eggs!! It's great! Well, this year the egg hunt was the morning after the piano recital, so we spent the night, and I had (I mean got) to help color eggs and hide all 8 dozen inside her condo as the weather was too cold and rainy for any outside! That was amusing, trying to find enough "hiding" spots for them all! And then since we spent the night, the boys had a definitely unfair egg locating advantage over the girl cousins since they had a couple of morning hours before the official hunt began to scope out all the hiding spots!! Oh well. Everyone still had lots of fun. Thanks, Grandma!