You know when you have those days that you feel God is just smiling down on you? This day was one of those days, the kids were perfectly behaved, when does that happen? Not very often in this house! After lunch we all took a group nap on the floor while watching cartoons, man those are awesome.
This family loves us some SeaWorld. Here are the boys on Abby's Spin Star ride, I always sit this one out, spinning rides make me sick.
Playing in their age appropriate jump houses! Usually Luke doesn't last long in the "baby" area because he wants to be with Wyatt, but isn't quite tall enough yet. This day was a little different he ran and played for about 10 minutes.
Wyatt loves this bounce house.
Checking out the walrus, he is one of our favorites.
Beluga whales
I refurbished our boring dark kitchen table to something a little more beachy! It started out with just recovering the chairs with outdoor fabric because they were a mess thanks to a lot of grubby little finger prints. Then I thought the chairs would look great in a distressed white paint look. Once I got the chairs done I couldn't pair them with such a dark stained table, so I stripped it and then sealed it. Finished and done, ya me!
The hunt is on. Our little HOA had an Easter egg hunt the week before Easter down at the community park, the boys had a great time and it was fun to catch up with neighbors.
A rare family picture. Happy Easter!
Coloring Easter eggs hot off the oven.
The master artist hard at work. Tyler, he's trying to show you up!
Can you tell which one is mine? Ha ha.
Off to another hunt. Our church had an Easter egg hunt and brunch the Saturday before Easter. Wyatt was so happy he found this Jake Easter egg.
As soon as Luke figured out that there was candy in the eggs, game over, he wanted to crack all of them open.
Easter morning. The night before we planted jelly beans and guess what? They grew into suckers, wow, isn't that amazing?
The kids on the search for their Easter baskets. Bubbles and bunny glasses, recycled from last year.
What a bouncy ball, squirt gun, and sand bucket, "yes, just what I needed!"
Off to church, look at these handsome fellows. I'm so thankful we have this holiday to reflect on the love of our Savior and Heavenly Father. Even though there are a lot of fun Easter related activities we love participating in, I honestly tried hard this year to make sure the boys know why we celebrate Easter. The holy week from Palm Sunday through Passover and on to Resurrection Sunday we watched little church videos everyday on the Savior's last week on this Earth. I think Wyatt really got it, by the end of the week he was saying, "Mom, Jesus is wearing white now, because he's clean, and is going home to Heavenly Father." What can I say, this makes me so thankful that he's starting to understand that he gave us the greatest gift, the power over death and as we celebrate this we know in our hearts he lives, and because he lives, we will too.
I love this video message put out this Easter season by the LDS church.
