Happy Easter 2012!

This year was one of my favorite Easters! The Easter Bunny got busy and very creative as we slept.

The girls woke up to giant maze of yarn throughout the entire house.

They found a sign with their names on it with a different colored strand of yarn hooked to it that they had to follow to find their individual baskets.

They all started in the living room but soon discovered they would be going...

in the back yard...

around trees in the front yard...

through the kitchen...

in the preschool...

and out in the garage.

Calli finally found her basket in the car.

She was so excited about her Skim board.

Gentry found hers in the storage room and Sadie's was in her closet. 

Calli got a skimboard, a shirt, flip flops, towel, $5.00, Mr. Poppers penguins and Son's of Provo CD. Sadie got a new skirt, shirt, necklace, shoes, towels, flip flops, a slip and slide, $5 and a turtle ball stuffed animal. Gentry got a towel, $5.00, a shirt, a Webkinz, a Littlest pet shop, a coloring book, and Hop DVD.  After church we went over to my parents home for a Easter BBQ.

The grand kids all got new swimsuits from grandma and grandpa. 

Gentry was so excited she wanted to try hers on right away.

After a delicious BBQ of my dad's famous ribs we all got in a big circle where my mom and dad shared with us their experiences and stories from Israel. Afterward they gave each of the grand kids a shadow box labeled with different rocks they had collected at different sites in Israel. They got rocks from the dead sea, the Sea of Galilee, the mount of beatitude etc. they also got water from the Sea of Galilee. It was so cool. I wanted one for myself. I guess having three in the house is enough. They also brought back scarves for each of the girls, BYU Jerusalem shirts for the boys and each family got a Olive Wood Nativity and a bottle of consecrated oil that was actually consecrated by my dad and brother Brandon in the Garden of Gethsemane.  It was really neat to see and hear of all their adventures. A perfect end to Easter. 

Also, that morning the Young Women did a big easter Lesson with each of us leaders taking a event and talking about it.  Afterward we gave them a gift that we have been working on for months.

Months ago we took pictures of each girls profiles and asked them to pick a Temple. We then sent them to a LDS artsit that is doing something called the "Lift up my Soul Project, in which he takes the phots and then makes them look like this. Each young women is  reaching up for the SAviors hand as He reaches down to them in front of the Temple of their choice. I just love teh way they turned out. It was definantly worth all teh hard work.