Easter Fun

Well, Easter was a little different this year, because we didn't have our families around, but we did manage to have some fun. All of the kids but Parker decorated Easter eggs. Because Tanner is still unaware of a lot of things, he got the eggs that Mom accidently dropped or got cracked as they were boiling. He just wanted to crack and peel his, so his are a little rough looking. But I think they had a good time, dyeing and tatooing their eggs.




The Easter bunny decided to bring the kids new Sunday clothes this year, and boy, did we have some good looking kids on Sunday. Shane kept teasing Josh about all the girls that would be after him, but he wasn't convinced. He did say, however, that no one at church commented or noticed how handsome he looked. I told him that I did, but I don't think that counted much in his eyes. Parker was getting a quick morning nap before church because he wakes up way to early here (6:00-6:30 a.m.), so he wasn't in the pictures.





Our church day went much better yesterday. First of all we have to tell you that we love the internet. We were able to access a radio station's website from Idaho Falls that plays LDS church music on Sundays. It's called "The Sounds of Sunday" from KLCE, and they have their music available over the web. So we had some lovely church music to help set our mood before we left. When we got to church, Shane had to speak, so after the Sacrament, I had both little boys solo and they were loud and all over - again. We had brought toys and a snack, hoping that we could use that little coat room that I talked about in the last post. But after the meeting, the Primary President came up to us, said that she was running a nursery today, and could Tanner go with her? (Do chickens have wings? Of course, he can go with you, we were thinking.) She took him into a room where they had some toys and kept him for both hours. He was the only nursery-aged child there, too, so we were so impressed that they would do all that just for him. He was much happier, getting to play, snack, and not be quite so quiet as he had last week. We were very happy just be able to mostly listen to the lessons. We still had Parker, but he found a friend, and the friend had new toys, so he was happy. I know that they are meeting to talk about a nursery with the branch presidency, so one of us may get called to be a nursery leader, but if it keeps Tanner happy, contained, and out of everyone's hair, it's definetly worth it.

We also got invited to a friend's house yesterday for Easter dinner, and her children put together an Easter egg hunt for the kids. The kids were so sad about missing Grandma Clayson's Easter egg hunt this year, so this helped ease the pain a little. The dinner was yummy and we've found some people who will like to play games, inside and out, so we will have a couple and family to get together with on a frequent basis to play with. Overall, it was a very good day. Sorry that you can't see Josh. He's behind Luke, but I didn't notice until we got home.