Easter

We marched into Easter weekend right on the tail of the wedding, so I was kind of grasping at straws to be prepared (gosh, my “one word” for this year: prepare, sure is a big one, and still so much work to do on that sucker). But you know what?…

That is how people greet each other in Romania on Easter morning. It is translated; “Christ is resurrected!” and the person being greeted responds, “Truly, He is resurrected!” (this is a Christian greeting in other cultures too, but I was introduced to it in Romania and that’s what endeared me…

Just sneaking this in in the nick of time before the day is done. Because it is Good Friday and it is Easter weekend. I have not done any preparation for Easter this year. Our traditional yellow “Holy Week” events pages are hanging empty above our fireplace (there has been…

It was a good, full day. Our traditional “strings-to-the-Easter-baskets” and my Dad helping Lucy: Elle spoke in church. She did a great job. Some cute friends came to listen: Elle had a pretty special blessing from our Patriarch after church.  It was so beautiful.  Since my parents were in town…

I know I’ve mentioned it before, but oh how I love Easter and all the prep. I talked about some of the things we were doing to prepare back HERE along with the “Holy Week” stuff, but we waited for the egg decorating until my parents arrived.  I love egg coloring.…

As I write today my eyes are brimmed up with tears. It is a busy day, but I just sat down and watched this for the first time: And as I watched, the most wonderful feeling swallowed me up. I’m so grateful for things like that to remind me in…

Oh boy, I meant to post this earlier and here we are already in the afternoon.  But here’s our Easter this year. We lucked out and got to be here for Easter: (That’s the Conference Center in Utah where they hold LDS General Conference every six months.  It just so…

When I first saw this video I figured I’d wait to post a link until Easter Sunday but it’s too good and such a great reminder of all that happened during “Holy Week.” Makes me teary. So grateful for the Savior. I know we should be thinking of Him and…

(Apparently that’s Max’s “funny face”…) I’m going to let the pictures do the talking (and Elle do the videographing over here :). It was a good day. 

My sister has a boy she is dating.  A really nice one.  (She calls him “the boy” on her blog, so it’s hard to resist referring to him as that as well.) They made the trek to the desert to visit us so we could get to know him. And…