Easter and General Conference Weekend

Since we were already in Cle Elum at Ensign Ranch, we came the rest of the way to my parents house for General Conference weekend and Easter weekend and Paige's birthday. Busy weekend! We all took showers, it felt amazing, and enjoyed my Mom's yummy banana cream pie. 

Dying Easter eggs. They tried a new way off of Brooklyn and Bailey (a you tube show that Kate watches about these 2 Mormon girls that do different things.) They used food coloring and the eggs did turn our nice and bright. Smart! Deviled eggs...yummy.

Easter egg hunting is over and they are finding out what they got. 

Preston was eating a ton of his candy and when Marci pointed it out to me I said, "oh I guess it's better for your teeth to eat it all at once than over a long period of time." ha. 

This year, my Mom sent the kids on a scavenger hunt with clues to find their golden eggs. She had them going from the fort in the sagebrush to the dirt pile to the fire pit to the shed, you name it, they were running around. It was fun to watch. They had to take turns reading it so they had to wait for everyone. It was a good idea Mom!

Happy 8th birthday Paige! She gets baptized in a couple weeks. 

The kids singing and performing for us. Cute cousins. 

L-R: Carter, Kate, Paige, Hailey and Lindsey and Grandpa Bill in the background

My Mom's brother, Jim and his wife Dana and their youngest Natalie, came out from Utah to visit my Grandpa so they joined us on Easter. It was fun to see them and visit with them. It had been a while since we saw them. John was doing games and activities with the kids like he always does. :)

We did watch Conference. :) It was great. We are glad for DVR where we can watch the one's we missed and then listen to them again on our phones. Technology is amazing. Lots of talks on protecting the family. Sign of the times and what's ahead. Makes me kind of sad to think of what's ahead. They talked about when the Proclamation to the Family came out (20 years ago) and I remember thinking when it came out "why did they have to come out with this? It was basic knowledge." Now I see why...20 years later things in our world look much different and people are changing their views. Crazy. Thank goodness for prophets and leaders to keep us on the straight and narrow path.