Easter

This picture is at 38 1/2 weeks, before Easter.

Trying out a new hair-do for ballet.

Looking at a super cool I-Spy type of book with Aunt D.

 We had a cougar day and all wore our BYU shirts.

"Stylish!"

We dyed Easter eggs while skyping with our CA family. I forgot how fast dying Easter eggs goes with young kids. I can't remember how old I was when I started wanting to make each one super artistic.

We did our first Easter Egg hunt (well, technically we did a small one last year for Big Sis). Baby Beluga liked finding eggs, but didn't understand what it was all about until we helped her open one and she saw the candy.

Easter morning--Baby Beluga knows where to find the candy now. We've decided that the symbolism of the eggs is the newness of life that we can have when we repent and use the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives. The candy in the eggs is the sweetness the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings to our lives. Big Sis sort of gets it, but I figure it'll take a few years for the symbolism to sink in. 

Looking at our new Family Faces book!

All morning Baby Beluga was content to carry around all the baskets, with all the empty eggs.

Easter marked 39 weeks. This is the longest I've ever made it in a pregnancy! New record! 

We got a kite in our family Easter basket and taught the girls about a tradition in Bermuda where they fly kites to remember the risen Lord. (We learned about it from The Friend.) On the Monday after Easter we went to the park to fly our kite.

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Easter and General Conference

Things we've been up to the end of March and the beginning of April.

Took pictures in a field of blue bonnets. 

We dyed our Easter eggs on the Saturday before Easter and enjoyed them with Handsome at his work on Monday as egg-salad sandwiches. Yum!

 

We celebrated the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ, on Easter Sunday. Our family basket had our first set of Scripture Scouts, our first subscription to The Friend magazine, and this years edition of our Family Faces Book. I think I may have been more excited about all of this than Big Sis and Baby Beluga.

 

 

We did an egg hunt for our Family Home Evening the Monday after Easter and Big Sis really enjoyed finding all the eggs and eating all the candy. We had a number in each egg that corresponded to a picture of the Savior to teach about the events leading up to His death and resurrection, but I think the candy may have been too distracting...

And this weekend we listened to our living prophets and apostles during General Conference. In between the 2 Saturday sessions we went to a book sale at the library. During the last session, as we were getting a little restless, we made a temple out of our play-doh. Big Sis told me, regarding the flowers on the grounds, "actually they are alive."

 

And Baby Beluga turned 9 months old! She's been outside the womb longer than inside and boy, is she all about moving around. Today she was really working on balancing on her hands and knees. She can almost get herself back into sitting position.

We watched our garden grow some more, and harvested our first round of spinach!

We did some water coloring on the coloring book Grama T and Grampa A gave Big Sis for Christmas.

And practiced buttoning buttons.