Easter Weekend

Easter was a busy but really fun weekend. I was so glad for having General Conference the week before to help center my thoughts on Christ and the whole gospel plan. Easter always reminds me of how blessed my family and I are.

Thursday

Thursday was a busy day with a track meet at Ferris and soccer practice for Halle down town. But we still managed to get our eggs painted and all ready for the Easter weekend.

Sean thought this was the funnest thing he had ever done. He actually did a really good job this year!!!! And to top it off he didn't get dye all over the place.

Chad had a carefully worked out plan for each egg.

Halle has to make sure every egg is perfectly painted.

Good Friday

"Good Friday" was really an awesome Friday. It was the night of our second annual "Glenrose Glammies." This great activity is headed up by our ward Activities Committee (way to go Andrea!). We had an evening of wonderfully delicious food and hilarious entertainment.

High Priest Group




Young Men Leaders



Young Women Leaders

Relief Society Rappers

The Bishopbric danced and sang to N'SYNC's Bye, Bye, Bye. They practiced for weeks and weeks! They were totally awesome and definitely the biggest hit of the evening.

Chris does his solo.

The boy band of the Glenrose Ward.

I'm Chris'#1 Fan!!!!!!!!!

He even let a groupie give him a kiss. (And no restraining order either!)

Saturday

The Easter bunny comes to our house on Saturday - so we can have all the fun on Saturday and then focus on Jesus on Sunday.

Saturday was a crazy day though. Halle had her first soccer game ever. In fact she had two soccer games. One at 9:30 and one at 12:15. It was a brutal day. It was cold, wet and rainy.

Once the games were over and we were dry and warm again we enjoyed munching on Easter candy and playing with the cool balls the Easter bunny brought (big huge bouncy balls with swirling glitter inside - they were a huge hit with the kids).

Chris had track and was away all day.

The kids discovering all the goodies the Easter bunny left for them.

Sunday

I love Easter Sunday. It just has a wonderful feeling about it.

The kids all looked wonderful in their new Easter clothes.

I did something new this year. I sang in the choir. Yes, I know some of you reading this just fainted or plugged your ears or both. But I thought I would do something out of my comfort zone and I'll do it until they can't stand to hear me sing any more and I get kicked out of the ward choir. (But they are pretty desperate you know - so I just might be there a while.)

Anyhow, Grandma and Bompa sat with the kids while the choir sat up front. It was so peaceful to be sitting by adults I could feel the spirit so wonderfully.

After church we had a fantastic family Easter dinner and Grandma and Bompa's. It is always fun when family is around.

All dressed up for church.