Beautiful Easter

Rob was super sick on Easter Sunday (food poisoning? Flu?). I felt so bad for him and that he wasn't able to celebrate the day with us. He stayed home to rest and I left on my own for church to handle the 2 year-old who dislikes nursery. I wish I could say that I had gotten lots out of the lessons about the Savior and about Easter, but I was mostly happy to just have made it through the meetings all by myself. Singing "This is the Christ" with the choir during sacrament meeting was enough for me though- it brought tears to my eyes. I love that song.

After church, I had to snap some traditional pictures of Drake in his cute new Easter clothes---

After all, he is quite adorable in my opinion. :)

It seems completely impossible to ever get a picture of this little boy smiling. It's funny because he giggles and laughs and smiles all the time, but just never on cue when I need him to! :) And yes, I know he is in sneakers for church. His church sandals were at Grandma's house.

Yay! A great one of my handsome boy smiling-

The Easter Bunny came to our house Sunday after church since we have 9am church. In the future, I think we are going to ask him to come on Saturday morning. I've heard of others celebrating "Easter Bunny Day" the day before and I'm loving that idea.

Drake: "Where is it?" AND "I found it!"

Rob is happy as long as he gets Reese's peanut butter eggs, peeps, and a new toothbrush.

That's one smart bunny to bring Mom her FAVORITE candy bar!

 (And an awesome water holding backpack or whatever they are called- thanks Rob!)

 Drake's favorite was his new BUBBLE GUN!

We had a really yummy Ham & Funeral Potato dinner. Rob was feeling well enough to eat a little. After long Sunday naps, mom was going to head to work, but SURPRISE, was put on-call!

So we spent the entire evening outside on a blanket enjoying the weather.

 ...and the Bubble Gun...

 Sasha and I just laid back and watched Drake being Drake. It was heavenly.

Spending Saturday evening in the temple with Hunter the day before Easter was the perfect thing to do to turn my thoughts and my heart toward the Easter holiday. The atonement has meant different things to me at different points in my life. But this year, because of the challenges I'm experiencing and the point I'm at in my life, my thoughts are mostly turned towards my family. To me, it means forgiveness. Forgiveness for when I'm an ornery, terrible wife or mother. It means that my boys belong to me for forever if I'm obedient. I'm so thankful that the Savior made it possible for both of those things to be true. I can't imagine eternity without the two that I love most (and without both of our amazing families).

If you find this sappy I'm sorry, but I feel it's important to use this blog as a way to bear my testimony and I always want my friends and family to know what I believe.

I'm so thankful for wonderful weekends like this when life is put into perspective and for when I realize all that I truly have to be grateful for...