Easter Photo shoot

Rebekah and Hyrum

Rebekah and Mommy
This dress has a story. Long ago I bought this purple Pansie fabric and made curtains out of it. They were my and Timothy's bedroom curtains for about 2 years, but I knew we wouldn't be living in that house forever so I made the curtains in a way that I could easily take them apart and make something else out of them. So, when Rebekah started growing out of all her dresses I took her into my fabric stash and had her pick out some fabric for a dress. She picked these old curtains, and she picked the pattern she wanted from some old patterns I had. So, I found the ribbon and thread left over from a previous project, and the bias tape from Timothy late grandmother's stash. So all I had to buy was a $1.39 zipper and later 3 buttons for $2.59. So, this dress only cost me $3.98 to make!

Handsome Brigham Boy.

Cute little Hyrum!

Darling Rebekah!

My three beautiful blessings!

Kissing Daddy

Our Family

I'm hoping to photo shop this one a bit sometime in the near future.

New Pajamas

The children got new pajamas in their Easter baskets.
We tend to put our children in warm zipper pajamas 10 months out of the year because we keep our house pretty cool at night. It only gets hot in July and August around here.

Easter Bunnies

The boys weren't too excited about their bunny ears. But, Bekah thought it was fun a few minutes.

Finding baskets

We've decided to do Easter Bunny stuff on Saturday so as not to "commercialize" the Sabbath and the true meaning of Easter, but still continue with traditions. So, on Saturday the children woke up to candy and eggs and baskets hidden in the living room.

Then they found them and managed to consume most of the candy before breakfast.

Rebekah finding her basket... do you see it hanging on the coat rack?

Later that day they got to do an Easter egg hunt at the church and Hyrum's foster parents ("nana" and "papa") gave the kids Easter baskets too.

Grandma M also sent baskets for the children which we forgot to get out until Sunday. So, they got a lot of Easter baskets and way too much candy!

After finding their baskets, then they got to fill them a little more with some chocolates and eggs.

They sure had a good time!

Coloring Easter eggs

For Family Home Evening this week we were going to color eggs, but the kids were too tired and couldn't handle staying up a little late, so we decided to do our FHE Activity on Tuesday morning instead. The children were much more excited and we didn't have nearly so many meltdowns do it in the morning. They managed to dye their hands as well as their eggs.

ZYX's

Brigham and Rebekah think it's great that I am teaching them the ABC's backwards (since they already mastered it forwards.)

I hope this works, I haven't had success in the past for posting videos.

Follow the Prophet

We have just finished listening to another great two days of General Conference. What an amazing blessing to have prophets and apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ on the earth again to give us direction!

I know President Thomas S. Monson is God's prophet today. To learn more about him go here. Yesterday he spoke to us about the church's welfare program, and the importance of temple work. Learn more about temples here. Just thirty years ago there were only 20 temples now there are 134 with 27 more in the process of being built! He spoke of many examples of people who have made great sacrifices to attend the temple. He said, "Those that understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple, know that no sacrifice is too great, no price is too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings."

What a marvelous blessing to have a living prophet and to have the sacred temple of God close enough to us to travel without too much trouble!