How was your Easter? Hope it was wonderful. I had a really lovely weekend.
Saturday night my mom and sister and I dyed Easter eggs- normally Dad is in charge of this, but he's still in CA. Mom and I had to figure out how to do the dye!
We did our traditional eggs dyed with onion skins- they turned out dark and lovely this year!
Usually we're a little more creative with the colored eggs and use crayons and stuff but they still turned out well.
Here's my three- I had fun layering dyes (I love color theory!)
Lime green= green and then yellow
Purple= pink and then green and then blue
Aqua=yellow and then green and then blue
The gray eggs in the basket were boiled in pickled beet juice, which turned the eggsells grayish (made me think of the goose eggs we used to get when I was a kid!) and they are pink inside!
And the pink goes all the way through!
Mom hid the eggs in the house and my sister and I found them. I love being a big kid!
I somehow had the urge to make a cake this weekend too.
And like all good Easter eggs, it's chocolate inside. ;)
Church today was very nice. I am our branch chorister, so it was fun to pick out some lovely Easter hymns to sing. We had a lot of people attend today- 43 is pretty good for our little branch! It was so nice to have people visit, and some of my favorite little kids showed up today and it made me very happy. We had some nice talks and the Spirit was strong. I wound up drawing an olive tree on the blackboard for the Sunday School teacher- nice to know my years of art school were good for something! I had a nice YW lesson with my girl about the priesthood.
After we got home, we had our egg hunt and munched some eggs (after playing "points and butts"!) and chocolate (the Easter bunny was good to me and brought me several Cadbury eggs!) and I got a nice nap. We had a roast with potatoes, onions and carrots, it cracked me up to be eating bunny food today! I heard that my mom's cousin is also keeping the "points and butts" tradition alive with his little kids, that's great. Did some research with Mom and found out that that game came from my great great grandparents who were German Swiss. Fierce Easter egg competition is in our genes!
The only thing that would have made today better would be for my Dad to be with us. I miss him. He sent me a really funny Easter card, it was very sweet of him to do since I know he's very busy. This Easter has had more meaning for me, what with my grandmothers and all. I'm so thankful for the gift of our Savior and what he did for us. He lives, and because He love, I can live in love with my family. Death has no sting.
"Our Savior lived again. The most glorious, comforting, and reassuring of all events of human history had taken place—the victory over death. The pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary had been wiped away. The salvation of mankind had been secured. The Fall of Adam had been reclaimed. The empty tomb that first Easter morning was the answer to Job’s question, 'If a man die, shall he live again?' To all within the sound of my voice, I declare, If a man die, he shall live again. We know, for we have the light of revealed truth."
After we got home, we had our egg hunt and munched some eggs (after playing "points and butts"!) and chocolate (the Easter bunny was good to me and brought me several Cadbury eggs!) and I got a nice nap. We had a roast with potatoes, onions and carrots, it cracked me up to be eating bunny food today! I heard that my mom's cousin is also keeping the "points and butts" tradition alive with his little kids, that's great. Did some research with Mom and found out that that game came from my great great grandparents who were German Swiss. Fierce Easter egg competition is in our genes!
The only thing that would have made today better would be for my Dad to be with us. I miss him. He sent me a really funny Easter card, it was very sweet of him to do since I know he's very busy. This Easter has had more meaning for me, what with my grandmothers and all. I'm so thankful for the gift of our Savior and what he did for us. He lives, and because He love, I can live in love with my family. Death has no sting.
"Our Savior lived again. The most glorious, comforting, and reassuring of all events of human history had taken place—the victory over death. The pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary had been wiped away. The salvation of mankind had been secured. The Fall of Adam had been reclaimed. The empty tomb that first Easter morning was the answer to Job’s question, 'If a man die, shall he live again?' To all within the sound of my voice, I declare, If a man die, he shall live again. We know, for we have the light of revealed truth."
—President Thomas S. Monson
Happy Easter.
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