B+C+B+C+B+C: Easter

Friday, April 9, 2010

Easter

I'm not too into traditional Easter activities. My plan for the next couple decades is to let our kids hit one (not eight) local egg hunt then do some religiousy stuff and call it good. The whole giant bunny and junk-filled basket seem a little silly to me. This was Brianna's first Easter Egg Hunt:

I loved it because it was just with other two-year-olds and had a 12-egg limit. Notice in the group shots how all the girls are looking in different directions. Funny kids. The bottom right photo is Brianna and her friend Shaylee chasing after Sister Rudd, their nursery leader. She was awesome to put together this activity for the nursery-age kids at her home.

Brianna kept trying to open her eggs before going to find more. It took awhile for her to catch onto the concept that she could open her eggs later, and that she needed to quickly add more to her stash. I feel a little lame that her basket isn't really cute. It's actually an office organizer I use for pens and such. Oh well - not like she cared! The photo below shows Brianna chasing after her Dad, who seemed to know exactly where the eggs were:

And he was quite the sneaky man, snatching eggs when he thought no one was watching:

Brianna was a little concerned that "the eggs dirty!"

We headed back home with a stroller full of eggs and a little girl ready for an Easter nap (just in time for the second conference session! It was nice to actually get to pay attention).

I used her eggs and basket for my Relief Society lesson the next week. The topic was The Holy Ghost, so I went through all the conference sessions and found each instance where a speaker spoke about the Holy Ghost or the Spirit. Then I copied that excerpt and put it inside an egg. During the RS lesson the ladies all took eggs and we had discussions about the attributes and role of the HG that we learned from the conference messages. I tried to make the point that the conference message we heard were the best Easter gift we could receive.
Yay for Easter.

1 comment:

The Gilson Girls said...: i just read a cool egg hunt idea that had the eggs filled with puzzle pieces instead of candy, so when the hunt was over the family did a puzzle, I thought that was a cool idea.
My kids don't get a candy basket either. I fill the basket with things I would have to buy this spring anyways.
Usually a new pair of sunglasses, this year a new soccer ball (since we had to provide our own for soccer) rain poncho and rain boots, latest Fancy Nancy books that the girls collect. etc. they don't miss the candy.
But the bunny plays tricks on them. he hides their "basket"--really a cloth bag. and ties string on it and the string is winded all over the house they have to unwind it all to find their basket!; April 16, 2010 at 9:09 AM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Friday, April 9, 2010

Easter

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