We had a busy and fun weekend, packed with a lot of fun things for all of us. On Friday night, Danny and I got to go to a fancy dinner/ceremony at the Convention Center in which Utah Valley honored Lavell and Patti Edwards and Steven R. Covey. The dinner was delicious(Bacon-wrapped Fillet and Lobster Tail) and it was nice to get dressed up and have a night out. The MC of the night was Steve Young, so that was kind of neat also.
On Saturday, we took the girls to see "Peter Pan" (a ballet). I don't know that I have ever been to a live ballet. The girls thought it was a lot of fun, especially when the performers would fly around the stage. They also loved the ones dressed up like animals(tic toc croc, and nana-the dog).
After the ballet, Danny had to work, so I brought the girls home and let them dye some Easter eggs.
On Ashley's last day of preschool before Easter, her teacher let them have an Easter egg hunt(which wasn't much of a hunt since the eggs were all just sitting in the grass on the front lawn. Here she is with her class after they got done gathering all of the eggs.
Here she is with her loot. She was pretty excited about picking a treasure out of the treasure chest after she had found all of her eggs.
On Easter morning, the girls were excited to come downstairs and find their Easter baskets full of prizes and goodies. Then we enjoyed a boiled egg breakfast.
After breakfast, the girls got to go out in our backyard and hunt for Easter eggs. Here they are with their finds(102 eggs total- I think that I need to throw away some of those eggs before next year's hunt). Then we got ready for church. I even tried to doll up their hair a little with new hairstyles. I soon discovered that a waterfall braid may look pretty cool, but it does not hold in a little girls hair for very long. Ashley wouldn't stand in the picture with Alyssa, so here they are in separate pictures.
Now I know that most of this sounds like the commercial side of Easter, but we did spend a lot of time teaching them this year about the reason we really celebrate Easter. They both got to do/hear the 12 plastic eggs Easter lesson three different times(the one that has a different symbol and scripture relating to the events leading up to Christs' death and resurrection). Alyssa even took that lesson in to share with her class for show and tell on Friday. We also reminded them many times throughout the week and they totally understand. We ended our Easter weekend with dinner at Gawbie and Grandpa's. The girls got to do one more Easter egg hunt there, and we all enjoyed being with each other on this very special day.
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