One Happy Easter

This year's Easter festivities were particularly great.

 

It all started a week early at Grandma and Grandpa Baysinger's house. We were lucky enough to attend their ward in the morning and hear Ammon's cousin, Jay Hatch, give his farewell talk, which was wonderful. He spoke with the Spirit and is clearly ready to be a power for good as he serves in Bolivia. We're excited to hear of the great things he does and experiences.

 

We were then able to enjoy some of the perfect weather that has greeted us Arizonans the past few weeks as we spent the day enjoying Grandma and Grandpa's house.



Slowly but surely the whole family made their way over and we spent a wonderful evening in family chaos. We decorated eggs. We made dinner. We ate dinner. We did an egg hunt.

Aunt Belle, Charis, Samuel

We sang Happy Birthday to Uncle Royal and enjoyed his singing talents in return. We ate his cake. We made our way down to Jay's farewell party where we ate even more.

And we even got Easter bags from the Easter Bunny (who worked through Aunt Tamzon this year to make it all happen - thank you Aunt Tamzon)!

Easter Sunday itself started out a tad stressful. Church services have recently moved up in time, which we're excited about, but not used to yet. For some reason, mommy just can't seem to be ready to go when she needs to be.

And then Mommy started in the Primary this week, which meant Daddy had to deal with a cranky Ammely (who normally naps during our new church time).

However, after all was said and done we DID feel the Spirit at church. And we DID have the opportunity to worship on this very important day. And we DID get to share our thoughts and feelings from our meetings with one another.

We got home and had plenty of time to relax and finish up our contribution to Easter dinner before heading off to Grandma and Grandpa Lords' house.


Strawbery Whip - turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

Once there, we headed down to the park to take some Easter pictures of our beautiful little girl. She was very happy to be at the park...playing in the grass...watching the big kids play.

She was not so happy to wear a hat. Or ears.

We got some cute shots despite this.

And she even got to swing AND spend time with Daddy - she loves these things (she gets both of those loves from Mommy).

And being the type of parents we are, we just had to try the ears one more time...



Ammely: "You have got to be kidding me with this."

 

We went back to Grandma and Grandpa's and enjoyed an amazing ham dinner with our wonderful family.

 

Again, Ammely was thrilled to sit with the big kids. She loves them.

 

AND she ate better than she ever has. Yay!

 

All that eating has paid off. She's come a long ways in a year, wouldn't you agree?

 

Happy Easter!