Easter 2014

We had a wonderful Easter this year! It was just Mike and I which was perfect. It was so nice to stay home and relax and just picture how different next year will be :) We do things a little differently for Easter. In our family the Easter bunny comes on Saturday. This is something Mike and I started doing after we got married but I got the idea from a friend of mine who does it with her kids and I thought it made perfect sense.

After teaching Primary for a long time I was always sad that kids would come to church and have a really hard time focusing because all they wanted to talk about was the Easter bunny and the egg hunt after church and half of them were already hyper from eating candy that morning. I just felt like that took away from the true meaning and focus of Easter which should be the Savior. However, I love Easter! I love all of the traditions that come with it including dying eggs and egg hunts and Easter baskets full of goodies and little presents and I have no desire to deprive my children of that joy or those experiences. I just want to separate the 2 and make sure they understand and can focus on the Savior on that Easter Sunday.

So on Saturday night our Easter bunny came. A tradition in Mike's family was to get books for Easter and I love it so we have continued it. Here are our Easter "baskets". We were lame this year and didn't actually get baskets but you get the idea :)

If you can't see: he got The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear. 

Then we also celebrated by watching the movie Hop and munching on some of our Easter treats :)

Sunday was a beautiful day. Church was wonderful and uplifting and the talks were exactly what I needed to hear. The speakers did a wonderful job speaking about the Atonement and Resurrection of the Savior. Then we came home and we talked with our families which is so nice to be able to do especially when we're so far away. We also went outside and enjoyed the beautiful day by going to for a walk. It was so much fun to imagine how different next Easter will be when we have our little boy here to celebrate with us too :) We ended our Easter by watching the Because of Him video again which was just the perfect reminder of the reason we celebrate Easter. I know Christ lives and that because he lives, I will live again. I'm grateful that because of Him I will get to be with my family forever.