We did celebrate Easter around here… I am just a lazy bum and haven’t posted anything from it yet! So lets play a little catch up! Jackson and Lacey have asked about coloring eggs since last Easter! They love it and it is a fun little tradition to make the holiday a little more festive for us. This is one of those holidays that I don’t really have decorations for. So we dyed our eggs and then Sunday morning we did a little Easter egg hunt. Each of them had a sandwich bag with a little candy and they each got a little Easter type rubber ducky. They were thrilled and still play with those silly little ducks! We talked a little about what Easter means to us with the kids, and then our primary president did a fantastic sharing time about Christ’s atonement and Resurrection with several little “feel” items, explanations, and video clips throughout. She sent home a bag to each family with the items and my kids came home and explained exactly what each item was and what it helped them remember about the atonement and Resurrection. It was a really great way to have a nice Sunday afternoon discussion. Each year Easter is more meaningful to me (I guess every holiday is) – I guess I’m finally growing up a little! I think having to teach my children about these things and bear testimony of it actually helps me more than it probably helps them! We made some sugar cookie sandwich cookies and gave them away to neighbors and friends for Easter – they were a big hit!

In the last month of school and right around mother’s day Jackson’s kindergarten class has a “Mommy Makeover.” It was darling. Each child escorted their mom to their chair as we arrived, served us cookies and juice, gave us adorable art and writing projects they had been working on for a while, sang songs to us, had a little slideshow, and did our hair and make up. It was so fun, and it was nice to be able to have a little time just for Jackson and I! I love my sweet Jackson – he was so great!

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The last day of school was a little bittersweet for us! I am so excited that Jackson is growing up and progressing, but he and I are both sad he will be gone “all day” this next year. I don’t want to believe he is getting this old already. I can hardly think about it. I love having him around. I also was aware that I really only had the month of June to plan ALL the fun things I wanted to do and teach my kids, because July is full of traveling and then school starts again in August! We’ve done tons of fun crafts and games and learned a few scripture stories in June and it was a really great month! Father’s day was so cute – all the kids had something fun for Micah. Jackson had saved something in his backpack from the last couple weeks of school, which was really sweet. They all had such a great time celebrating their Dad.

There isn’t anything more precious to me than my children! I love them. For all the frustration and impatience I feel with them at some moments, they have brought 100 times that in joy and happiness. They truly are my greatest blessings.