Easter 2017

Easter was so gorgeous!  Such pretty weather, and spring was at it's peak.  It's the prettiest Easter weekend I can remember, though I don't have that great of a memory. 
Our Friday of Spring Break we had a fun evening at our friend's house, the Weilers, eating outside, playing and visiting.  I took a picture, but my phone went dead the next day after falling in the creek in West Virginia.  I thought it might stay alive since it worked for a few days, but no luck.  My track record for keeping a smart phone isn't good....at least my last phone I had for over a year. 


Saturday before Easter Lee and I went to the temple.  The grounds were spectacular. And of course inside the temple even better.


Lois let the kids dye Easter eggs, which was really fun for them.  I don't think about ever doing that activity.  My kids loved it.








We pulled Clark in to dye an egg too.










After dinner we went to Reed's scrimmage. 


It was fun seeing him out on the field.




After we stopped at Opy's, an ice cream place near Lois' house.








We took off after Opy's to go to a mall.  I needed to return some sandals to a store. The boys went to the Lego Store while the girls came shopping with me.  At the Lego Store they had a little hunt where if you found the location of the Lego Eggs, you received a Lego Chick that you could build.  Very fun!


We enjoyed a lovely Easter Sunday at church.  That evening we were invited to our friend's house for dinner.  We had a wonderful visit with friends.  The sister missionaries did a fun little egg hunt inside with scripture references and candy inside them.  They had the kids read some scriptures and then we watched a short movie about service and love.  It was a neat little Sunday Easter activity for the kids.




Monday after Easter was the last day of spring break.  We hung out at home and didn't really do a whole lot actually!  The kids had fun on the neighbor's "squirt bike". 






Our last spring break hurrah was a hike in Shenandoah National Park on the Bear Fence trail.














Such a fun picture that Lee took.




A heart attack picture.  I didn't see this till afterwards...








Another heart-attack picture.


Cal getting in on the fun.


After the hike we had our Family Home Evening lesson up in the park, then headed home for ice cream.  It was a great end to spring break.  We are looking forward to another fun one next year!