Easter Morning

I finally have a little bit of time to catch up a little bit on our journal. Here are some pics from our Happy little Easter.

We're all set for the dying

Chris actually fell asleep through half of our date so I just had some fun dying them all by myself

That was supposed to look like the Easter Bunny (the orange one...)

This was the sunset the night after I sang in conference. The night before Easter. Such a beautiful sight.

Lydia, upon finding her Easter Basket.

Her cousins did not hesitate in showing how to open the eggs to find the candy that I put in there just to make it rattle!

And she did not hesitate to eat it!

It wasn't exactly a beautiful Easter this year. With snow on the ground and cold cold weather, Easter wasn't all flowers, blossoms and Easter Egg hunts in the tall grass on a sunny spring day. This does not change the fact that Easter has a special meaning though. This did not lessen the deeper significance of this sacred holiday for I... "stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me, confused at the grace that so fully He proffers me. I tremble to know that for me He was crucified. That for me, a sinner, He suffered, He bled, and died!" My knowledge of and relationship with my Savior grows every day. I especially notice different things having my sweet daughter around. I am often reminded of the Savior's love when I think of how much I love her, when I see her sweet innocence and her angelic sincerity. I was tucking her in bed the other night and I said to her, "If you get scared tonight Jesus is right here, He'll be watching over you so you don't need to be afraid." She jumped up onto her feet at the sound of Jesus's name, turned to the picture of Jesus that hangs above her crib and pointed to Jesus saying, "Dee-su! Dee-Su!" She knows Him, I know it. She can possibly still remember a little bit of what it felt like to be in His presence. Jesus Christ, my Savior, lives! He came to the people in the Book of Mormon and reiterated the magnitude of His love as He ministered unto them. I am so grateful for my blessings and for my Savior, who descended from His throne and position of power and suffered all things...just so that I can come home again. But more importantly I have realized a new gratitude for the Atonement. That is I am so incredibly grateful for Jesus Christ because of His act of love for my daughter. I have always thought of the Atonement being for me and saving me, allowing me to repent, comforting me, and overcoming my weakness and sin. I now appreciate the Atonement differently because it provides all of those things for my little girl.

"Oh it is Wonderful! Wonderful to me!"