Easter

Happy Easter! Our day could be summed up in one word: bleh! All of us were sick. My dad came home with a cold, and Ellie quickly caught it and passed it on to Mike and me. We managed to make it to sacrament meeting, but then came home and spent most of the rest of the day sniffling, coughing, and aching. But Ellie did get to wear her new Easter dress for a little while.


Here she is pretending to be a puppy (one of her favorite words to say). She took Grandpa Ken for a walk around the house, and it was the highlight of her day!

Due to our sick condition, we had to postpone our Easter Egg Hunt, but when it finally did happen, Ellie was absolutely thrilled! What? You can open these colorful plastic eggs an find candy inside?!? Best day ever!

In reverence of the holiday, and all that it means, I'd like to share one of my all-time favorite quotes, by Elder Neal A. Maxwell:

"As this Easter day draws to a close, how fitting that we contemplate atoning Jesus--bending and curved in Gethsemane. His bleeding curvature transformed the grammar of death. Until Gethsemane and Calvary, death was a punctuating, rigid exclamation point! Then death too, curved-- into a mere comma!" (Ensign, May 1994, p. 91)