BECAUSE OF HIM

While looking through some videos for the young women lesson I taught in church today, I came upon this one again. I can watch it over and over, and still feel the power of its awesome message. If you haven't seen it, Because of Him is the best 2 minutes and 45 seconds you will spend today.

too much

This is how our kids spent Easter weekend.  No candy.  No church, even. Owen slept on the bathroom floor for hours yesterday.  Mark brought in this blanket to lay on, because Owen refused to come out.  Let's just say I am tired tired tired of living in fear that the slightest cough or noise, might mean I get to clean up more vomit.  I have washed each of the babies' bedding at least once a day for the past 5 days.

Almost everyone is feeling better today.  Except for George.  His bedding is in the wash. Again.

Perfect for Easter

We no longer have eggs in our nest.

We have baby birds.

Mark got the wreath down to show my parents the eggs and we found this instead. I don't know that they look like birds {yet}, but they are definitely not eggs.  This is crazy.  

Other exciting Easter news:  

1.  The kids colored eggs on Saturday.  We also had an Easter egg hunt in the backyard.  

2.  On Saturday and Sunday, we watched General Conference.  It was so good.  I especially loved the talks by Julie Beck, Jeffrey Holland, Russell Ballard, Henry Eyring, David Bednar and Neil Anderson.  That might have to be a whole separate post - I'll post links when they are available.  Seriously.  Awesome.

3.  Our parents came over for a casual Easter lunch:  Delicious ham and turkey sandwiches, pasta salad, fresh strawberries, chips and salsa, Martinelli's, pineapple cake, and chocolate/caramel covered apples.   

4.  We looked through the pictures of my parents' trip to see my sister in St. Kitts.  What a beautiful place.

5.  As Mark was out front saying goodbye to them, I looked out back and noticed the water in our pool sloshing around, splashing over the edge.  It was not windy at all.  But the water was moving, bigtime.  I couldn't figure out what was going on.  I asked the kids if they had thrown something in.  They hadn't.  Mark came back in and briefly panicked, thinking someone was in there.  Seconds later, the phone rang,  it was Mark's mom who had left earlier and was already home.  She asked if we felt the earthquake.  Earthquake?  She said her house shook for 30 seconds.  I looked up at our chandeliers.  They were swaying.  None of us felt the earth move, but the pool and chandeliers confirmed her report.  

Sure enough, there was a 7.2 earthquake centered in Baja California.  We are 210 miles away from the epicenter. 

WOW.