More Spring Break Photos FOUND!

Good News!

I'm not crazy.

I thought I was for a second because I knew I had more pictures from Spring Break but I couldn't find them!

Well, they've been found and here they are...

At the National Harbor we spotted a Peeps Store with this cool Peeps car. 

Then we headed down to The Awakening Statue and the kids had a ball climbing on the giant. 

In true boy fashion, Cody was cracking himself up by putting body parts in the giant's nose. 

Hands...

feet...

 and his whole caboose.

And after checking out the DC Temple Visitor's Center, we walked around the temple for a bit.

On Easter we had a great day relaxing together and watching General Conference. We died Easter eggs (or rather the kids colored boiled eggs with markers and crayons). We also tried out a recipe for Resurrection Rolls. You wrap each ball of dough around a large marshmallow before baking them and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. The marshmallow sort of disappears while they're in the oven and creates a hollow space representing the empty tomb. (You can see the hole in Cody's roll). They were a hit! A new tradition is born.

In the middle of all the fun of Spring Break Kylee asked me how many more days until General Conference and then told me that she was so excited for General Conference she could hardly stand it. That really impressed me since we had talked about the aquarium and the zoo and all the other fun things.

I realized as Easter was approaching that we didn't really have any family Easter traditions. So I decided that it might be fun for us to read and study the things that happened to Jesus during the week leading up to His Resurrection so I printed out a bookmark for each of the kids that listed what happened each day with the scripture references. The kids looked forward to it every day and were always asking us when we could do it. Cody even brought his bookmark and scriptures in the car on one of the nights we were eating at Cafe Rio so that we could discuss it on the way home. That will definitely be a tradition that is a keeper!