Easter

We've been so busy this past month! I recently landed a job as a fitness instructor teaching aqua aerobics and cycling classes. Ben has taken a lead role in getting Gangplank Avondale up and running. We've been busy a lot more in the evenings than I think we've ever been since we got married. I'll try to get us caught up on the blog here soon.

Easter this year was wonderful. On Saturday Ben and I went to the temple and then we made cinnamon rolls. The perfect day. We dyed eggs later that evening. Tommy had a blast with this. He dyed at least nine of the twelve eggs I had prepared. Lily and I dyed one pink egg together. Ben and Tommy experimented at the end with mixing different colors. Just so you know, orange and green make a really gross color of brown together. Definitely not meant to be.

We had all been fighting off colds for several days, but that Saturday really did me in. By the end of the day I was so sick and tired that I lay in bed sobbing and moaning, "I can't do it anymore." Ben asked what I couldn't do anymore. My response: "Life!" I was serious, too. Luckily, Easter morning I decided I could do life for at least one more day. Tommy woke up excited and ready to search for his basket and the hidden eggs. It was so fun to see his delight when he found them. We had a great morning together, ate cinnamon rolls, and sent Ben and Tommy off to church. Lily and I were too sick to go to church so we stayed home and slept. When the boys got home I dressed Lily up in her Easter dress and we took some pictures. I'm pretty sure our kids are the cutest kids in the whole world. Sorry everyone else.

I put a lot of effort into making a nice Easter dinner. It didn't turn out quite like I envisioned, but it was still good. I cooked the ham in the crockpot a bit too long so we had pulled pork instead of ham. The funeral potatoes were made without sour cream, but the asparagus was good. It's funny to work so hard on a meal and then have it turn out weird. Oh well. It tasted good.