An interesting stat:
This is my 814th post on this blog.
That is RIDICULOUS.
That is also a whole lot o' history that I'd really like to have in a physical form of some type, which would also require a lot o' editing, and most likely a lot o' money unless I do the printing myself. I think I'm going to look into what I can do to preserve this FANTASTIC personal history... soon haha.
Here's a run-down of our Easter celebration.
On Saturday, Nae took Evie to visit Gran and Grampa Fisher, and since Mar is such a busy girl, we realized 10 minutes before she had to head to work that THAT was the only time we had to color eggs... unless Bill and I wanted to do them ourselves, and what kind of fun would that be??
I had purchased an egg-dying kit earlier in the week (I haven't done that for ages), and had seen one that had glitter in it. I figured that since I already have a BOATLOAD of glitter, I would save the 49 extra cents and just add my own. It didn't work quite as well as I had hoped - I thought maybe the dye would be tacky enough for the glitter to stick a bit, but it wasn't (going in the "things I've learned" file), so Mar found some glue to help bedazzle our eggs.
Bright and early Sunday morning, Evie and Mar hunted for their baskets. Evie needed a few direct hints (like, "come look in the pantry!"), and Mar found hers pretty quickly, too. Bill was in charge of hiding, and I have to say he did not inherit the Goldsberry Easter basket hiding skills that I did. It was just a bit of a crazy year (I have the same excuse for everything, don't I?), and I was focused on preparing a yummy breakfast for General Conference, and a celebratory dinner-with-invited-guests for Easter.
Just today I realized that I had forgotten to get everything out for Bill that I had purchased for Mar's basket, so I've been debating whether to stash the forgotten items away for a future occasion or just give them to her. I'll admit, I'm flailing a bit lately.
This is what I was working on that morning:
YUM.
It was a little funny that my visiting teacher had dropped off a loaf of Kneaders cinnamon bread on Saturday (the last day of the month), especially in light of the changes announced Sunday morning ("Well, relax, because there isn't any report - at least not the 31st-of-the-month, 'I made it through the door by the skin of my teeth' report.") Haha. Seriously, I have great visiting teachers.
I LOVED CONFERENCE, and loved the changes that were announced and all of the inspired talks. I am excited to study and review them frequently.
In between sessions of conference, we had a little backyard egg hunt for Evie.
She didn't really care for it haha. There's always next year.
We were feeding the missionaries that evening, so I figured I might as well invite a few others over, too.
We invited our friends, the Gouberts, who have a college friend of their daughter's living with them, and we were delighted that she and both of their daughters were available to join us.
I have to apologize for these EXTREMELY lackluster pics... I just randomly snapped a couple during our after-dinner chatting. Very candid. I don't think we were all as bored as it looks hahaha. And I didn't even get a couple faces. *Note to self: take better pics. I used to care so much about taking thousands of pictures, and these days I hardly take any.
(I think the problem is saturation, don't you? I think that may be why I don't write - and read - blog posts very often anymore. And facebook and pinterest are getting less and less appealing every day due to the saturation of algorithms that show you what they THINK you want instead of what you actually DO.)
After dinner, the missionaries had a message for us, which turned into some great questions from the Goubert's non-member friend, which turned into an invitaion to read the Book of Mormon, which was accepted. Wow. That turned out awesome.
This is the extent of our Easter decorations...
I'm flailing in that department, too haha.
Here are a couple of clips of Mar's guitar recital (also her final for that class) at a local coffee shop.
She performed on March 12th... I was in UT, so missed it, but Billy-my-hero was there to record. The boy performing with Mar in the last clip is the guy from CV that just asked her to prom YESTERDAY. Phew. Hopefully she will share some of her pics with me so I can pass them along {wink}. He rewrote the lyrics to the song they performed {Better Together}and sang them to her for his promposal. So cute.
The early hours of seminary are killing me, and I am really looking forward to the summer break. Lucky for us, our last day of seminary is May 11th... so close! I can do it!
Promposals, choir tryout results, and possibly even Prom pics in my next post.
I need another prom dress miracle. Say a little prayer for me.
Happy April!
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