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What Does Easter Mean To You?

'Don't be alarmed,' he said. 'You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.'”

Mark 16:6 NIV

For me, Easter means a lot more than chocolate bunnies, Easter eggs and candy.  On Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with our friends and family.  It is a time for fun, laughter, prayer, joyfulness and of course a few eggs to hide, candy to eat and of course the Easter Bunny.  Di you know that Easter is typically the most well-attended Sunday service of the year?  I know every year at our Easter service it is hard to leave with a dry eye.  The sermon is so powerful and the room is full of love, prayers and pure awesomeness!

I would like to share a little of my families Easter 2012.

 Everyone trying to find their eggs!!

 Sweet cousins helping each other out.

 The family admiring the beautiful cake.  Isn't awesome?!?

 I sweet little duck decided to join us Easter morning.

My sweet Grace searching for eggs.

Is It Time For School YET?!?!

I am sure this week has been a long week for several of us.  Many areas were hit with the freezing temperatures, insane amounts of snow and lets not forget the crippling ice.  This left many of us at home with our children.  For me, I enjoyed it.  I take every minute I can with my daughter and cherish it.  I understand not everyone sees it this way, but I take it as little gifts.  Gifts of extra time to spend with the most important girl in my life. 

We played games, many that bought back good fun memories.  She helped me clean and with the laundry, which was awesome!   That was actually today.  I was getting ready to fold some clothes and Grace came up and asked if she could help.  I quickly jumped on that!  It was a good four days off, but as many say all good things must come to an end. 

This picture was taken Wednesday evening.  That was the day we made a fire, she helped me clean and we played games for almost 2 hours.  I guess I really wore her out.  She feel asleep playing her DSi and listening to her ipod. 

Love it!
Love her!

Always love, hold and kiss your children!! 

The Pig Out of It's Home by Julia Grace

As part of Grace's homework she had to write a story. Here were the guidelines she had to follow:

• Write about a pig that does not live in a pigpen. What would their life be like?
• Use some of the spelling words from this week.

Pretty simple, right? Grace just needed some paper, a pencil, an eraser and some sweet imagination. I really wanted to share her story with you. I always love when Grace brings home writing. She loves to write stories and I (as I'm sure all you parents do) love to hear them! I wish you could see the words better. My copier is not hooked up to my laptop and well, I just had issues. The picture you see is from a camera. I will type the story Grace wrote:

The Pig Out of it's Home

The pig wanted to go to the store to find a dress but instead he found a triangle diamond and at night he tried to find a pool to splash in but he did not find one so he tried to find his home and he could not! And he was sad! So he found his car and he drove home and he might pick something up to eat, but he got tired of driving so he stoped at a hotel to sleep. And then he found his family and he was safe and sound at home.

I typed it exactly how she wrote it. I put the spelling words in bold type. I thought the story was pretty cool and I loved how she used the vocabulary words.

What Do You Do For Your Snow Days?

The first thing Grace wanted to do when she woke up was take some pictures of the snow. These were taken by her on her camera. She loves taking pictures. This one is part of our garage looking out our front door. She was into getting the top of the houses.

Here is looking out our front door. Beautiful snowy day.



Today was the perfect day to make cookies. Grace was home due to the snow and I wanted some fun things for us to do. During all the Christmas clearance I picked up some fun cookie cutters for just $0.42 for a 6 pack. I like them because they are plastic and are easy for kids to use.


Grace had a lot of fun! By the end I put her to work. She would roll out the dough, spread it out and cut the cookies.


I didn't have any frosting or sprinkles, but we think they turned out great! What is better than fresh sugar cookies in the shape of a snowman on a snowy day?

I think it is an excellent idea to cook with your children. It is a fun and easy activity you can do together. They are having fun and learning at the same time. Reading the recipes and a great learning tool. It can help with reading, math and understand measurement. I include Grace as much a possible. I also think it is best when you do it together and not just show your child or children.