The meaning of Easter

Yesterday in nursery I had my kids repeat "Jesus was resurrected" so they could go home and tell their family what Easter was all about. One of the little 2 1/2 year olds was repeating it to me and said (I hope this isn't sacreligious) "Jesus was erected! Jesus was erected." Anyway, that was the highlight of my Easter!

Easter Day

Let's just say, I am glad this day is OVER! Here is the run down.

I had a 44 oz. Diet Pepsi at 10:00 on Saturday night. Let's just say, not a good idea. I tossed and turned probably until at least 2:00 AM. At 3:30 AM Makenna decided to wake up so I went and crawled in bed with her to see if I would sleep better. I woke up at 5:00 and went back to my own bed.

The morning was not good. I couldn't find Gavin's pants, Kenna didn't want to get dressed, Brent had a wrinkled shirt, and I just didn't feel cute. Sacrament was a DISASTER. I'm sorry Melissa that you guys had to sit behind us. I had to do everything not to swear at Makenna because she whined the WHOLE time. I couldn't even color my nursery lesson in peace! :) Brent had Gavin and by the end of sacrament all three of them were in the hall and I was trying to breathe. Nursery kids were sad.... and the whining continued until bedtime tonight. I don't know if it was because I was just ornery the whole time, but I almost went to the gas station to get ANOTHER 44 oz. Diet Pepsi just to make myself feel better but I refrained.

This is the only picture I really got of the kids and it explains the day...

Freezing picnic

We had the annual Staheli Family picnic up at my Grandpa's farm this weekend. It was fun, but as usual the weather was very funky. In the past 26 years we have been doing this, I remember it being nice and warm, ummmmm..... probably four times. No joke. I swear it is always either, raining, snowing, just bitter cold, or so windy we are eating sand in our dutch oven potatoes instead of salt and pepper. It is always fun though and we are glad we get to do it.

This year was no exception with the weather. It was SO freaking cold. Gavin was in a sweatshirt and a heavy coat, Kenna was in her snowboarding coat and beanie and gloves, I was in a winter coat and Brent was in a jacket and froze his little tush off. We had a campfire and four canopy's to protect us from the rain. If it wasn't raining, it was windy and cold. It didn't stop the kids from having a blast and doing the Easter egg hunt. There were a lot of kids there and even more Easter eggs. I'm not sure how many eggs were hid (I don't think anyone did) but Makenna found 50 candy-filled eggs and Gavin had six. Almost all of the other kids had WAY more than 50 so they made out well. Thanks Grandpa for letting us come up there again!