Easter... tired but Happy..

Ok, so I know I've been a little slow posting over the last two weeks, but last week all the kid's were home from school for Spring Break, and Tom has been recovering from surgery. It's been pretty hard for him, and so because of the care he has needed, I haven't had a ton of time to get onto the computer.... but today, I'm going to post about Easter.

The Saturday before Easter we made our own marshmallow Easter shapes. We melted a bag of marshmallows, poured it onto a greasted pan, then used cookie cutters to make the shapes. We divided the melted marshmallows into different colors, and then kneaded the different colors of marshmallow together to form a "marbelized" look. The kids had alot of fun doing that, and it was alot quicker than making a whole recipe of marshmallows like we did before.
We also died eggs, and made our "Easter Story Cookies". The Easter story cookies are the ones where you read a scripture with each ingredient, and the cookies are not done until the next morning. And when you eat them they are hollow inside or "empty", like the tomb. (I posted the recipe for them last year, click here: Easter Story Cookies )


On top of that, I was busy making an Easter gift for the children in Primary. I decided to design a "Scripture Bag" for all the kids, since we've been encouraging them to bring their scriptures. On one side of the bag I put the words to the song "Scripture Power", and on the the other side I just simply put the words, "My Scripture Bag".

The night before Easter was a hard one. We had to take Tom to the ER at 1:00am. I couldn't find anyone to come and stay at our house with the kids while I took him, so I just piled them in the van and we all drove him out there. We waited in the van while he went inside. Tom turned out to be fine, he's just having hard time with his recovery, but none of us got to sleep until about 3:30 a.m.
That late night didn't deter the kid's from waking up at 7:30 a.m. to see what the Easter Bunny brought. So, all of you who think that keeping children up late will make them sleep in in the morning, that doesn't apply at our house. My children will not sleep late no matter what time they go to bed!! Needless to say, I was exhausted, and so were they, but we had a happy morning anyway.
For Breakfast I made carrot pancakes. It was a recipe I found online for pancakes using a carrot cake mix. It was pretty good. Then, after church we had the traditional ham dinner. All in all it was a great day.