Easter Blessings..

While I have so much to feel blessed about this Easter unfortunately my pictures taking skills are NOT one of them. Seems I've been on a roll of unfortunate picture taking incidents lately. As I stated in my previous blip (I had to back blip a day) my egg dying pictures didn't turn out so well. Now today on Easter I felt I let myself down again by not capturing moments with a qaulity shot and to top it off my camera battery died during the Easter egg hunt at my moms house. I think it's finally time for me to seriously look into some sort of photography class so I can better understand my camera and photography in general.

That being sad, it was a wonderful Easter Day spent with family anyway. We attended church this morning and when we arrived my husband and I learned we were signed up to teach the 19-months to 3 year old Sunday School Class. Although excited about this opportunity also a bit nervous as we ourselves have only been attending church on a regular basis for a little over a year now. I don't have all the answers to the questions they may have had in store of us but who does, right? The class went surprisingly well and we walked away thrilled we had been able to share a special day with a group of great children.

After returning home we had a short visit from the inlaws. It was nice to see them but as usual, wish they felt the spirit of the holiday. I wont lie, they have no sense of enjoyment when it comes to spending holidays with their children or grandchildren. Enough said because I do not dwell on their faults and don't allow their negative ways to ruin our day.

The rest of the day was spent at my moms house with many relatives. We had crazy Easter Egg hunt where Carter found the "Golden Egg" which had a $10 bill inside. He has already planned what he's spending his money on and of course Jack is quite jealous that Carter found this particular egg before he did.

As another holiday passes by I relfect on previous holidays and miss the presence of my Dad being here. He passed away a 4 1/2 years ago. He loved the holidays and truly treasured what it meant to spend these times with his family. We all miss him terribly still. In my dads words "Family is Everything", a great man he was, greater than I ever realized until he was gone.

So in the end it was a great day full of blessings, family, memories, scrumptious food and relaxation. Life is good.

ps. I don't love this particular picture of my boys but I do love my boys dearly and so today I wanted to post a picture of why I feel so blessed this Easter.