Easter

I have always enjoyed the Easter season. The kids were all excited for the easter bunny to come but I tried to also relate to them the true reason we celebrate Easter. So on Saturday night I made some Easter Story Cookies with them. They were egg white cookies with nuts, but each one of the ingredients represented part of the Easter story and then we read about it in the scriptures. We placed the cookies in the oven and then took tape and sealed up the oven, just like the garden tomb was sealed. In the morning we open the oven and the cookies were done and then you opened them up they were hollow inside. The kids enjoyed making the cookies but no one wanted to try them because of the nuts in them.
The Easter bunny did come and bring them all way to much candy and a new book. They also got a new Easter outfit. They all looked great in them. Here are the pictures.

Beautiful Kylynn, she loves the heals.

My handsome son, Matthew

Jessica, isn't she pretty.

Aleeya,  cute as ever

My 4 wonderful kids.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For dinner we went and ate at Grandma and Grandpa Erikson's. Grandma put on her annual easter egg hunt and the kid just loved it. Thanks Grandma for the memories.

Surprise Visitors

The last couple of weekends we have had the opportunity to enjoy some wild animals in our yard.
The first weekend Delwyn was out changing the oil in the cars and the kids were out running around. I looked down the road and saw 2 moose. I went to get the camera but I couldn't get a picture because they were in the neighbors hay stack. A little while later the kids come running around the house all scared. The baby moose was walking down the road and a pickup chased him off. I had wondered where the Mother moose had gone and found her eating from the trees and bushes in Peggy's yard. The kids had fun just watching them.  They stuck around in the neighborhood until the cops came and chased them off.
Well last Sunday we had left to go eat lunch at my Mom's house but Delwyn had stayed home because he wasn't feeling well and he saw something walk past the window. He went to investigate and he found the same 2 moose walking through our yard. They stopped and ate off our straw stack for a little bit before moving on.
It doesn't happen very often that we get wild animals in our yard but when it does it is great to see. This is one of the reason's we enjoy living in the country.

Mother Moose in Peggy's yard

Moose in our back yard

The young moose, it just sat there for ever waiting for its Mom.

Family History

For activity day's this week we were focusing on our family history. We had the girls come prepared to fill out a family tree and bring a story about an ancestor. I needed to be prepared with a story for me plus one for Jessica and Kylynn. I went to my Mom to get some histories to read, she has a lot. It was so fun to read about my relatives and find out new information about them.
The story that Jessica told was about her Great grandpa  George Junior Messick and how he hated the Mormon's because a Bishop had helped place him and his siblings in an orphanage when he was young. He went on to marry a mormon girl but didn't want anything to do with the church. Finally some missionaries came and were able to teach him and he was baptized. He had said he would never join the church and after he did, he recorded in his history that he had to eat those words and they didn't taste to bad.
Kylynn told the story of her Great Grandma  Elma McEntire Erikson when she was 8-9 years old and her brother placed a little kitten down her back while she was doing the dishes. She  was scared to death of cats the rest of her life, expecially if they we inside.
My favorite story was of my 5th great grandparents Frederick G Williams and his wife Rebecca Swain Williams. I learned that they we friends with the prophet Joseph Smith and that they cared for him after he was tared and featured. They took him to their home and spent the night helping remove the tar, Frederick was a Doctor and also in the first presidency.
I am glad that  many of my family did write there histories so that I can learn about them and pass on their legacy. I hope someday write my own history for my children.