My beautiful friend Brooke designed these babies for girls in our church group. As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, every year the young women in our ward go camping for a week, focusing on increasing spirituality and drawing closer to God. As part of that, their amazing leaders (a volunteer job that about 10 ladies are asked to do) spend months preparing activities and small gifties to inspire and be applicable to the gals who go.
We are lucky enough to have a graphic design genius in our ward (or group of neighbors that all go to church in the same building). These are her talented freebies, which she shared with me to post for you!
These printouts focus on Faith, divine nature, individual worth, choice and accountability, integrity, virtue and knowledge and good works. I'm pretty sure that this year's theme was 'weather any storm'. The first one is meant to go along with a glow stick.
We felt so blessed to have all our munchkins, and see the delight on their faces.
This was the first year that some of our family had been on an official Easter Egg Hunt
The older kids still scramble for the gorgeous pops of color that were hidden so well in the bushes and trees.
Everyone filled their baskets up, reminding us of how blessed we are to even be able to afford such luxuries.
Our oldest was just back from her soccer game, aptly called the 'Blue Butterlies'. They're so funny to watch as they play and chase the ball around, all grouped up like they just want to hang out rather than chase a ball all over a field.
Such a good sister.
And here the products of their creativity and mine and grandpa's as we all sat down to dye eggs. Complete with lessons on how to turn an egg brown, we had caterpillar and insect stickers. Crayons (even if they are a simple technique) made their showiing, and our kids loved watching the eggs turn brilliant aqua and fuschia.
We always have our traditional hunts and egg dying on Saturday, and then reserve Sunday for the more holy part of the holiday. (I have such a hard time with the Easter Bunny when I want to focus on the resurrection, but these young years aren't many) We had a special talk at dinner about the resurrection, and we shared how thankful we are that because of the Savior, the bands of death are broken, and we can live together for ever.
This video sums it up pretty well for us:
May the message of the season linger with us a little longer.
These are some of my favoirte quotes from this conference. If you're able to use them, please leave me a post and let me know how - that would just be awesome to know about. Thanks, and enjoy conference!
