Easter

I know every year I say that Easter is one of my favorite holidays, but this year it meant even more for some reason. Maybe because it didn’t get warm right until a few days before Easter, or maybe because our adoption is about to get really real, or maybe because the kids are finally old enough to start having a better understanding of Christ sacrifice and what it all really means, but this years Easter felt extra meaningful to me.

We usually get together with my family for Easter, either on Easter or the day before. We have dinner and an Easter Egg Hunt that up until a few years ago, even the adults participated. The kids get all sugared up and have fun playing with cousins for hours while the adults sit around and talk and steal candy from their baskets.

I’m so grateful for holidays that celebrate the life of our Savior. I can’t imagine not knowing Christ, or choosing not to believe in him. If ever you question your faith or need peace in your life, turn to the Savior. He really is the only way to have true joy and to be redeemed on this Earth. I’m so grateful for his sacrifice and the changes that he has made in my life and helped me find happiness and truth. I know he lives because I have been changed by his atonement. I have felt his power. This might not seem like it relates to all these silly pictures of the kids having fun on Easter but we are all here because of Christ. Everything I have- my family, my life, even our adoption, is because we’ve chosen to follow Christ and be led by God to where he calls us. I’m so grateful for that because this last year has felt like the happiest year of my entire life and I cannot wait to see what this next year is like with our new little guy coming home so soon.

I’m already looking forward to next Easter and having one more Easter basket around, one more sweet boy to teach what an Easter Egg Hunt is, and one more boy to share that love of Christ with. I know it’s a few days weeks late, but Happy Easter yall.