Easter Time

I know that this is soooo after Easter, but I have to start somewhere so that I can have the memories of events for the kids. They love going back through the blog and reading about what has happened in our family.

This Easter was really special. At this point I don't remember the Easter baskets, or other things of that nature, but I do remember going to the Mesa Easter Pageant. It has been an Easter tradition since we moved to Arizona and we are really going to miss such a wonderful event to get our minds turned towards what is most important to us, the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ.

This year we invited our friends the MacArthurs to go with us. We have always sat really far back, but I wanted to make sure they had a good view, so we got there really early and got seats 7 rows back dead center. It was memorable for us too. What a wonderful view. The weather was perfect and the kids and I enjoyed the afternoon until Mike and our friends got there. (Oh, and it was nice that there were other kids there for them to play with until then too...)

We got to see our friends the Parkinson's before the pageant started. Melanie was in the pageant for many years growing up and have been in it for several years as a family now too. It was fun for my kids to be looking for someone they knew...Kylie played the "dead girl" that Christ brought back to life.

While Mike, Scott and Cindy sat in the seats to wait for the pageant to start, I took the kids around the temple grounds to keep them being bored and to enjoy the beauty that is there. They loved the big statue of Christ.

Kristin shared her Incredible's wrist bands with Christian that she had got that day at Disney on Ice, and they pretended to be protecting us from alien invaders...or something at least. It was very cute.

Among the palm trees. This was their idea for a picture. They were so fun to walk around with.

In front of the temple. A beautiful time of night too.

Kristin didn't realize that this was a fountain/waterfall at first and leaned right up against it so she could touch the water. She was so great about it. She just said, "Oh, well, it is just water. It will dry." What a trooper. Thank goodness it wasn't cold!

These two became such good friends over the last 3 years. Katie is really missing her. They knew time was drawing close for us to move when we took this picture.

I couldn't resist another. Look at the combo my daughter has on. She hasn't seen that sweater since we moved...I have no idea what happened to it. :)

These wonderful people are half of the Seiter family. The other half are young with mom at home. It was fun to see them there also. Cady and Riley both babysat for us in Arizona. We will miss them! Wonderful people....yes, I am missing friends right now. Can you tell? :) Before our friends got there, we took some pictures with some of the people performing in the pageant. Christian is such a boy... :)

They were all so nice!

I think it would be hard to play a Roman soldier.

We had a great night and if you haven't been to the Easter pageant and you are ever in the area...go, you won't regret it. Or just go to see the flowers. The air is fantastic when the orange trees are blossoming too.

Just an Easter Thought...I loved it when I saw it.