I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Our Easter Picnic

First thing Saturday Morning we started boiling eggs.
We made egg salad, deviled eggs, and turkey
sandwiches for our picnic. Of course we had to have it
indoors because it was kind of chilly outside. But we
had fun anyways! After our picnic was over we
started in on coloring eggs. Boy did the girls have fun!
They just couldn't wait to see what their eggs were
going to look like. They turned out really cute.
(For commercialized egg dying,.. we don't have
anything growing up here to do the traditional
Mackley eggs.) What a fun day!

2 comments:

Elder Larkin said...

Oh, they are so cute! I love seeing the pictures. Smart Momma, you had a picnic in the house instead of in the snow. (hahaha) You guys are so cute.

kate said...

What a wonderful Easter celebration. Indeed.. Indoor picnics are the way to go! I can't believe how OLD Ashlynn looks in these pictures.. SO BIG!