Happy Easter. Life as always is busy around here. (Although I did have two weeks off of school a few weeks ago and then have a 4 day weekend this weekend) But even then it seems like something is always interrupting my plans to catch up on life. This year Easter snuck upon me. I usually make easter sugar cookies and spend tons of time decorating them. I decided that was not in the cards this year. I still needed a treat for my YW for my Easter lesson. That is when I remember these pretty little treats. Chocolate covered peanut butter eggs!! SOOO DELICIOUS! These things are truly to die for. My grandma use to make tons (but much, much larger) and sell them around Easter time. Everyone in town loved them and she made a decent amount of money. Dying for the recipe? Sorry, it is a secret! I was sworn to secrecy before I was given the recipe. I think it is kind of fun to have a real "secret family recipe!" Honestly you could probably look up a recipe for chocolate covered buckeyes and it would be VERY similar.
As I mentioned I taught an Easter lesson today. I was really grateful to have been able to ponder on the last week of the Savior and really think about what I wanted to share with the YW. I found this video clip on youtube. It is most of the talk entitled "None Were With Him" by Elder Holland. This is probably one of my favorite talks. It is so powerful and moving the way he describes those lonely moments in the Garden that Christ spent so utterly alone. Then the glorious resurrection that Easter morn when he broke the bonds of death forever. At the end of his talk Holland says...
"This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ “at all times and in all things, and in all places that [we] may be in, even until death,” for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone."
Such powerful words. I hope my Savior never feels that I have left him alone. That I have looked to things of the world more than I have looked to him and his teachings. I rededicate myself to living as a disciple of Christ, to sharing the good news of HIS restored gospel by word and dead.
After church Mike and I exchanged Easter baskets. Which consisted of Mike searching all around the house looking for his basket that I put together and hid 8 days ago. Then me putting together my basket with the things that I may or may not have picked out for myself, while Mike watched at my basket making skills. This year it's ok that I made my own Easter Basket because he has been super, super busy at work and then studying on top of that. Then he spent Saturday (when he usually gets the stuff for my basket) looking at cars with me. So I'd say he did a pretty good job this year!
We spent Easter lunch with friends and went to a near by park to enjoy the beautiful weather. The tulips are AMAZING right now. It was so lovely to spend time outside on a beautiful spring day with my friends and my husband. This is the third spring that Mike has spent studying for the CFA. He spends his weeknights and weekends locked up in his office studying. This means that we hardly ever to get to enjoy the spring weather together. So when we are able to go for a walk, hold hands and look at the beautiful spring flowers together I am as giddy as a school girl. What a wonderful Easter it was.... and the best part? I didn't have to clean my house like a maniac to host dinner guests, worry about a dinner menu or do dished after everyone is done.... SCORE!
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