Easter 2018

Our annual General Conference fell on Easter weekend this year.  Conference was so wonderful, I enjoyed all the talks so much.  It was so nice to be able to stand and sustain our new Prophet, President Russell M. Nelson!  He will be a wonderful prophet to lead and guide us!  There were also many changes and new temples announced at conference.  A temple will be built in Russia, so cool.

We were able to celebrate Easter with my Mom and Owen.  Mom made a yummy turkey with all the trimmings and I made a fancy cheesecake for dessert!  We watched some movies, hung out, and visited.  It was very quiet but so nice to be with family!

Easter Monday, our Easter bunny came and delivered some goodies for the kids!  First they had to follow the clues that led them around the house to a their basket!  They had fun looking for the clues.  Later that day we had my Dad, Arren and Buck and Gil and Lily over for a yummy Easter feast!  I put a ham in the slow cooker and had planned on making whipping cream scalloped potatoes but Arren had a whole pan of garlic mashed potatoes leftover from her dinner the day before so she brought those, she also brought Calum's favorite jello pretzel salad!! I put together a tray of veggies in the shape of a carrot, which no one touched except Armin!!! Him and his veggies!!!  It was nice to be able to entertain family and spend time together!!!

Wednesday our family left for a mini vacation before things get really crazy with calving on the farm!  We headed out at 9am and made our way to Radium for a couple of days!  We made our first stop in Fernie where we had lunch.  Our next stop wasn't until Fairmont, where we went to the Hot Springs for the afternoon!  Our third stop was in Invermere where we stocked up on groceries for the next couple of days at the condo we would be staying at!  Finally getting to our condo we unloaded groceries and started supper!  Our condo was cute.  It slept us all comfortably with two bathrooms, a kitchen and a livingroom!  After a yummy supper of steak, baked potatoes and Caesar Salad we went for a walk around Radium, what we were really looking for was some ice cream! 

The next morning we leisurely got up, the kids and Jared went for another walk, making it almost to the hot springs when I got a text to pick up Armin!  It was a little far for his spindly little legs!  They walked a total of 4km!!  They saw some Bighorn sheep, and some deer!  After their walk we headed into Invermere again to look around!  And the afternoon was again spent in the Hot Springs!  We finished our day off with another yummy steak dinner at Back Country Jacks, a place Jared and I had gone to years and years earlier!!!

Our drive home was fairly uneventful!!  We went home through Canmore, where we stopped at a yummy pizza place for lunch!  Jared and I had also eaten there years earlier.  It was so good!!  They fire cook the flatbread pizza in a kiln!!  So good!!!!!

It was a wonderful little holiday. A great Easter and a super General Conference!!  Just what I needed to reset for the last little bit of school and work before summer hits!!