Kings Firecrackers

These girls are amazing!!  This is a fun one to watch, you gotta see it to the end.  

An Apostle's Easter Thoughts on Christ

Easter Sunday

These are all the kids that are in our branch. This is covering nursery and primary (needless to say it is tiny!) The kids are great though and we had fun in church learning about Christ and the Resurrection. Then we had them go on a little hunt of there own. (they were all about the candy, and I can't blame them I would be too)

Easter Egg Hunt at the Talbot's

We colored eggs and had a little hunt with friends over General Conference Sunday. I love to see the kids get so into it!

Happy Birthday!

April 3rd Bretty Boy turned the big 24!!!!! Happy Birthday Honey!!!!! We celebrated by going to a Chilean restaurant and going to David and Busters for some games afterwards. We had the Cobabes & The Sorbers over that weekend for general conference and had B-Day brownies for Brett. It was a fun weekend!

Easter

I am putting together an Easter Lesson for primary (I am 1st counselor in the primary) and I remembered a lesson/activity that my mom would do for us when we were kids. She found it for me and I thought I would share….. if anyone wants to make it and do this with there family for Easter, it is really a good way to have the kids remember the reason for the holiday.

Spiritual Easter Eggs

12 plastic take-apart Easter eggs.

List of items to go in eggs with scripture references:1. Sacrament cup2. Small silver coins (2 or 3 dimes)3. Piece of rope4. Piece of soap5. Piece of red cloth6. Small nail7. Dice8. Jagged rock9. Piece of white cloth10. Round flat rock11. Spices (cloves, cinnamon stick, etc.)12. Nothing
Number eggs on the outside with a fine-tip permanent marker or stickersnumbered 1-12.Roll up scripture and insert in the appropriate egg with theaccompanying item.Display in a pretty Easter basket.With your family, open the eggs one at a time, in order, to share withthem the story of Christ's death and resurrection.This is a great "advent" style activity.The first egg is opened with the family. The scripture is read and isplaced to the side where the picture is then set up to go along with theegg. The picture and the contents of the egg are visible for a wholeday. It really makes you begin to think about what happened to Christ.And looking at the symbols in the eggs deepens the meaning.Each day you open an egg (in order) and display a picture until Easterwhen the last egg is opened.
Display picture of Christ on the Cross & At the Tomb.

1. Matthew 26:39 –Sacrament Cup

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying,"O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: neverthelessnot as I will, but as thou wilt."

2. Matthew 26:14-15 – Three Pieces of Silver

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chiefpriests,And said unto them, "What will ye give me, and I will deliver him untoyou?" And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

3. Matthew 27:1-2 - Rope

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of thepeople took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him toPontius Pilate the governor.

4. Matthew 27: 24-26 - Soap

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumultwas made, he took water, and washed his hands before themultitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just person: seeye to it.”Then answered all the people, and said, "His blood be on us, and on ourchildren."Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, hedelivered him to be crucified.

5. Matthew 27: 28-30 – Red Cloth

And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head,and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him,and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

6. Matthew 27: 31-32 - Nail

And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, andput his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: himthey compelled to bear his cross.
[And he was nailed to the cross, and crucified.]


7. Mark 15: 24 - Dice

And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lotsupon them, ...

8. Matthew 27: 50-51, 54 – Rock

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top tothe bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, sawthe earthquake, and those things that were done, they fearedgreatly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."

9. Matthew 27: 57-60 – White Cloth

When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, namedJoseHe went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commandedthe body to be delivered.And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linencloth,And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock:

10. Matthew 27: 60, 62, 65-66 – Flat Rock

And he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chiefpriests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate...Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure asye can.So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, andsetting a watch.

11. Mark 16:1, Matthew 28: 2, 5 – Spices

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother ofJames, and Salome, had brought sweet spices, that they mightcome and anoint him.And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lorddescended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone fromthe door, and sat upon it.And the angel answered and said unto the women, "Fear not ye: for I knowthat ye seek Jesus, which was crucified."

12. Matthew 28: 6 – Nothing

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said...


I love My Savior and am grateful that we can all live again after this life, and not only live again but have bodies and be resurrected to a perfect sate. My grandpa Metz just passed a way and knowing this truth brings me peace!