Easter fun 2016

We did a few fun things for Easter this year.  Bethany sent us some scrambled eggs to figure out.  We got all but one pretty easily.  We still haven't figured out what the orange eggs are supposed to say.  I guess she will have to give us a hint sometime.

We had a good time together coloring eggs.  The kids always look forward to coloring eggs.  We also went and did a flashlight Easter egg hunt with some friends.  I loved it!  I am going to host one next year in Wyoming.

The boys being cool.  I hope David isn't really going to drink the egg dye.

Julia and Emma showing off their favorite superhero eggs.

Easter Sunrise service at Natural Bridge

We had a wonderful Easter this year.  We have been wanting to see Natural Bridge but hadn't been there yet.  A friend told us that they did a sunrise service there on Easter morning so Neil, Emma, Matthew and I went.  It was a beautiful morning.  The service was a different style than we were used to, but taught truths of the resurrection.  We enjoyed seeing Natural Bridge and thinking about our Savior.

Natural Bridge was owned by Thomas Jefferson and surveyed by George Washington.  It is a very cool natural wonder.  You can still see where George Washington supposedly carved his initials.  The highway drives right over Natural Bridge still today but you can't see it from the road.

It is really hard to see, but this is supposed to be George Washington's initials carved in the wall at Natural Bridge.

Springtime in Virginia has been AMAZING!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  If that is the case there are a lot of words that don't need to be written on today's post because it is full of pictures.  Even if a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture really can't do justice to the beauty here in the spring.  The colors have been amazing!  The flowers and the buds on the trees have been so beautiful. I am so glad we have been here every season and not just a few weeks or days. I was giving some of the boys a ride to soccer and asked them what the white trees were.  They said they didn't know they just called them Popcorn trees.  A little a later we saw the yellow trees. I asked what kind they were and they told me Buttered Popcorn trees.  I still don't know what the trees are, but the boys made me smile.  I love the purple trees.  The white, yellow and pink are also beautiful. Here are lots of pictures.  I hope you enjoy seeing some of the beautiful colors.