The Easter Season

A normal Easter season post would probably talk about our Savior. Since my husband works in the floral industry... Easter season has taken on a whole new meaning! Busy is an understatement! Usually I am the one who works until 11 at night. During the month of March, that was Tim! It was crazy! We hardly saw each other for those few weeks. I am glad he is a hard worker and doesn't complain, but I am also glad to have that behind us for the current year. It wore us both out! Easter season, I will not miss you. Though obviously I love my Savior and the REAL Easter.

Holly and Dustin asked us to watch their girls one weekend before Easter, and I agreed, looking forward to time with Tim and our adorable nieces. Nope! Instead it was just Haley, Ali and I, makin' cupcakes, cooking dinner, playing outside and teasing. It was so great to spend time with these girlies! Oh my heck they are hilarious. And so ready for any adventure. I always feel bad, the majority of the time when I am home I have to be doing homework, and turn down their invitations to play. So it was a good weekend to just have Haley and Ali time! We also LOVED having a surprise visit from Mark and Shan! Due to Tim's work sched, we didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with them. But we're glad for the times we did hang out and we hope it happens again soon!

Oreo (and reeses--yum!) cupcakes!

These girls were melting my heart when
they were sitting here! They are such close
sisters and friends, I love it.

The huge work load died down Easter weekend, thank the heavens, so Tim and I got to spend lots of time with HIL J when she came down!!! That sister of mine is fantastic at making time for people and for traveling long distances to spend time with them. Said it before and I'll say it again, SUCKS living far from her. We're not meant to be apart. But she came!
 We hit up all the good places in town!

the grocery store.
We made AWESOME mango coconut pudding!

An obvious one, Kmart.
Not! Who would have ever thought
we would make a random trip to Kmart and
leave with bags full of cheap clothes!?

Pedicures, a must have.
In this case we had to hit up TWO
places in order to get a decent pedi,
still left us a little lacking though.
WHERE in St. George can a person
get a good pedicure?!

Orange Peel.
And (not pictured) Sweet Tooth Fairy

And! The Easter Bunny came to visit us too!

In case it looks like all we did was eat, and eat, and eat this weekend... We also threw a little bit of healthiness in there too, by hiking in Zion. :) Love ya Hil. Thanks so much for coming.

Emerald Pools!
So sweet!

Just chattin' while I go photo crazy.

And leaving me cuz I was too
photo crazy.

Spring time also means GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!!! Yiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!! Love Gen Conf. Love the men and women who lead us according to the Lord's direction. Love spending a weekend being spiritually uplifted. Loved going on a walk with my cute hubby after the sessions. Though there are many things I learned in General Conference that I can improve on, my main goal is to read these talks when they are published. I am going to download them on my phone and add these to my daily scripture reading. Remember last Gen Conf Weekend? Who would have thought then, that all that has transpired, would? I remember REALLY examining my relationship with Tim at this time last year. We had discussed marriage just between ourselves. I think I distanced myself from him ever so slightly for a  couple weeks. I needed to figure things out in my head! Was this REALLY right? Are we going too fast? Am I not going on a mission? I need space! Many thoughts ran through my head for that little while. I was ornery. Ask Tim, he definitely noticed. Then, I fully committed, I knew that the respect and love I had for Tim did not correlate with how I was treating him at that time, and I needed to change my behavior to match what I was discovering to be my raw, true feelings. I wanted this. He wanted this, our version of happily ever after was becoming real. I have never regretted that decision. I thank the heavens everything turned out the way it did, and every night I lay down next to the most perfect man for me.