Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Easter & General Conference

I love when Easter and General Conference
fall on the same day.

What could be better than celebrating
the resurrection of our Savior
and spending time with our families?

Our family celebrates Easter with
many gatherings and traditions.
This year we started off our traditions with 
Family Home Evening & Easter Egg Hunt on Palm Sunday.
Alexis & the neighbor's black chickens pose for the camera.

Doug's family gets together once a month for FHE.
It's great to see his siblings and their children.
Our kids have grown up with their cousins.
Jonny had a hard time finding his eggs this year.
He had a hard time finding his Easter basket too.
Could it be he has alot on his mind?
Emily on this chilly afternoon.
At least it didn't snow this day!
Hannah loves these traditions.
She's a believer in the Easter Bunny.
I asked her if she knew
the real reason we celebrate Easter.
She used some pretty big words like
Atonement, Crucifixion, & Resurrection.
I think she gets it. :)
I love that my older children still insist
on participating in dyeing Easter Eggs.
(I liked the UofU egg)
They wouldn't miss it.
Even if we have to do it at 11:00 at night!
Some very pretty colors turned out this year!
Cute boys supsercede the festivities sometimes...

The best part of Easter this year
was watching Conference with my family.

I loved what President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said,
"On this Easter Sunday, and every day,
as we contemplate with reverence
and awe how our Savior embraces us,
comforts us and heals us,
let us commit to become his hands,
that others through us may feel his loving embrace." 

I also love cooking dinner for my family,
my parents and my brother.


Can you believe my football/wrestling/rugby son
folded these napkins for me on his own
to look like bunny ears?
He's a man of many talents...

I also liked how Elder Russell M. Nelson
spoke on "Generations Linked in Love."

In the end, isn't that what it is all about?

My favorite part of Easter...




...is family.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Alexis really kicks up her heels for St. Patrick's!
Grandma Weiler made her this leprechaun costume for Halloween one year. Alexis wore it to school once
on St. Patrick's Day to be funny and clicked her heels as she went down the hall.

We have some funny traditions for St. Patrick's. We're not Irish but we have alot of fun with it! Our traditions include the littlest making an elaborate leprechaun trap to capture the wee fellow so we can find out where he has hid his gold. Did you know leprechauns like peanut butter? I didn't :)

This year, Jonny has constructed some lethal contraption with a mouse trap that will beat the tar of the poor leprechaun. Somehow, every year the little blighter gets away. He pranks at great lengths, turning the milk green and causing general havoc throughout the house.

Luckily, the leprechaun spills his gold everywhere and in the strangest places. It used to be chocolate gold coins, but the little laddy has upgraded to real gold coins. It is shameless bribery I know, but the older kids are already asking, when is St. Patrick's?

Saturday, February 13, 2010

♥ Be My Valentine ♥


Happy Valentine's Day to you from our Family!
We are so grateful to have you in our lives.
We love you!
As Hannah would say...
Eskimo Kisses & Butterfly Eyes
from the Hardys ♥

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve 2009

The Hardy Elves wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Thanksgiving

Hello Family~
We would love to have you over for Thanksgiving Dinner on November 26th! We will sit down for dinner at 2:00 pm. Appetizers 1:30 pm. Come hang out anytime before then. I share my birthday this year with the illustrious turkey bird...gobble gobble... Excited to see everyone there. Please let me know that you will come!
~Love Sue & Doug & Kids

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Happy Haunts

Check out our awesome Jack O' Lanterns!


We had a fabulous Halloween! Hannah went as Dragon Ninja Girl (I thought she was a geisha but Hannah corrected me on this :) It was a pretty warm evening for Halloween and Hannah came home with exactly (yes, she counted) 102 pieces of candy! Emily went as a Pep Club Cheerleader Zombie to the Highland Halloween Stomp and Jonny went as China Man to a party at the Skybox. Alexis went to the Utah Blackout game with her friends. Doug & I went as Little Red Riding Hood and the Woodsman to the Ward Halloween Party. Doug said he would protect me from the wolves!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Ghosts of Halloween Past

I think our favorite Halloween ever was in 2002. Grandma Weiler made Alexis a leprechaun costume and Lexi was so happy she clicked her heels. Jonny and his friends borrowed genuine Highland High Cheerleader outfits and went as Highland Hotties. Grandma Weiler also made Emily her cute cheerleader outfit. (I tried to convince her to go red, but no dice.) Our Hannah banana was just so cute as the Littlest Witch. The weather was beautiful. This was at our home in Stratford East.