Cornelius Chronicles

Happy Easter!   We celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ with a week of celebrations.  We enjoyed a yummy Jerusalem dinner outside.  We ate foods we think Jesus might have eaten when he was alive anciently like olives,  flat bread, and dried fruits like dates and apricots.  We attended the walk through reenactment scenes of the last week of Jesus' mortal life at the LDS Stake Center.  We dyed Easter Eggs with our Barra cousins, attended the annual Lyon's community egg hunt where we won fun Easter baskets, did our own confetti egg hunt in the backyard and topped it all off with the annual Cornelius Easter Confetti Egg Fight!  It was awesome!   Fight!

It's Spring Break week from School so what better way to celebrate than a snow storm! We also had fun visiting the birds at the Tracy Aviary, playing fun board games together, eating lots of treats, and enjoying a well deserved break from school.

Picking a tasty treat for CiCi Bunny The beginnings of our own Fairy Circle under the big pine tree in the front yard.  John says we must be careful not to go near it or else we will be forced to dance forever.  Tricky fairy magic.  The personal parable of the forsythia.  The forsythia bush was glorious this year.  It was everything that a forsythia was meant to be.  The form had beautiful sweeping branches and each was filled with the most vibrant yellow flowers you could imagine.  I loved looking at my forsythia this spring and delighted in the beauty it brought my yard.  As the season progressed the bloom on the bush faded and it was soon time to trim the forsythia so that it might spend the summer regrowing and restoring lost energy in its roots so that it might once again blook gloriously next spring.  Sometimes we are like the forsythia.  We are glorious and perfect in our gifts and talents, but in the Lord's wisdom He sees when ou...