April Madness

This April has been an absolutely busy, but exciting and wonderful month for Cody and I.  We had general conference, We closed on our house, we celebrated Easter, I finished my last exam, ever, today and will graduate soon, and Cody finishes his last exams ever next week!  I have a big job interview tomorrow and by the end of this month we just might be moved into our new house!  Such an exciting time for the Engmans!   

As we celebrate this Easter, as with any holiday it is easy to get sidetracked with the fun and the frills of the holiday and forget the whole meaning behind the celebration.  The little bunnies and chicks are cute and fun to decorate with and dying eggs is one of the highlights, but where did these symbols even come from?  Spring is the time for new birth, this is the season where flowers bloom, trees blossom, and new baby animals are born in abundance.  Easter is the time to celebrate the re-birth, if you will, of Christ our savor.  After he gave his life so that we could be "re-born" through baptism and repentance and made pure and clean like a new-born, he then rose from the dead and was re-born, in a sense.  Thus the fitting symbols of eggs, bunnies, and chicks to represent this miraculous event that literally saved us all.

Easter is my grandma's favorite holiday and she throws a huge Easter party for all her grandchildren every year.  My grandpa gets in on the fun and creates a game every year where money can be won.  The game is usually some variation of a target and a golf ball where the winner gets a $100 bill and the runner up gets a $50.  He also hides money around the garage for the grandkids to fun. 


All the grandkids searching for the hidden 20's.  This is the first year I actally found my own $20.

 

This year my grandpa put up a cardboard sheet with two holes and three clothespins.  Two of the clothes pins held $10 bills and one held a $100.  Then the holes each had a $50.  The first two people to get the ball through the hole got a $50 each, and the first person to knock the clothespins down got the cash! 

 

This year the game took about twice as long as it has any other year because the game was so challenging it took a long time for all the money to be won. 

 

Here's my brother Taylor attempting to win some money.

 

And here's Cody taking his turn.

The 6 year old won the first 50, so everyone decided the trick must be to crouch down low and throw upwards, turns it that only made it harder.