Twinkle and Binkle, The Starr News: HAPPY EASTER, APRIL 2012

Although it is a few days past, I am posting some pictures and short videos of our Easter celebration for you. I would like to express my love for my family and the times

we have together. I'm grateful for the resurrection of Jesus and that he made possible a way that we will see our loved ones again. I think of Mom and Dad often, and my brothers Dennis
and Calvin and his wife Joan, and know Lanny thinks often of his parents and his son Craig. It's comforting to know that we will see them again.
When I think of how I spent Easter as a child it makes me smile and laugh. On several Easter weekends I spent Saturdays with my friends hiking up the side of Baldy, sharing our packed lunches, exploring, and coming across other kids who were hiking. Sometimes we would see deer and some small reptiles or animals. Squeezed in somewhere between these activities, we would color Easter eggs. Roasting weiners was popular. First thing Sunday mornings we searched for Easter baskets filled with munchies. That never got old, even though we did. It's not so different now as far as the Easter baskets and Easter egg hunts go. There are no nearby mountains in Moses Lake like there are in Utah, so one improvises. Stefanie's youngest girls love the garden and romp around in it, digging with their little shovels and rearranging garden ornaments, including a rabbit, not exactly a Peter Cottontail, but a rabbit nevertheless. We may have trudged up mountain sides, but they do pretty well getting in and out of places, around bushes and pine trees. It's a little sparse now, but in a few months it will be plush with garden
plants.
Saturday Lanny and I spent the day not doing a whole lot. Sunday I was going to go to Sacrament meeting with Larry and Richelle, but didn't. It turned out they didn't go either. They were in their car ready to go and noticed things were amiss. Looking around they soon realized they had been robbed. The shed was also broken into and tools stolen. So their Easter Sunday was spent reporting the crime and getting over the shock of the intrusion and loss of expensive tools. In the early afternoon they spent a few hours with us and the Giles before they left to pick up Philip, Alex and William from their week with their father. They did their Easter egg hunt and dinner Monday evening. Below are pictures of both hunts.