Easter Times are Good Times

My Easter weekend was pretty fun. Saturday was full of lots of this:

Which, as you all know, is my favorite.
It also involved some of this:

Slack-lining. Ever heard of it? It's a "sport" of sorts. And it ain't easy!
And then there may or may not have been some egg dying activities...

The two on the front left were my little masterpieces.

And then, on Sunday, I faced my fears and sang in front of our church congregation for our Easter program. I sang as a member of our choir and also in a quartet. For those of you that know me well, this is a big deal because singing in front of other people scares the you-know-what out of me, which usually leads to things like shaking and sweating uncontrollably and a little thing I like to call "voice paralysis." Not exactly what you want to have happen when you're up in front of 100+ people. But, since my theme for this year is "No Fear"... I decided that I need to try and face my fear of this because God has blessed me with a decent singing voice and I feel ungrateful if I can't even use it to sing His praises. So, long story short, I prayed and prayed and prayed this week that I would not embarrass my quartet by freaking out in the moment and that my nerves would be calm so that I could sing my testimony of the Savior. Well, God must love me because I was able to sing all of my notes clearly (without a horrible shaky-ness in my voice - or with crackings or what have you) and actually think the song turned out pretty well (much better than I was expecting at least...). I did have to deal with the fact that my entire body was shaking pretty much uncontrollably (and that everyone could probably see that), but it didn't matter that I looked nervous because I sounded just fine. So, chalk that down as one more fear successfully faced this year so far!

After church, my buddies and I decided to eat the eggs we dyed for a lunch picnic...

I like to call this the "egg" massacre... They fought well, but in the end, we prevailed!

And later that night, my roommate and I hosted an Easter feast for about 20 people (that's not an exaggeration)...

We ate outside on the lawn and then we played ladder ball. Have you ever played that game? It is fun! Mostly because I was sure I was going to suck at it... and then I didn't suck that badly! In fact, I think with some practice, I could be pretty dang good!

Also involved in my Easter celebrations were a FaceTime session with my family and Easter baskets from my roommate and my brother:

There is so much candy happening up in here.

With sunshine, good friends, good food, and an excess of chocolate, how can you really go wrong?