Easter Week

I haven't been a very consistent blogger lately - I'm not sure what my excuse is, but I'll try to catch you all up here.

We colored eggs with the whole gang once again. Since I'm the only one in my family with kids so far, the aunts and uncles always want to come over for this seasonal festivity. Who doesn't love an excuse to dye an egg?

I think Uncle chris enjoys it more than anyone!!

We had been planning for weeks to take the girls camping on Good Friday. It was the only weekend Emma didn't have a soccer game, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity for Ryan to show his daughters how to hike, roast hot dogs over the fire, and sleep in a tent. Perfect until we saw the weather forecast on Wednesday - steady rain and overnight lows in the 30's. Yeah, not so fun.

The girls would have been very disappointed that our adventure was canceled, so we came up with an alternate adventure. Our great friends who are in the Air Force, now live in the DC area, and just had their fourth baby girl. We made a spontaneous decision to go see them for the day, and we're so glad we did! The traffic was terrible, and the 3+ hour drive took us 5 hours, but God is good - He had someone invent DVD players for the car! :) So the girls were fine, and Ryan and I enjoyed the chance to talk without the TV on!

Lila has been anticipating the arrival of this baby for a full 9 months! Our friends lived here when Melynie found out she was expecting, and Lila was Interested (with a capital I)! It was the first time she was old enough to think about it, and close enough to the family for it to matter to her. We've talked and talked and talked about the baby in Miss Melynie's tummy almost daily since early last summer. She even kept a family picture of them, where you could see Miss Melynie's tummy, on her nightstand! So she was ready for this moment with baby Morgan!!

There are six girls now between our families, and the older five sure had fun together!

I love this one from the back - too cute! Ryan and Brad took them all for walk after dinner. Brad's a Texan, and he smoked us up quite a BBQ feast for an early dinner.

Here we all are - exceeding the weight capacity for one couch! It was great to be able to see them even if only for a day. Next time, they won't have relatives visiting and we can claim the guest room.

Happy Easter! Ryan had sound at church this weekend, so the girls had to wait until about 1:30 to find their eggs. Well, actually, they both searched from the windows for quite a while before Daddy got home - cheaters!

We got invited to my mom's neighbor's house for their second annual hunt around the pond. It was a little chilly, but great fun. I think Lila won - she was on a mission to gather those eggs! Here they are with Aunt Becca.

"Do you want us to hunt eggs or ducks, because I probably go catch those two!"

We had Easter dinner at our house. My family came, as well as our neighbors, who were unable to get to PA for their extended family Easter. That's Emma's best buddy from school, Alexis at the kids table. Trudy wondered why she didn't have her own seat.

This is Lila's Easter perspective of me, Grammy, and Kim.

We had a great weekend of celebrating what God did for us through Jesus. By trying to constantly remind our children that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave and what that means for us, we were more focussed on the wonder of it ourselves.

"The rescue for sinners
The ransom from Heaven
Jesus Messiah
Lord of all"