Easter



Easter bread from the local bakery.




I love our family dynamics. It seems that every major holiday now, we spend with Gary and Annette, at THEIR house, eating THEIR food and enjoying THEIR hospitality.  Hey, it works for me. Luckily, it works for them too and we truly do enjoy and cherish each other's company...

Cutest cake EVER! The missing teeth were my fault.

Sammi had a LOT of catching up to do with Grampa. She was on his lap 90% of the time.

Easter this year was an attempt to downplay the whole bunny thing and focus more on the story of the Resurrection story. Each child got an Easter basket, and there was the chocolate bunny and Peep or two, but there was also a new Bible or daily devotional for each child, oh and a bike or new pair of skates.  You know, church stuff.

Unfortunately that was the extent of my picture taking that day, but what you don't see is everyone in their new Easter duds (thank you Nana and Poppy).  You also don't see all FOUR of them at the front of the church filling out all of the acolyting positions that Sunday. Even Jeff and I had jobs as lector and usher! Grandpa's job was to keep our spot in the pew and, of course, be Sammi's personal lap provider and captive audience throughout the entire service.

I was so proud of my family. The WHOLE family. I believe that they actually got the meaning of Easter this year and there was very little grumping about not having an egg hunt, though there was candy enough to distract them, even without one. The Bibles and devotionals are in daily use still and intelligent questions are being asked and conversations regarding Bible stories are being held. I remarked Mac, after reading about the Abraham, how amazing it was that he was so old when he died. He replied, "no, not so much, God had a lot for him to do."  Sigh, schooled again.