Easter

The kids woke early and scrambled downstairs to take a peek at their baskets. Clara was excited to find Sesame Street characters amongst her candy. She loves Elmo and calls him something that sounds like "apple" and of course all the other characters are Elmo, too. Laken was very elated to find a princess pool. The girl could live in water. She loves bath and wants to swim in 60 degree weather. My friend Susan says it is because she is Pisces and their element is water (Susan is a Pisces, too). Braeden was just hoping for chocolate, but also found hockey shoulder pads and Preston found Star Wars legos. Then, we had the traditional egg hunt. Preston found the "Mike" egg.

Next, it was off to church. As with any holiday church service we found the sanctuary packed and found ourselves downstairs watching via the video feed. Hence, the need for the building project that is beginning. The kids received play dough at the children's message and Clara was elated to not have the confines of the pew. I lost a bet to my fam as I was sure the scripture reading would be John 20, Where Jesus asks Mary why she is crying and Mary turns and says "Rabboni, which means teacher." My husband and children 1st of all didn't believe that such a scripture existed and secondly thought no way would it be read. The were right on one account much to my dismay.


After church we headed to Nama and Grandpa's to hang with the cousins and eat Easter Dinner.









Then it was the traditional Easter egg hunt. Clara got to participate on her own for the 1st time.







Followed up by a mean baseball game. The boys almost beat Eric and Brad and even my Granny got a solid base hit. We hung outside in the spring weather for the entire day.