Easter This Year

This Easter was really different in a lot of ways... the same in others. We always stick with traditions but try really hard to keep ourselves and the kiddos focused on the meaning. Randy had his sinus surgery on the Thursday before and that side tracked us in a lot of ways. He left to stay at his parents the night before the surgery. The center was close to their house so they were able to take him and pick him up easier than I who had to get the girls to school and do Ava's Easter party that day. We also thought it would be easier for him to recover away from the three kids that would want to climb and wrestle as usual, not understanding what was going on. It ended up that Bella got sick in the middle of the night after he left. She threw up every hour or so into the morning so she was not able to go to school. My mom was able to take Ava to school so Bella wouldn't have to ride in the van and took the Easter goodies for her class. Luckily Bella was better by the next day and Randy's surgery went well. Friday Porter's schedule had been off and I didn't have it in me to get everybody ready by myself for the Service of Darkness that night but Randy was able to go thanks to his mom.

We went ahead to my aunt's on Saturday where we always have lunch and an Easter egg hunt. Bella was so excited and had been counting down the days. My cousin's husband is being deployed for 11 months to Kosovo so we had some of his favorite foods, prayed for him and said our goodbyes.

Randy came home later that night so we could all go to church together the next day. So Sunday we had church and then my family came over for lunch and we had another egg hunt. We rested some and then headed to Randy's brother's for dinner. The kids always have a blast and this time spent a lot of time outside on the trampolene.