Easter!

We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter this year with our family and friends!  Mom and Vern came into town on Thursday night.  We had a couple of relaxing days to hang out with them... and then there was Sunday! 

We went to the 9:00 service at church and it was beautiful.  The sermon was a reminder that "He still appears today..."  The thought reminded me of the book that I am reading and seeing God in our lives every day.  At the end of the service, the choir/orchestra did the Hallelujah chorus.  Mark leaned over and whispered that it was his Mom's favorite song.  Since she has been in the hosptial for several days we called her during the song so that she could hear it and have a little bit of Easter celebration too. 

After church we came home and prepared for our guests.  We had 14 adults and 3 little ones over for lunch and fun times!  Mark and Vern set up tables and tents outside and we enjoyed a beautiful day! 

Everyone brought goodies to share for a yummy lunch together.  Of course, the only food picture I got was cupcakes.

After lunch we had an Easter egg hunt for these 3 sweet girls. 

I love all the commotion surrounding the egg hunt - parents, grandparents and cameras everywhere! 

We then put the girls down for naps and the adults had some fun with eggs!  First up, the ancient art of egg tapping. :-) You tap the other persons egg and see if you can get theirs to break without breaking your own.  The game didn't last long but it was fun.

Next was the infamous egg toss.

I think the guys had the most fun when they had free reign with the eggs though!  They ended up tossing the eggs OVER the entire house and trying to catch them on the other side.  I think we had one catch at the end of the day.  The rest of it looked like the picture below...

This picture includes most but not all of our friends and family that came to hang out.  We are truly blessed to have such sweet, fun friends.  :-)

After all of our Easter fun, we went to The Garden, a shelter for women and children and served dinner to them.  It was a sweet end to a day of celebration.  When we finally arrived back home, I thought I would have a mess of dishes to clean up but Lindsay and Brad came over the house was spotless!!  Yipee!