The Sunniest Easter EVER!

There is nothing like Easter morning! I love going to church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection! The music is even better than Christmas… everyone sings Easter music with gusto!

But before we go to church there is the opening of Easter baskets and the finding of eggs…

I made my own Peep-kebobs

 

The sunny weather meant we got to have our church Easter egg hunt outside!

Sunshine-y weather also makes for yet another gorgeous Easter cross!

   

I am quite certain that this is the nicest Easter we’ve ever had! The sun was shining and it was 78 degrees! It felt more like the 4th of July than Easter…

Amy, Greg and the kids 

everyone helped the boys find their eggs this year

 

Stella the fairy godmother and Zack got married after she was done giving us all new bodies… Bippity Boppity Boo!

We missed not having Frank, Amy and the girls there this year… Poor Elsie got the stomach flu. :o(   But don’t they look cute???

Egg Day

Today was probably the most gorgeous Egg Day we’ve had EVER! It was sunny and 75!!! We spent most of the day out doing yard work for the first time in 2013…

But I also managed to make an extra-large egg bake for church in the morning:

I also made lots of Jello eggs but I didn’t bother with a picture. They always look pretty much the same…

I am so glad to have pretty little brown eggs to decorate again this year! I just love the way they turn out!

I only did a dozen this year. The boys are sadly outgrowing the joys of coloring Easter eggs… But they did have fun with them!

See! They turned out pretty great!

I love Egg Day!

I also decided that Egg Day needed its own dessert. So I whipped up a batch of coconut filled cupcakes after supper…

Happy Egg Day!!!    

Family Flashback- Newsboys Video Stars

Our friend, Laura, posted this video on Facebook on a trip she was taking down Memory Lane. When we were her youth leaders in Portland, we took some of the kids and our two boys to the Christian Supply store to be in this music video…

Watch for our group at 4:22. They jammed us all in this room, the guys came in, taught us the dance, they filmed us doing the dance, then we all waited in line so they could sign autographs for everyone there! We waited for almost three hours and there were only about 10 people behind us in line. Andy fell asleep on Chris’ back…

Unlike when we went to see Amy Grant and Michael W Smith, there were no bodyguards shoving us through the line, telling us not to talk to them. Even after 3 hours of signing, they were still excited to see us. Peter wrote a personal message to Zack on his video cover and posed for a picture…

When Andy got to Duncan (the drummer) and told him that Andy wanted to be him when he grew up. Duncan stopped the whole line and told the rest of the guys that “this kid wants to be ME when he grows up!” Needless to say, this made the rest of the band laugh! (notice Jody Davis pointing at Andy and smiling…) But Andy did grow up to be a drummer…

I met Duncan again two years ago while working in the admin office at Creation Fest. I told him the story of Andy meeting him, wanting to be just like him when he grew up and that he did, in fact, become a drummer in our church worship band. Then, breaking every single rule, Duncan signed an autograph for me to give to Andy! Yeah, it was worth getting in trouble for, although I had no idea it was against the rules when I did it…

Needless to say, the Newsboys are still one of this momma’s favorite bands ever!

Sauvie Island Lighthouse

Chris had the week off last week and we didn’t get to do one fun thing with just the 5 of us… Grading papers and cleaning out the garage don’t really count as fun. Going out with friends was fun but the boys didn’t get to go. The birthday party was super fun but we really wanted to do something as a family.

When we woke up on Sunday morning, the sun was shining and we decided to go and enjoy the glorious day out of doors!

But where to go??? When you don’t know what to do you just ask Google… A lighthouse on Sauvie Island??? We had no idea there was even one there just a mere 3.5 mile hike out to the point.

So we went and checked it out. Not the most scenic or exciting hike we’ve ever been on but it was pretty and the day was so nice for early March!

The trail started out on the beach… thankfully, not the “clothing optional” beach! I don’t know if we’ll be coming again in the summer??? ;o)

 

The lighthouse is WAY out there on the point!

There was some interesting stuff on the beach to see

Then the trail headed off into the trees… and mud!

The boys ran ahead most of the time. But at one point we were confronted by 3 Knights Who Say “Ni”. They are so silly!

Then we made it to the actual lighthouse and what was probably the caretaker’s house…

William said it was the whimpiest lighthouse he’d ever seen.

The caretaker’s house was kind of neat. I wonder what it looked like when it was new???

  William got some shots while we were out but I haven’t gotten to see them yet…

Hiking 7 miles makes one hungry! So we stopped at this great little restaurant in St Helens, The Klondike. It was so good! We’ll be going there again soon!!!