Easter 2010

April 18, 2010

I hope everyone had a great Easter celebration!! We had a great day. Very, very busy, but great. I got up early, sang at the 6:30 am service, ran home, helped get kids ready, saw what the Easter bunny got them, ran back to church with the family, had breakfast there, sang in the 10:00 am service, ran home, changed clothes, got to my grandma & grandpas for lunch, did an egg hunt there, at around 4:30 we ran to Lincoln's parents for dinner (if we were hungry), hung out there a little bit and finally got back home by about 7:30ish. Whew. What a day! It was awesome though. Next year, however, I think I am going to skip out on the choir for the 6:30 am service. I miss getting to watch the kids look for their baskets and I love seeing their faces when they are surprised. We shall see. :)

Here is a photo of my Easter kiddos. Luke was so excited to be wearing a tie! :) Grandma Chris made Ashlyn's dress this year...sooooo cute! Chloe's dress was actually one that I bought 2 years ago for Ashlyn, but then Chris made dresses so it never got worn.


We are loving the spring-like weather. I do, however, like that it is still a little cool out. I don't need it to be hot yet. :) It is a little hard to believe that it is only April with the weather. There are farmers out planting already. I am so excited for the early season, but sooooo hoping for their sake that it doesn't backfire on them. So, here's to hoping we don't get any freezing weather anymore until after harvest.
You can tell that spring is here as the kids are kicking off the spring program season this week. Luke has a concert on Tuesday, Ashlyn has a small performance at the nursing home for dance on Friday. The spring field trips have started and there will be more performances for dance and school soon. Wow. And once school is out I will officially have a 3rd grader and a 1st graders. 2 kids in school full-time. I also will have another child eligible for 3-year old preschool, but we are going to wait until she is 4. Speaking of Chloe....she is going to be 3...in less than a month. So exciting and so sad all at the same time.

I better close this and get some stuff done before bed. Another Monday tomorrow.

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Can't Help It...

March 29, 2010

I couldn't help it. I had to watch this movie. I recorded the 11 pm show, but I started watching it and couldn't stop to go to bed. Stupid probably. It was a great showing on the Amish message of forgiveness....not so good on the media story about the Amish school shooting...not that I was looking for details or anything because that shooting was unforgivable...for us. The Amish...that is what they do. I admire that and wish it came more easily to us. I kind of think forgiveness is easy, but at that same point...no one has ever done anything unforgivable to me directly.

How's this post for a random ramble? :)

We spent the day yesterday in West Salem, WI...coincidentally on the way there we saw an Amish buggy by Rushford, MN. Hmmm. You know, I guess the Amish only have church every other week and they hold it at each other's houses. I wonder if they were going to their church service yesterday. I also wonder if they were, then were they celebrating Easter?

Anyway...as I was saying...we went to West Salem to celebrate the first birthday of our godson, Graham. He actually turns 1 on Wednesday. It was a fun and beautiful day. I love this family I married into. The kids had a blast, the food was great and it's always laughs when we are with Lincoln's family. Lincoln took pictures on his phone...I have to figure out how to get them onto the computer now. Those will probably come after Easter though as this Holy Week will be busy, busy.

Tuesday, as part of the Christian Education board and committee I am going to be helping prepare for the Seder Meal that will take place on Wednesday for our 5th graders and their families in preparation for their first communion that they will take during the Maundy Thursday service. Seder Meal is kinda like the last supper. It looks weird, but is is actually all soooo good. (Lamb, by-the-way, smells horrid while being prepared for this particular dinner...not sure if it just because of this particular prep or if lamb smells like that all the time).

Wednesday evening I will, as part of that same Christian Ed board, be helping serve the meal and I am hoping that I will have some help. Thursday is the Maundy Thursday service and the choir sings...and the 5th graders as I said take their first communion. Good Friday service....then Saturday is like a day of rest for me...I hope, because then there is Easter. I have 4 bulletins to get prepared and copied at church this week along with being gone every night but 1 this week. 1 night this week...tonight...that I will be home. 1 night. Ugh. Not that I don't enjoy church and stuff, but 1 night. I welcome the Easter season and the meaning of Easter is kind of hard not to love...and I love hanging out with family, but every Easter I am just so exhausted I don't have the social capabilities in me. How do our Pastor's do it I wonder. Seriously. (and with the post-Easter week...well, let's just say Holy Week makes it hard to want to go back to the church on Monday and start working again...at least it will be a quiet week, hopefully...) I love Spring Garden. :)

Enough rambling for now. I gotta get the girls ready to go to the farm for breakfast and payroll. I'll post some pictures probably after Easter seeing as I won't be around much this week. Maybe. With Easter brings back face book for me...I may be busy for a couple days. HA! After 40 days, most people probably forgot about me anyway. Ha-ha!

Happy Easter everyone! He is risen! He is risen indeed!

March 2010

March 25, 2010

9 more days until Easter. Which means I will be hanging out on facebook again that evening. Ha-ha. I'm pathetic. I miss conversing with people.

I can't believe that March is just about over. This winter has actually flown by for me. It was a good winter. It wasn't over-powered with days and days of -20's and we got a TON of snow...now this was a Minnesota winter. And all that snow was gone in 2 weeks. I think we still had 4 feet in the front yard and it is completely gone now. And our 8-12 foot piles of snow are finally completely gone. Now we just have to rake the gravel back onto the driveway....our very long driveway. The best part...knock on wood...is that we didn't get teased with nice weather and then have it snow 3 inches after we saw 60's. Luke's birthday was even decent this year...usually we are worrying about snow and ice. Hopefully, spring will stay.

With March and Spring comes March Madness. I am pretty sure you all know what that means in this house. (Does anyone read this blog even?) It's all about the basketball. :) And all the upsets this year are killing everyone's brackets. Oh-well.

We are preparing for the inconvenience of road construction this summer. Our county road will be ripped up this summer and left to be gravel for the winter. They are widening the road and redirecting parts of it. Then next spring they will finish fixing it and tar it. I am excited for the end result, but man is it going to be a pain. We'll deal though...what else can we do? Hopefully they aren't at the height of the mess when my sister-in-law, Bonnie, is ready to go have her baby. By-the-way, Bonnie, I am secretly hoping that you go into labor at a really odd time at night so maybe I get to take Sophie while you go and then I'll know you went which mean I hope you go early because I will be out-of-town that weekend :) )

Chloe started dance class last week. She is in there with her cousin, Sophie, and a couple other little girls we know. She LOVES it as does her cousin. It's really cute. She wears some old stuff of Ashlyn's and talks about dance all day long before she goes. Lincoln doesn't mind that his girls are dancing, but he hopes that they grow out of that and into other sports like...Basketball of course, or volleyball or whatever else...anything but dance. :) Summer sports forms are starting to come home from school. Ashlyn says she wants to do soccer again. I am not so sure. Last year wasn't convincing to me...I am thinking we should stick to one sport. T-ball. We shall see.

We received a form in the mail from the school for Chloe to go to the 3-year old preschool class next year. WHAT? How can she be ready for that already? She is though. I don't know if I want to pay for her to go to preschool for 2 years. I may wait and have her just go when she's 4. I don't know yet. She is totally ready though. I just can't believe that she is about to turn 3. I better get started on losing that baby weight. HA!

No pictures this time....I haven't taken any really. Oops.

Happy Easter, everyone!

Taga

March 21, 2010

I think that these would be fun.

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8 Years ago...

March 6, 2010

8 years ago, tomorrow, my first born was born. I can't believe it. It isn't like turning 8 is a milestone age, but he's my child and I guess I think every year is a milestone.

Looking back...

The announcement we sent out.

I rememeber this day very well. We used to go home for lunch everyday from the farm (we were in Kansas at the time) and on this afternoon, both boys ate and then laid on the floor. Luke was in the bean bag chair and Lincoln laid next to him and they both dozed off.


July of 2002. Luke was 4 1/2 months old. Look at that kid. :)

I am so proud of what he has become in the last 8 years. So proud to me his mom! Happy birthday, "Little Man!"

What to do, what to do...

February 26, 2010

This is what I wonder now that I gave up facebook for Lent. It's been going okay...but it is hard when you get rid of one of your main forms of communication with everyone you know. It's sad really in a way...and I feel so out of the loop now. And it is really sad that I live right across the road from my sister-in-law and I don't talk to her now...cuz I am not on facebook. Ha-ha.

You would think that I would be getting a lot of other things done. For instance, re-decorating the upstairs bathroom or spending hours in the basement looking at it trying to figure out how to decorate it (if you wanna come help me figure it out...come on over, please). I could also be reorganizing the office or figuring out where to park all my scrap booking stuff so I can get back into doing that since I am about 3 years behind...even more actually because Ashlyn's is way behind. But instead of doing all this stuff that I want to get done I am spending the time doing something way more fun...playing games with the kids, helping them do projects, laying on the floor with Ashlyn playing light-bright, sitting at a table putting Lego's together with Luke, doing puzzles with the girls...watching Olympics with Lincoln. Not that I didn't spend time with my family before because we did do stuff...just not as often as we do now and watching TV with Lincoln consisted of me watching it over the screen on the laptop. It's been fun!

On a different subject, sort of, I think I made a pretty big decision last night as I was wondering around Joanne Fabrics with my awesomely talented best friend, Amy, last night. I think I may have decided that I want to learn how to sew so I can quilt. Yep...QUILT. I said it. I also said the word sew. (I just shook a little). I have no clue what to do, but I love looking at all the fun fabric and I was looking through books and saw a ton of fun things.....ugh. I have no patience to learn it...I want to just know it. Well, hopefully I can watch Amy and learn a little. So, if you or someone you know have some extra quilting cutter things and mats and stuff that I could buy at a nice price...let me know.

Luke turns 8 next weekend. I may have touched on this before in the last post, but the child had 18 boys on his list of kids to invite. 18!!!!!!!! I let him pick 10. One can't come already so we are down to 9 plus Luke...so 10 total. that is a lot of boys in my house. Weather calls for 35 out that day though...so, I may have to have them start a basketball game outside. 5 on 5? Perfect. :)

The family is coming over the next day to celebrate. Oh, I can probably talk to my sister-in-law then. Ha-ha. I need to start planning the menu, I guess. 8. I can't believe it.