Easter 2011

Well, I am a little behind for this journal entry.  It seems like I am way more tired and sick than I was with Josiah and Sophie.  Maybe it is because I have two little ones I'm chasing after, and I can't go curl up in the bed like I did with Josiah.  Each time I'm spending time with John, I try to remember having morning sickness is a good thing--that means the baby is growing and doing what it needs to do.  For some reason, it doesn't make me feel a whole lot better though.  Chris has been SUPER...like always.  When he gets home in the afternoon, he takes over.  The last couple of days, cooking has been a little hard.  I have had a hard time with food cooking, so I try to go to our bedroom away from the smells.

Here I am on a rabbit trail...my whole point was to write about Easter 2011...must be having a pregnancy moment.    

We got up Easter morning and the kids did a little Easter egg hunt inside--it was kind of yucky outside.  Then they looked inside of their Easter basket.  We are the practical parents and got them new pajamas and some books.  I'm not a big fill the basket with candy kind of mom, so they get books and clothes.  After eating some cinnamon rolls for breakfast, we got all cleaned up to head to church.

This was the first Easter since we have moved to VA that Chris and I were in the service.  The last couple of years, we have been serving in the nursery.  It was so nice to sit through an Easter service.  Something that was even nicer was to be able to ride in the same car to and from church!  The Greenwood family got all decked out--take a look at our Easter picture in the April 2011 album.  The family amused me by color coordinating our clothes.  I figure it won't last too long, so I might as well do it while the little ones don't have much voice!    After church, we went and got some lunch.  I was craving a sandwich and since I can't eat deli-meat, we headed to Subway so I could get a chicken sandwich.  When we finished lunch, we headed home and took a nap.  That afternoon, we had some friends from our Home Fellowship Group come over.  They were ones who don't have family in the area, so we thought it would be nice for us all to hang out.  Each family shared in the cooking, so that was a huge weight off my shoulders.   We had a good time of fellowship and had LOTS of good food to eat.  

 This year we continued the tradition of doing the Resurrection eggs.  Josiah definitely absorbed a lot of what was going on...Chris will be writing a separate journal entry on a conversation they had.  Sophie enjoyed looking at all the things in the eggs and telling us about them in her special language.   

 As you can see, we had a pretty good Easter celebrating our Risen Savior!