Happy Easter

Happy Easter family and Friends!!

I am still in shock that it's already the end of April and we are celebrating Easter - This year is just flying by.

It was not a very "pretty" Easter Sunday in Indy this year. It was rainy and cloudy all day. BUT we made the best of it! The boys and I headed to later 10:30 church service. John had a great time in childrens church and William had fun in his classroom. When I picked them up after the church services they both were excited to show me the crosses they had made and could tell me why we celebrated Easter...I was so proud of them and so thankful they are in the process of really learning about what Jesus resurrection really means for them. I had the opportunity to hear a great message from Pastor John on "Baggage" and how because Jesus died for us .... we can give him all of our baggage. It really hit home and reminded me to put all of my worries, fears, anxieties, good stuff and bad stuff on Jesus and he will carry me and YOU. Very powerful message! I was so glad that my friend Amy and her Husband to be were able to join me at church today too...

After the church services we headed home along with Amy, Andy and their son Dylan, we planned on spending the day together. We were completely surprised though when we got home and found an awesome surprise in the garage. The Easter bunny (my wonderful MIL) had got Andy, myself and the boys NEW bikes!! She really tricked us, because Andy and I knew the boys were getting new bikes, she found them in December and we had been hiding them for 4 months, but she completely surprised us and got Andy and I bikes too!! She totally orchestrated this awesome plan to get them home from the bike store then hiding them from us!! Let's just say I hadn't been that surprised in a really long time...It was awesome and we are both are SO thankful. The rain was so icky yesterday we only had a few minutes here in there between "rains" to test out the bikes. The boys can't wait to go on a family bike ride!! And neither can we! I am excited to be able to go biking with Andy after the boys go to sleep. So Excited!

After all bike excitement, we decided to do our egg hunt. It was super wet outside and still rainy, so we had to be creative....we had our egg hunt inside! We used the front living room and the basement and it really worked out just fine. I kinda got a little crazy and we had 102 eggs to find, so it was fun watching all the boys. Dylan (Amy & Andy's son) is only 17 months old, so he wasn't as excited as the big boys, but John and William made sure to help fill up Dylan's basket since theirs was over flowing! It was super cute. The rest of the day included lots of eating, a walk with us girls and the kids, lots of Wii playing and a great supper. We were all exhuasted by days end. But it was a GREAT Easter!!