I hope you all had wonderful weekends celebrating the resurrection of the Lord! Ours is different here, of course, and I do admit that Easter is the one time when I do long to go to a church with more of a liturgy and solemnity about the whole occasion. Easter Sunday, of course, is a time of celebration. And our church plant held celebration that day, although we couldn't have it outside due to rain. (It's been raining almost every other day here for the past 2 months....) We had a potluck brunch. The teen band played worship songs accompanied by some adults, and we heard the easter story, and then there was an egg hunt (in the W.I. gym!!) for the kids. Then our family came home and enjoyed some rest and a yummy roast beef dinner.
The day before, on Saturday, Elizabeth and I colored some eggs. Caleb didn't quite grasp the concept and had to go outside with Daddy to prevent the whole kitchen from being dyed. And the kids did get easter baskets with a little candy and a couple fun toys. So we had a good weekend. We're looking forward to a whole week (at least till Saturday) with no rain in the forecast. Maybe we can get some yard work done. Hmmm.... The picture of Caleb has him holding a chicken we call Big Mama. Some of the chickens have names ( Big Mama, Chirpy, Speedo and one Elizabeth calls Fly of Death) but some don't because we can't tell them apart!
We returned on Saturday from our week at the World Impact beach house in Oxnard, CA. It's always such a blessing to visit there, a whole big beautiful house to ourselves for a week with the beach just a couple blocks away! What a blessing it is. Although it was cold on the beach, as usual, the kids actually did get wet a couple of times and just enjoyed running and exploring on the beach daily. One day Luke took both of them out in the sea kayak for a very long ride. I was a little nervous about Caleb staying in the boat, but he did fine. I love to just sit on the beach and enjoy the waves and the smell of the ocean and the sunshine. We also got to go to Disneyland - I'll post another entry about that!
Today Elizabeth had her first T-ball game. We decided it's good for her to have new experiences. She is still very much the ballerina and loves her ballet classes, but she had a great time at her t-ball tame today too. She's playing with a church called People's Church and so all the kids have Pittsburgh Pirates hats, which Luke thinks is really cool. And her friend Aaron is on her team too. Caleb's too young to play, but he wishes he could! He's very much the ball-player, you can see him with his glove he got for his birthday. When Elizabeth went to buy a glove, she chose the pink and purple one. It was quite the thing to see the 4-5 year-olds try to play t-ball, but they did a pretty good job! They all hit the ball and Elizabeth fielded it a couple times and Luke got to help "coach". (He's not the coach, but they need parents' help!!) So it's fun. We're off now for our last pre-baby vacation to the W.I. beach house for a week. Yay!!
