It occurred to me this morning as I read my sister Becky's blog that I didn't take one photo on Easter Sunday. Oops. Well, here are a few from Saturday. I guess that will just have to do.
We had our friend Suzie's girls over a few days this past week while she worked and her mom is out of town. Friday I succumbed to the sinusy/scratchy-throat thing that seems to be going around our family. (David, me, Naomi, and now Joshua & Jesse have all been its victims. So far.)
Saturday I had Marissa take over the preparations for Easter dinner, which meant she was in charge of our younger three kids and Suzie's two. She did a great job, as you can see below.
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| Here's Marissa with Katrina and Naomi, explaining how to do the Jello eggs. This was the first year I didn't help at all with them... being sick, I just put Marissa in charge. They turned out great and the kids had a blast making them! :) |
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| Kaitlyn is such a sweet little girl. :) Here she is, taking her nap on Saturday afternoon. |
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| Matt ran a bunch of errands on Saturday with most of the kids. Here, Naomi looks for a book. We had a nice quiet reading time while Kaitlyn napped. :) |
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| The kids with their decorated hard-boiled eggs, which incidentally made *delicious* deviled eggs for our Easter dinner yesterday! :) |
Yesterday, David & Marissa were in a drama that the teen group put on, Marissa being the main character. She did a great job, and I was so proud of her. :) Both David & Marissa and I were in the choir. Matt was supposed to be, too, but Naomi was sick, so he stayed home with her.
Marissa and I did our first duet together! She has a very nice singing voice, I really enjoyed singing with her, and I look forward to more duets together. :) We sang "Lamb of God", by Twila Paris, and it went pretty well, despite my having the sinusy thing going on. My voice gave way at the second-to-last measure of the song, and I guess from a couple friends' remarks afterwards that the look on my face was quite hilarious. Sort of like, "Really? Now?" I hadn't realized I had made a face. Oops.
So I hope you had a good Resurrection Day yesterday. I find words somewhat inadequate in trying to describe the meaning of the day. Let's just suffice it to say that I am SO thankful God came to earth in human form and that He died on the cross for my sin! Thank you, Jesus. :)
4 comments:
I always bring my camera with me pretty much everywhere! I actually took our Easter pictures on Good Friday which made Easter Sunday a LOT less hectic! Glad you were able to sing even with the yuckies!
Well, I did have the camera at church and took a video of the teen group drama and attempted to get someone to video our duet.
But I forgot to line everybody up and take our photo... probably because we were running late for getting to church early for practice! What a good idea to do the photo on Friday! :)
Yeah, we always seem to have so much going before church so when I had the sewing done early for once, I opted for getting it out of the way :) I suppose you could always have everyone put on what they had on and stage a picture!
It's easy for little things to get lost in the shuffle. At least one year I forgot to get a picture of the kids in front of the Christmas tree. So, I staged one later, like Becky suggested. A few days late is better than missing out on it all-together. :)
Rachel
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