More Easter Pictures

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WONDERFUL MOM TODAY! (I won't reveal her age-but its somewhere above 40! :) Thanks for being a wonderful, supportive, loving mom! I wouldn't be able to make it in this world without you!

Happy Easter!- I know its taken me a week to get these posted. Better late than never. We had a great Easter day-celebrating our risen Lord. Church was awesome! We have begun to go to double services from Easter until Mother's Day. A 9:30 and an 11:00 service. It is always very nerve racking to do this. Double the people to work in the nursery and back in Children's worship. We got it taken care of. Overall everything went great, and the total for both services was around 170! Probably about 15 of those were people that had to stay for both services so our total would have been 155 or so. We thought that was great! In the first pic in the second row you can see that Jeff has collapsed on the couch after lunch, people don't realize, including Haley-who jumped on top of him to eat her Easter candy, how much work a pastor does, in preparation for and on the actual day of any normal service, let alone double services on Easter.

After the service Jeff and Jenna went up to the airport to pick up my parents, they were flying back from San Antonio where they had been all week. Their plane was late etc. so we didn't eat Easter lunch until about 3:00. My parents stayed for awhile after lunch, in the very middle picture you can see all the girls piled around my mom and Jenna as Jenna works on her new paint by number.
She loves those things!

After a quick nap, we went up to the hospital to visit some friends that had a new baby girl the Friday before. We took their new little baby, Sariah, her first Easter basket. It was then time to go home and collapse after a busy busy weekend!

This morning I was up at 6:30-on a Saturday!!! Jenna pulled her first all nighter last night. The Middle School lock-in was last night. I was on the planning committee but I told them I'll plan,plan, plan but I am NOT spending the night! Jenna woke up Friday morning at precisely 6:15 because she wanted to stay up for exactly 24 hours, and 6:15 this morning was when everyone had to get packed up and get ready to go from the lock-in. I went and picked her up this am and she said she did it! Her first all-nighter! Oh to be young again!

I haven't included any pictures of the house lately because it doesn't look any different. For the last 2 weeks they have been working on the heating, plumbing, and all the wiring. All the boring work where you don't see much progress. They will be done on Monday with all that, the inspector will come on Tuesday, they will probably have to change a few things on Wed. and then they will start dry-walling Wed. afternoon or so. That should take them about a week to dry wall. Today we have to go and pick out the floor tile. We picked out the hard wood floors- THAT was a tough decision. After the tile, next is the carpet and the lighting. We have most of the paint colors picked out. Jeff's dad and brother are coming the second week in April to paint the whole house so we have our colors finalized and bought by then. To sum up this whole building process in 5 words: A pain in the butt! As of right now I wouldn't do it again. We'll see how I feel after we are moved in and are actually able to enjoy all our work. It truly is AT LEAST a part time job! Most of that has fallen to Jeff, which has added soooo much stress to his already stressful life. We are hoping that this last month and a 1/2 of the process goes smoother than the first 5 months or so. Normally it takes about 3 months to build a house, but with all the problems we had with our land-remember the dump underneath our back yard!- and also the TERRIBLE weather we have had- oh by the way, we had another inch of snow yesterday morning on the ground when we woke up- this building process has lasted WAY TOO LONG!

I hope you all have a great Saturday!