Easter Week

Happy Easter!  

 Coloring Easter Eggs is serious business.  

What a blessing to get to know our seminarians.  These godly young men are the future of our diocese and we love getting to spend time with them.  

"You mean I get to go to a Mass that starts 30 minutes after my bedtime?  No way!!!!!" 

Here we are, all ready to head out to the Easter Vigil Mass! 

A bonus picture of the baby, because…she's the baby, and those arms…do you see those arms?

We had a great Holy Week and Easter celebration.  That stress that I mentioned in my last post?  Still there, but I'm feeling at peace with it.  You see, our sweet Felicity has been undergoing many, many, many tests to see if there's a reason she gets so sick, so often.  We have a big appointment this coming Monday (please pray).  Some potentially scary stuff, but I am feeling much better about it.  I'm confident that God's got this.  

The ground is almost fully exposed.  I'm hesitant to even say it, but I think we have some grass!  This winter was killer.  

Many blessings to you all this Easter Season!  My Easter celebrating is going to have to end before the liturgical season does or I'm not going to be able to fit into the spring/summer clothes that I just pulled out of storage.  Let me assure you, I've celebrated plenty.  We have plenty to celebrate!  He is Risen!!!  Alleluia!!!!

Spring is Here!

Made ya look!  Spring isn't here silly.  It came for a couple of days, took one look at all the snow we have and went back south.  It stayed long enough to fool the chickens.  It must be a "bird thing" because we have a lot of birds at our feeder these days.  Unfortunately, the bird feeder is also attracting flying squirrels (ew, ew, ew) so it will need to come down.  We need to take it down anyway because the bears, or as people around here say, "the bear", are waking up and I have a feeling they will be hungrier and crankier than most years.

While we wait for spring to arrive (and stay or preferably turn into summer, but we won't hold our breath) we've been keeping plenty busy.  One word...cheeks!  Delicious.  Scrumptious.  Should be illegal to have cheeks that yummy!  Countless hours are spent loving all over this soft and squishy baby.

And since we are completely running out of things to do, we decided to chop some hair.  Actually, ever since Emma donated her hair last spring these two have been growing theirs out to do the same thing.

This week we are working hard to prepare our home and most importantly our hearts for Easter.  Lent isn't over yet, but will be soon.  Just like I was ready for Lent to begin (I can't believe that's the last post I wrote...I honestly was not giving up blogging for Lent), I'm ready for it to end.  We have a couple of stressful things going on right now (more later, I promise, I won't just leave it like that forever), and I'm clinging to the hope and the promise that comes with Easter.