Sigh...It's always hard to come back to work after a holiday, isn't it? Especially a fun one where you get to be outside and with your crazy family!

We had a good Easter. Saturday we had the children's Easter party at church...actually, it was at Julia's house. But she read them the Easter story and asked them questions afterward to see if they understood. Then they played an egg relay race and had an Easter egg hunt. It was so cute. They had fun. And we saw that 6 years olds can be very competitive when it comes to finding eggs. :)

Saturday evening we dyed our Easter eggs. The kids loved that. I boiled a dozen thinking that would be enough, but they had them done in a matter of minutes! They were so into it, pausing only to fight over the one sheet of stickers that came with the box. I started dipping the egg in with my hand to get one half of an egg one color and the other half another color and subsequently dyed my fingertips and fingernails. It looked very cute in church the next day! haha

Ta da! Some of our lovely handiwork

Sunday was church day. We ended up having a lot of guests at church! I was proud that my family filled up almost two pews! My mom and Chuck, Kim, Jerry, Becca and Leia, and Katy and Zora all came. Seth and Lily were oh so cute in their Easter attire. Actually, we had to run to Walmart at 9:00 the night before because we realized Seth's dress pants didn't fit him (he usually wears jeans or khaki-type pants), so with that crisis averted, he was a sharp-dressed man on Easter morning. Here's Mr. Trump, now, at a business meeting:

You're fired!

Lol isn't that adorable? Jessie took that picture and said he was at a business meeting. While I was helping him get dressed, I kept calling him Mistah Trump and told him I was his personal assisstant. I couldn't tell if he thought it was funny or if he just wished I'd shut up and straighten his clip-on tie. haha He was so cute though!

And Princess Lily:

I wish that was a better picture! You can't see her dress, but she looked very pretty, take my word for it. She was twirling in her dress...it doesn't take much to make her feel beautiful!

We went to church and the choir sang the Easter Cantata...while poor Becca and Leia suffered through it. I heard from Jessie after church that they were writing notes during church and one of them wrote "This is torturous" and the other one wrote, "Oh well, at least we look pretty" When he told me that after church I was SO MAD, I thought I was going to beat them. I glared at Becca when we arrived to the picnic area and she looked startled and asked why I was looking at her that way. I said, "I'm sorry the singing was SO torturous for you, but at least you looked pretty!" She said, "Oh it wasn't YOUR singing, it was blah blah blah..." Anyway, she's lucky I AM a Christian...I forgave her....but made her promise to please be respectful in church and act like a decent human being (they were also rude to people who shook their hands, I was told)...TEENAGERS!!!!

One flight of the many treacherous flights of stairs on the nature trail...if you look closely you can see my fit mother gliding up them effortlessly...haha!

Other than that, the day was great. Jessie and Jerry grilled hamburgers...delicious. We walked down the nature trail...twice!!...and my legs actually didn't wobble like jello when we were done! Its amazing how your muscles can get used to things so quickly...the nature trail ends on a pier overlooking the water. It was beautiful. The whole day was gorgeous, a little chilly, but gorgeous. Seth and Lily hunted Easter eggs, then wanted to hide them for us. So Kim and I were going to hunt them. haha Someone asked me what we were doing and I said, "Me and Egg are going to hunt..." HAHA I called Kim "Egg!" I guess if I'd finished the sentence I would've said, "Me and Egg are going to hunt Kims!" heehee

So here we are...the Monday after the holiday. The kids are still off school, but the Moms and Dads are back at work. Doesn't seem fair, does it? I hope everyone had a great Easter. :)