Easter!

We had a full Easter weekend! I know it's more than a month after the fact, but I wanted to share some family photos.

In order to worship as a family, we went to the sunrise service at my parents' church (Grace Baptist); the 9 a.m. worship service at our church (The Harbor); and then they went to Grace's 10:30 service while Sean, the kids & I had a potluck/egg hunt for the kids at our church. Then we all rendezvous'd at Mom and Dad's house for an Easter meal-- YUM! Lamb, salad, homemade wheat rolls, roasted sweet potatoes, I can't even remember all the yummy foods we had. My mom makes so many delicious veggies and whole-wheat, from-scratch bready things. I am sooo spoiled. :) We have really been enjoying her "experimenting" with new flours like spelt, an "ancient grain" of sorts that is very much like flour, but with a delicious sweet/nutty flavor. I really love the flavor of spelt biscuits. Okay, enough about the food...

The sunrise service was really neat. We were outside in a covered portico of the church, and there was some singing, and a message by Pastor Greg. I must admit we all (mostly Caleb) were distracted by a snail crawling along the ground in front of us, especially as it made its way up Sean's coffee thermos! Caleb brought up the service out of the blue a few days later-- "Orange man talk to us about Jesus?" He says a lot of "_____ man" type things (wrong-way man [doing a u-turn], pink [shirt] mommy, etc.). It was cute, because Pastor Greg had been wearing an orange dress shirt that day. Caleb is soaking in things!

frilly family photo! Chloe is smiling at her brother

My grandparents came up from Redlands for Easter weekend. It was so good to see them. They delight in their great-grandbabies. I have NEVER seen my grandpa get so excited and goo-goo over anything/anyone else like he does his great-grandchildren. :) Pretty special.

Legos in the living room

Chloe's second outfit of the day... we improvised after some spit-up on her  Easter dress
(which used to be MY Easter dress when I was a tiny little girl)

our good buddy Cameron came over for the meal

Cameron is a long-time friend of ours; we all met around the same time while he and Sean were both going through training here at Vandenberg in Spring '09. He was stationed in Colorado Springs with us for 2009-2012; and now he is here in the same squadron as Sean yet again. We are soooo thankful to have such a good friend here... someone with whom you have lots of shared history and memories and jokes. 

The three of us did a 10k race last summer when I was about 10 weeks pregnant with Chloe. (We basically coerced Cam to do it with us, heehee.) I had been feeling sick for several weeks before the race, and had not been working out, but we still did it. Let me also say this... It was in Colorado (high altitude)... and the first four miles were uphill. Boom. Even if I had been in shape, it would have been challenging. I walked a fair amount of it. And the guys stayed with me for a majority of it. :) They did go ahead at one point, made it to the turn-around point, and when I met them coming the other way, they did the rest with me. That meant so much to me. I was pretty bummed that I was so slow. I think it took us 90 minutes and we were THE last people to cross the finish line. (Don't tear down the finish line yet, guys! Guys? Hey, guys! We're coming!!) But oh well. It was still a really fun experience AND we got T shirts just like everyone else!! 

So that was our Easter this year! It seemed pretty hectic in the morning, but we had a relaxing afternoon and were able to think about what Jesus did for us on the cross so long ago.

He is risen!! He is risen indeed.