Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone!

I know this was like over a week ago, but just getting around to posting now....busy busy! Well, we had a last minute change to our plans for the Easter weekend. Bill's cousin Travis came to spend the night with us on Wednesday, before his early morning flight out to Hawaii for their cousin Rick's wedding. Yep, you guessed it....at 11:15 p.m. Bill decides to buy a last minute ticket and leave the next morning with Travis for Hawaii! We found a great deal for a flight and car rental, did some laundry, packed a bag and they were off at the crack of dawn! Bill had an absolutely wonderful time with his cousins, eating, hiking, swimming, cliff diving, going to a luau and soaking up the Hawaiian sun!

Sawyer and I missed him a bunch! We met Bill's family at church on Sunday for the Easter service and then headed back to his parent's house for lunch! Aunt Terry came up from Lincoln for the day and Steve's Mom and Dad were also there.

Aunt Terry and Nana Kathy joining in the iconic 'Sawyer pose'.

Sawyer felt that he needed to go dig out his rain boots for the Easter egg hunt.....

Sawyer and Nana Kathy

Kathy had us all join in remembering the Easter story by doing some Christian Easter Eggs~each one had a little token representing a portion of the story (crown of thorns, linen cloth, wooden cross.....)

Then it was out to the back yard for the easter egg hunt! A few years ago Kathy started including gift cards and raffle tickets for prizes inside the eggs to make it more of an exciting hunt for the rest of us.

Papa Steve had a pile of dirt in the drive way from a recent project that of course Sawyer had to climb on! (Notice his shoe came off of his foot on his way up the dirt pile, but did that stop him? Never!)

When I noticed that Sawyer had found enough eggs that his basket was overflowing and he had moved on to storing the eggs in his hood, I decided this was the last year that I needed to leave eggs behind for him to find....he does just fine on his own! Greedy little thing..... :)

We had a great afternoon of fabulous food, wonderful company, gorgeous weather and the JOY that comes with the resurrection of our Lord!