easter.

as always,

we had easter at my parents house.

somehow when emily was a baby we just decided that we would do it there.

i'm guessing it's cause jack would be preaching

and they wouldn't be able to get away.

i don't know.

this year, jack didn't preach, though he has done some

preaching lately.

i hear it's not smoothe sailing by any means,

but he's made it happen.

yesterday's sermon was done by greg,

my stepbrother, justin and i's youth minister back in the day.

i love hearing greg preach,

so i was all for it.

he even mentioned the kids in his sermon.

he was talking about the people being

excited to see Jesus,

much like the excitement of our kids

that morning,

 running down the single isle of the sanctuary

yelling, "pop!!! gra!!!"

the kids had a good time in their class, as well,

and told us all about it afterwards.

as soon as everyone had left,

they ran to find pop and waited for him

so they could go down the ramp again with him.

it's just not a visit to gra and pop's unless you

get to have pop chase you around in his power chair.

greeting us at the house after church

was this face.

little aj is sportin' 2 teeth now.

he'd make crazy faces,

clearly teething ones,

that made him look like an old gummed man.

so cute.

porch swing time.

apparently it was too bright outside.

i have never seen him throw a fit the way he

did yesterday.

had to capture it.

mary anne missed it.

cousin emily had a great time playing with aj.

i didn't match my kids,

but i did buy the boys matching outfits.

they looked like little men in their polos and chinos.

the kids went on a walk after lunch with my mom.

of course emily fell and scraped her knee.

she started hunting eggs,

but her knee hurt a lot and she had to go potty.

i took her in to the bathroom to find out

her little knee was bleeding,

rocks had opened the skin and ripped her

new leggings.

ergh.

which is why she has no leggings on in the pic below.

that little aiden was the king of finding eggs.

emily looks for things like her dad...

if it's not in plain sight,

it doesn't exist.

very annoying.

aiden found the majority of the eggs.

we don't do easter baskets or candy for the kids.

they got candy on saturday and they have baskets

from their first easter's,

but it wasn't something we wanted to glue in their brains.

like santa, i don't want to get them so sucked in

to the thought of the easter bunny and have them

find out that he's not real, too.

easter is about the death and resurrection of Christ,

so that's what we focus on.

they got some m&m's,

which we call their 'spring candy' and i found some little

bubble whistles,

one dora and one diego, from target.

they're pretty messy, though.

aiden's funny to watch blowing his.

he looked like he had to go

to the bathroom bad or something.

usually we put something in the eggs...

candy, money, stickers...something.

we slacked off this year,

as did my mom.

oh, well.

my mom had some things to pass down to me this year..

way cool stuff.

a hand print i did in '86 that use to

hang in our house growing up.

a clutch purse that had belonged to my great

grandma, bessie atteberry.

she had receipts still in it from 1933

and had written,

"mrs. bessie atteberry

atoka, ok"

along with her phone number,

that was a few letters and 2 numbers.

so cool.

i also got my baby brush and some vhs tapes,

one being an anderson family reunion(my dad's side)

from 1988.

famie, i'm pretty sure your mullet is in that one!! :)