Easter 2013

We had a wonderful and busy Easter weekend.  We started off on Friday night hosting Secret Church at our house for the college class we help teach.  This is a full night of teaching on a particular topic for 6 hours that would be similar to what people have to do that are Christians in persecuted areas - they have to meet in secret, usually at night, and digest as much of the Word as they can at one time.  The pastor of a large church in town leads it a few times a year and you can simulcast it in your house, so this allows people with little kiddo's to actually attend.  We set the kids up upstairs with a few movies and we all piled in downstairs, David smoked two GIANT boston butts, and everyone brought goodies.  Wonderful way to spend Good Friday.

Everyone cleared out of the house Friday night around 1am, we cleaned up and got to bed around 2am, then kiddos started stirring around 7:30.  So since we were up we may as well go to the city egg hunt that was withing walking distance from our house!  Several friends in our Sunday School class came over and we all headed over together.  The kids were so cute and this egg hunt was wonderful!  Not too crowded and plenty of goodies for everyone.  

Easter Morning the girls woke up to some surprises from the Easter bunny!  Both girls got a vege tales movie and some candy.  CA got some new sippy cups (since she's now drinking milk like a big girl!) and SK got a book and some stickers for the window.  

 After several pieces of candy for breakfast, it was time to get ready for church.  Our church hosted a community service at the local civic complex (that houses ~3,000 people) so we got dressed and went over there.  It was a great time of worship and was especially great to see our whole church and members of the community together in one place for Easter (our church has 3 services, so just us all being together was so neat!).

  

Getting Tubes...

The weekend before Easter both girls got tubes.  I guess their parents both had tubes and we gave them our bad ear genes, so they were destined!  SK actually had decent hearing loss due to the gunk in her ear (that had been there who knows how long) and CA had an infection and fluid that wouldn't go away so our ENT said to go ahead with tubes just after her first infection.  So, with one swoop we now have two girls that can hear MUCH better!  They were both great before the procedure and were both grouchy after waking up from the anesthesia.  Recovery was easy and now everyone is good to go.  We LOVE our ENT, so if anyone is in the B'ham area and needs a recommendation let me know.

 Before they procedure.  They were really good, especially since we had to be there at 5:30am.

 Snoozing after waking up from the anesthesia - I couldn't get a similar "after" picture of SK because she was freaking out!  Her mouth tasted funny from the mask she had to wear and she was saying her hands stunk.  Finally I found some baby lotion in the diaper bag and that appeaser her so her hands didn't stink.  No a fan of SK on heavy med's!

Flower and teddy bears from Nana, Grandpa, Aunt Rachael, and Uncle Andrew - THANKS!