Easter Eve

I love, love, love everything about Easter. This is the first "married" Easter that David and I have had together. I'm writing this on the Saturday evening between Good Friday and Easter Morning. We were blessed with the most glorious rain this afternoon and I got to watch Presley and Mia play and eat copious amounts of candy all afternoon. It was GREAT. They also modeled their new swimsuits, which their ultracool Mums bought them instead of the traditional Easter dresses. Because really, sometimes tradition is overrated and getting your first swimsuit of the season is just SO MUCH FUN. Honestly, watching them run around the house in those suits, dragging Easter baskets behind them...it was just so comical.

On another matter, watching David participate in the Maundy Thursday community service touched me BIG TIME in quite another way. He read the part in the voice of Thomas, the apostle who doubted.

There's just so much to be happy about this spring.

Here's some of them:

1. My precious husband

2. Our boys are making future plans, finally getting some visions for the futures....which...not surprisingly, seem sorta similar.

3. My daughter married the love of her life this year and is sublimely happy.

4. I love my new Sunday School class...I recently started teaching an adult class at my church..they are young couples and a blast...and so interesting.

5. I can go on and on and will in future posts.......probably ad nauseum

This is the day that the Lord hath made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!

Full Nest Syndrome

I think I speak for the crowd when I say that having our children home from college is ........delightful. And by that I mean interesting in an exhausting way. Really (and my unscientific poll backs me up) I think they are trying to kill us. Late nights, messy bathrooms, stuff absolutely everywhere. Well, really, just exactly like when they were home...except somehow, I got a little delusional and fantasized that they had become grown-up and that they would be transformed somehow into civilized, tidy little gentlemen. Once, I heard an older gentleman say he would love to see his college age daughter "for about fifteen minutes". I didn't understand that statement then, but I do now.

But.....I sure will miss them when they're gone....and the house is so quiet again. Having both boys, all their friends...and all of their girlfriends for New Year's Eve was a blast. Thanks, boys, for including us in your good times!! Here's to 2009!

Post-Christmas Stuff

Ummmmm, first post. Just in case I ever have anything fun or interesting to say....now I've got a place to say (I mean write) it! The name was suggested by Cameron and now we're brainstorming names for his own blog just in case he decides to go ahead with it.

We are undecorating after a really wonderful Christmas. Our first Christmas together as newly blended family (I'm not really crazy about that term....but for lack of a better.......). We spent most of the holiday in Darrouzett in a hunting lodge---the best idea my sister ever had. It housed all 20 of us very comfortably. If you ever have a need for a hunting lodge in the northeastern Texas panhandle...go to the Last Buffalo. It was fab.

Santa Claus visited....proof will be attached if I can manage it...Callie was obviously expecting him. She rushed toward him was if she were attached on a string. She started up in the middle of a conversation with old St. Nick that had obviously been going on in her mind for some time....."and I want a bike, and....." It was a great moment, one we'll all remember. Leave it to Connie to set up so many memorable moments!!