We had a great Easter weekend.
Saturday our church had a city wide Easter Egg Hunt.† We hid 25,000 eggs and had 75 brand new bikes to give away.† It is so amazing to be able to serve our city.
The 25,000 eggs were 90% gone within 30 seconds.† I am NOT joking!
Entries for the bikes and all those shiny new bikes all lined up.† You should have seen the faces of the happy winners!
The JV kids gave away free drinks.† Keilee loved working the booth.
Keilee with her Easter basket.† We didn’t do much this year because I have been laid off for a couple of weeks. I should be back to receiving my check in a week or so, so all’s good. 🙂
The other 2 pictures are her at Epic and in front of our red roses.† Aren’t they gorgeous?
This is what Keilee made me for Easter.† It is a beautiful knitted tree with crocheted flowers, butterflies and a little green worm.† She worked on it for a couple of weeks.† It is almost 20″ high!† I love it!
We went to church twice this weekend.† We had a service Saturday at 4:00 for the Dream Team.† This is the group of people who serve in some way.† It was amazing. It is always a different vibe in these services.† Everyone is just so geeked to be there.† Then we also went Sunday morning at 9:00.
Our AMAZING worship band dressed in 1930’s clothing and performed “Nothing But the Blood”† Please watch it here if you have time.† This was just shot on a camera but it is so good.† I got chills when they performed it.
After church we headed to Daddy and Marlene’s for Easter dinner.† We had tons of food and afterwards the kids played “Jarts” and had an Easter Egg hunt.
All in all a lovely day was had by all.† What a blessing our church, our family and friends and just our lives are.† Even though I have been laid off and had NO money, everything just seems to always work out.† The Grace of God…
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
‘Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.í ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You are truly blessed friend!!! Happy Belated Easter.
Wow, that is a lot of eggs! And a lot of bikes! It looks like you had a wonderful time. I love the tree Keilee made for you. So creative! (Cute little worm!)
The jarts look like a lot of fun! I love Keilee’s creative gift to you. It sort of fits in with your botany studies, no?
Theresa, my daughter has cousins her age, too, and we were thrilled when the kids were born. However, that family turns out to have hugely different parenting styles and the cousins have never ended up being friends. It’s a chore for her to get together with them, sadly. In fact, this Easter, she spent pretty much the whole time entertaining the much younger neighbors of her cousins who had been invited to Easter dinner, as well. Ah well.
Wow! What a magnificent Easter. And your church rocks. 😉
Your church is such an anchor in your life. I love reading about the amazing things you do to bring joy to others. You share your light with not only those you touch through volunteering, but those of us who share in it by reading about it. It is inspiring Karen.
Happy Easter!
Looks like a really awesome Easter weekend for you all 🙂 The photos of Keilee are beautiful!
I love how generous your church is! that is what it should be like! It’s awesome that Keilee feels comfortable there and had the opportunity to volunteer!
Beautiful photos with the hat and the roses!! Keilee is fortunate to have cousins around her age–my girls have on cousin and she is 5, oftentimes they are the only kids at a function!