Northern Lights: Our Easter

To begin our Easter weekend we were able to get together with 2 of my most favorite girls ever; Whitney and Katy. Whitney and Nate (Whitney's boyfriend) came over first and we spend the afternoon catching up on past weeks. A little later Katy came by and we all had a wonderful time chatting and catching up. Creed let Whitney feed him and enjoyed being the center of attention.

Whitney holding Creed

Aren't they cute!

I am a little embarrassed to show you pictures of the kids in their new "spring" outfits. I snapped the pictures of my darling children (the 2 older ones) and thought to myself-Gone are the days of real smiles and cute poses ;( But, nevertheless, here they are...

I never did get a shot of Creed. I can still pose him and it is much easier to get a smile from him these days, so I will post one in his outfit later.

We had Sunrise Service at the church at 8 am. The BYG (Beltrami Youth Group) is responsible for that part of the Easter service. We were a little late this year and apparently missed out on a superb re-enactment of the Crucifixion. What we did see of it was really good. Good job guys! After the service they serve us a quiche breakfast with a sweet roll, coffee or O.J. Then the regular service starts. This year Katie, Hannah and Isaac sang a trio, I don't recall the name of the song, but it was fantastic, they sounded so good together.

After church we headed to Randy and Susan's for Turkey sandwiches, this was the precursor to the Easter meal which we had at our house for supper. At Sue's we hid jellybeans for the kids and dyed easter eggs. Everyone came over to our place for a Ham, homemade bread, corn from our garden and potatoes. Later that night the kids hid plastic eggs filled with jelly beans for the adults. The kids got a kick out of being the ones to hide the eggs and they are really good at finding some tough hiding spots for us. It was a blast.

John and Diane and their 4 kids, Philip, Stephan, JoAnna and Lydia are here from Virginia. Val came up from Nebraska and Ron and Sandy, Kristen and Chad came from down by the Cities. With everyone here except for Hiedi and her family we had 30 people. The house was full and lively, just the way I like it!

Here Auntie Val is having some cuddle time with Creed.