easter

Easter is Pam’s holiday, so we all headed there.  See her plants sprouting? O.M.G.  And my kids always react to a trip to Pam’s like you’d imagine a person would to a trip to Disney. They shriek, jump in the air, go nuts.  It’s bizarre, and they’re also very sad her trampoline wore out and […]

 The excited people all gathered in the doorway. And then we went back inside for church.  The music was gorgeous, and in spite of the gloomy day, it was warm and festive inside. love, Val

 And then there was this at the end of the day.  Love, Val

It was a great week, bright and sunny. There was a preschool service and songs, very nice. They found a wooly bear caterpillar, which is always a good thing.  We filled the pinata with candy, ready to take to Pam and Paul’s on Sunday.  It’s safely held in the trunk to keep thieves out of

 Church was beautiful, the message inspiring. Easter is my sister’s holiday, so we went to their house for dinner and the afternoon. John’s family posed for a family picture. That circle in the middle is where the trampoline used to be. Sadly, it fell apart over time and has been removed. Yeah. It’s been over

 This is something Julia and p.j. do for hours on end–create decorations for the Barbie house. See the wallpaper in the photo above?   Santa wallpapered the walls with wallpaper from our own house. How did he do that? I don’t know, but he did. Anyway, that wallpaper was from our bathroom in our old

Here is Julia in the same dress she wore last year, the one specifically chosen for its stretchiness for jumping on Pam’s trampoline. Last year the trampoline was trapped in a snowbank. This year the well at their fine home is not working properly so the party was relocated to the parents’ house. But this

 It was cold!  Really cold out.   But it was a really nice day too.  We headed to church for the pancake breakfast, a fund-raiser for church camp.  The Easter Egg Hunt was very nasty and quite brief.  Inside was better.  This was before the church service.  Later the sun came out.  And of this whole

We did the eggs this morning–gotta do these things where there’s time.     Alicia agreed to come have lunch and join us in this endeavor. The little girl, p.j. loves her cousin b.g. so much.   I went to the grocery store this morning for the eggs and vinegar, and when I came back and the door