Sunday, 4/5/26, Went to early service at church, Bill stayed for second service, Melissa, Bruce and family came to our church today, Everyone but Kenzie came over to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. Abi came too! It was a blessed day.

Happy Resurrection Day!  Worship and church was awesome today!

Eli and Adam this morning

Jacob, Abi and Eli relaxing 

Revhyn excited about his Easter Basket

Looking cool in his sunglasses and holding his poppit lamb

Rehvyn with three little trucks that came with the bath bombs papa found online and ordered for him.  The bath bombs dissolve and there are cars in them.  What a sweet Papa. 

Vikki and Rehvyn

Travis and Rehvyn....Travis sure was loving and good with Rehvyn.  Kenzie had to go to an art show and sell their stuff

DJ on the left, Travis, Bill, Bruce and Max and Vader

Evan with his Basket

Kody with his basket

Going through the stuff in his basket

Kody with his cross necklace that came late for his birthday

Peyton with her basket

Jack and Wookie.  I didn’t get a picture of him with his basket...Kit Kat is in the window

Max and Vader

Hailey

Melissa

Stacie

Adam

Jared, DJ and Stacie

Melissa, Hailey and Kimmy

Jacob, Abi, Vikki, Rody, and Peyton

The kids getting ready to go out the front door to do the egg hunt.  Evan, Jack, Eli, Hailey, Jacob, Abi Peyton and RehvynThe back yard was too wet, so decided to do the front yard.  Jared put all the eggs out by himself.  What a blessing he is!  Bill and Travis went to look at a car for Travis and Kenzie, Bruce had to run home and wasn’t back yet.

Abi, Jacob, Jack and Evan during the egg hunt

Peyton gathering eggs

Grammy and Rehvyn hunting for eggs.  I love Hailey laughing and gathering eggs in the background

Yay!  Hailey wasn’t being bugged by Jacob and Adam this year.  Nana didn’t even have to help her get more eggs.  

Jacob, Peyton and Abi

Eli gathering eggs

Abi and Jacob

Rehvyn

Eli and Rehvyn

Melissa and Adam

Jacob and Abi going through eggs and counting their money and sorting their candy.  They did some trading with Hailey.  Hailey, Rehvyn, Peyton and Vikki are in the background going through their eggs.

Bill lost the first game when he, Melissa, Jack (playing for the first time) Jared, Jacob and Abi and I played.  Here he is doing his Hee Haw

Max playing Donkey for the first time with Papa, Melissa, Kimmy and Jared.  It was a wild game with Melissa and Max going back and forth giving each other wood tiles.  Max ended up winning and going out,  Melissa went out next because she gave Jared a lot of tiles, then Bill gave Jared lots of wood tiles too, Kimmy went out too.  Poor Jared got stuck with the donkey, and had to wear the hat and say Hee Haw

Jared and Max playing.  Max really liked the game and did lots of laughing

Jacob and Jared.....Jared’s stack was so high

Jared did a great job hee hawing and wearing that donkey hat. Abi thought it was pretty funny

Jacob and Arnie

Arnie and Isaac!  They match!

Jacob, Abi and Rehvyn

Hailey and Rehvyn...Rehvyn giving her a kiss.

Peyton and Rehvyn

Nice family picture of Melissa’s family...Evan, Hailey, Melissa, Bruce, Max and Jack plus family pets, Vader and Wookie

Evan and Hailey...Her baby brother is bigger than her now

We drove separately to church.  I only went to the early service and Bill stayed for both.  I had to get home and prepare food for dinner.  Jacob and Abi came early, so it was a good thing I came home.  I was so happy to see them.  They asked what they could do to help so I washed potatoes, Abi forked them, then put olive oil on them, then Jacob salted them, wrapped them in foil and put them in the big oven roaster.  We were a great team.  When I finished washing them, I offered to take one of their places, but they said they were having fun and wanted to finish.  They were such blessings and such a great help. They sure saved me a lot of time.  Jacob carried them out and put them in the roaster.  I started the roaster, figuring it would be about 1 1/2 hours before they would be done.  I had watched a video on it and she had said around an hour.  I had the sloppy Joes going in 2 crockpots already and had a sheet cake baked.  

All the girls and families were going to church, than coming over later.  They all got here close to the same time.  Melissa brought chips, Hailey made guacamole salsa, and cheese its that tasted amazing, Stacie brought deviled eggs, Vikki brought buns an Kimmy brought freezer corn from their garden.  The potatoes took longer than the lady said so after 1 1/2 hours, we decided to have the dad’s hide the baskets and let the kids find them.  I handed envelopes with money or gift cards from Bill and I to each of the grandkids and Abi.  Only six kids wanted baskets this year.  Those over 18 don’t get baskets anymore, but get gift cards.  They did get to eat out of the adult age candy container that I made up.  They were pretty happy about that.  I also put a bowl of colored hardboiled eggs out.  Kimmy had started the cooking the freezer corn in the microwave too and that took longer than we thought too.  That and the potatoes ended up getting done around the same time.  Finally we put things on the table, then prayed as a family and ate. We ate dessert afterwards.   Everything tasted good.  Travis and Rehvyn had left before we ate to go to Omi’s for her egg hunt and dinner.  He came back in time for our egg hunt and he ate before we did that.  He left with Bill to go look at a car.  Vikki fed Rehvyn, because he didn’t eat hardly anything at Omi’s.  Then all the kids lined up and went out the front door and did the egg hung.  Isaac, Adam, Kody and Max didn’t do it this year.  It was cold and windy out so the kids were fast getting all those eggs.  I took extra buckets out to them.  Rehvyn was really cute finding eggs.  They all came in and opened the eggs and counted the money they got.  Eli got the most with getting $10.50 in quarters.  

We had a great day hanging out and playing games.  It was so nice having all the family here and having Abi as a bonus. (except we missed Kenzie) The kids all enjoyed hanging out together.  I am so thankful we have a close family.  It was late when everyone left and Eli and Isaac spent the night at our house.  Jack and Evan wanted to also, but they had things going on in the morning.  Bill and I went to bed at 1:10 and the boys had to be in bed at 2 a.m. their moms said.  Phones went on the kitchen counter while they slept upstairs.  They are great kids and follow rules well.  I’m so glad they still like to spend the night.

Saturday, 4/4/26, Hailey and I went to Starbucks and picked up a mobile order, Vikki and Isaac picked Peyton up, Hailey went home, I made sloppy joes for tomorrow, colored eggs, went to Chris Seager’s retirement Party, made sheet cake

Hailey and I after going to Starbucks

Peyton and I...she didn’t want to go to Starbucks with us because she was tired.  She texted me her order though and we brought her a drink back.  She was the last one to go to bed last night.

I was happy Isaac came with Vikki today.  They took Eli home today.  They sure had a fun Easter break together 

Peyton and Hailey had to leave.  I colored eggs after they left

They sure are pretty colors.

Hailey and I were the first ones up this morning.  We slept in til 8:30.  Hailey ate some dry Lucky Charms.  She’s like those since she was little.  Peyton was still sleeping on the couch when we got up.  I asked Hailey if she wanted to go to Starbucks and she did.  Peyton still wanted to sleep, but she wanted us to bring her something back so Hailey did a mobile order on my phone and used a gift card and got us a good deal.  Hailey pretty much knows all the deals.  She is a good steward of her money.  I guess college kids need to be.  It was a very rainy day, pouring at times.  We went to Starbucks, then we went to Kroger so I could get a retirement card and I needed 2 more gift cards.  We took some pictures, and enjoyed our Starbucks drinks, then Vikki and Isaac stopped over on their way back from Kimmy’s to pick Peyton up.  Hailey took a shower, then she got ready and had to leave too.  I started browning burger for sloppy joes, so got the eggs ready to color.  I had plenty of cups to put the tablets in.  The colors sure turned out bright and beautiful.  After the burger was cooked and cooling, I colored the eggs.  With all the cups, it didn’t take long and the eggs were done.  

I talked to Sue.  She is going to go to her niece’s for Easter with Chuck’s sister.  I had invited her here.  I’m just glad she is getting out.  If they end up getting sick or anything she said she would come here.

I took a 20 minute rest where I just closed my eyes, then I read my Bible.  Bill had already read his.  We did our Prayer books/devotionals too.  I listed to Elevation’s last Sunday’s message and it was so good.  Vikki told me about it.  Melissa called me and said they were going to Hailey’s church by her college and Max wanted to go too.  I was so happy he wanted to go with them.  Then she called and said their basement was leaking.  There was nothing Bruce could really do, so they still went to church.  Melissa said it was a great message.  She grabbed a book, so they can listen to the whole series and follow along in the book.  I wanted to listen to that message tonight.  I will start it and probably have to finish it after Easter.  

Bill and I went to Chris’s retirement party.  We had a great time.  It was at G’s Pizzeria and the pizza, breadsticks and salad were all so delicious.  They had lots of different pizzas set out.  We talked to people we knew, then sat down.  Then we greeted Pastor Ken an Joan when we saw them come in.  They ended up coming and sitting across from us.  We had a nice visit.  Maddy texted me and had me pray that no water gets in the basement of their new house they close on Tuesday.  They have water coming in the basement of the duplex they are renting right now.  After all this rain, our back yard has lots of water in it, so we will have to do the Easter Egg hunt in the front yard.  Thankful no water is coming in the house though.  That is no fun.  We took a ride over two bridges and saw how high the water is and also the flooding all over.  Praying they take the rain out of the forecast the rest of the week.  We came home and I made the sheet cake.  Then I worked on my blog.  Now I’m ready for bed.