Dying Eggs

Silly smiles  :)

How do the eggs look?

Happy Easter!

- becky

Easter Sunday

He is risen!  He is risen, indeed!  Alleluia!

Easter Sunday is such a wonderful day.  We had beautiful weather up here this year, so it was especially fun for Mallory to wear a dress.  It was a traditional day for our family - church (sunrise service at 6:30 a.m.!), brunch at church, then a turkey and ham lunch at home as a family.  Sunrise service was really nice.  It was still dark outside when we left for church.  Mallory promptly noticed this and said, "Oh no!  I think we woke up too early!"  It was so funny!

 It is nearly impossible to get both kids to look at the camera at the same time.  This is the best I could do for a brother/sister picture.

Silly boy!  :)

- becky

70 Years

The Werder side of Tim's family had a 70th Wedding Anniversary party for Tim's grandparents on the Saturday before Easter. We were not able to stay for the actual party because we had to be back in Appleton for the Sunrise Service on Easter morning. However, we did make a quick trip on Friday night/Saturday morning to wish the grandparents well.

Mallory went straight for her great-grandpa's lap.

Isaiah always had to know where great-grandma was while we were visiting at their house.

Tim and his grandpa

GREAT family picture! :)

After our visit with the grandparents, we went for lunch at the Pizza Ranch (of course) in Willmar. We met up with Tim's parents; Abby, Mark, Paul, and Hannah; and Nick, Jess, Hannah, and Ian.

As a prepared Mom, I brought along some trains for Isaiah so that we could visit with the adults.

Paul and Hannah

Ian and Isaiah talking trains, I'm sure.

Hannah, Isaiah (nice pose, buddy), and Ian

It was a quick visit, but we sure were glad to be able to make the trip. We wish we had been able to stay longer! Thankfully, we have a summer Minnesota trip to look forward to!

- becky

Menu Monday

The pulled pork baked potatoes were a success last week. Between that and the pot roast, I didn't even make spaghetti. We'll keep that on reserve for this week. We had planned to make some kind of rib roast for Easter, but we ended up ordering take-out from Famous Dave's. The All-American BBQ Feast was a special price for the day, so we ordered that. We have a TON of food left-over. I'm sure it will get us to Wednesday, at least.

The leftovers will be for our lunches; I'm trying to be good and have salad for dinners. I've been cutting up ham or chicken from the bbq and adding it to my salad. I've also been on a Craisins kick - yummy!

So, for this week it's leftovers followed by spaghetti.

- becky

Happy Easter!

Well, it's been an interesting day. Tim had church at 6:00 this morning. The kids and I met him at church for the pancake breakfast before attending the 8:00 service. Choir sang at both 8 and 10:30, but I brought the kids home right after singing at 10:30 to get the lamb in the oven - see the picture below!

Gotta love this one! Mallory wore her first dress today! So sweet!

This is hilarious! Jessie is hiding behind Isaiah, holding him up. Please DON'T say, "Oh, he's going to be a pastor just like his daddy!" We wanted to take a cute picture, not force him down a career path. Besides, it seems he's already on his way down a path of identifying circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals, stars, hearts, and octagons for a living. Either that or he'll be a train engineer.

I made a lamb!!! It turned out really good, too!

So, this will be a quick post. Isaiah has developed that wonderful stomach flu that's going around. I'm going to go take care of him and pray that the rest of us don't get it, too.

- becky