Easter Weekend!

Spring has sprung in the Portland area.  Although we have had a lot of sunny weather, we've are still getting our fair share of wet weather.

This last weekend was Easter, and on the Saturday we did indeed endure some wet weather.  We went to the church carnival in the morning, and although it was raining, the kids still enjoyed an egg hunt, bounce house, carnival games, and free hot dogs!  I was so impressed with our church and the amazing job they did of the carnival that was free to the entire community.  After we dried off and rested, we decorated our Easter eggs.

After the kids finished decorating eggs, we told them about OUR Easter gift to them... a new dog.  We are becoming a guardian family for a little boy Australian Labradoodle named Hawk.  We will make him available to the breeder to breed for about 3 years, and after that time he's completely ours.  He's about 13 weeks old right now, but here's a few photos of him at 3, 5, and 7 weeks.

So after that big news we spent the afternoon shopping for little Hawk and getting things ready for his arrival next week.  The following morning was Easter and Molly went room-to-room waking everyone up at 6:30 a.m.  Of course the Easter Bunny had made it's delivery.  Their baskets were predominately filled with craft supplies, but they were excited to see a gift card to Build-A-Bear in there too!

The Easter Bunny had also hidden quite a few eggs around the downstairs floor of the house.  The kids got right to it, searching for eggs in every nook and cranny.  Paige had twisted her ankle the day before and was worried that her siblings were going to out-race her to the eggs.  So Garrett made it his goal to point eggs out for her to get... so much so that at the end he had hardly collected any eggs while Paige's basket was full.  So they collectively decided to split the eggs evenly between them, without any of our prompting.  Such sweet sweet kids!

Then it was off to church, where the Savage family would be joining us.  I spent most of the service taking photos of the baptism for the pastors, but it was a really great service and reminder of why we as Christians celebrate Easter.

In the afternoon the Savages came over with Scott's mom for Easter dinner.  There was WAY too much awesome food, and the kids had a great time playing together.  This Easter I am so filled with thankfulness that God has blessed our family by letting us live so close to family.  And of course I can't help but be reminded of the awesome gift that Jesus gave us on Easter and EVERY day of the year!