Tree progress

I have had a request for updates on how the tree is doing, so here you go, Judy!  I'm starting to see pink!!!

Happy 40th, Aunt Bek!

It was fun trying to make 40 special!  We have had 4 milestone birthdays in a row in our family in the last few months.  Whew!  This is the last one for a while.  Always good to be together and to celebrate each other.  And 40 is fine when you look 29!

Green buds on our tree!

We didn't kill it yet!  So exciting!

And finally...Easter!

I am so thankful for a victorious God who conquered death on the cross and loved me enough to let me experience that in my life as well.  Praise the Lord!  He is Risen!  We had such a wonderful Easter Sunday at our church.  There was such a sweet spirit of worship.  We started out with a church breakfast which was so much fun to do.  I have never been a part of a church that did an Easter breakfast before.  Then we had some special music.  I always love hearing the men's group sing.  You can tell they all really love to sing which makes it so meaningful.  And then Matt preached a great sermon in spite of not feeling the best.  Then we had some friends over for lunch and grilled out and then did our egg hunt with the kids.  Jock even got a special Easter toy, so they all racked up!  Whew!  I was exhausted later but so worth it!  I loved it all!  

Jock and Aaron = buddies!

Both Jock and Aaron are in cahoots with each other.  They share things to chew on, and I think Aaron feeds Jock.  We have our struggles with Jock still sometimes, but I love that all of the kids can play with him and pull on him and he doesn't mind.  Definite progress!

Kids stuff

Ok all of these are blurry pictures.  My phone camera does not always do the best these days.  But here are the kids singing for one of our sweet church ladies.  

Kids 4 Truth awards.  The kids we have are such a joy.   What a fun little group.  So happy and excited to learn.  We have a great time with them on Wednesday nights, and everyone got their patch last week! 

And I caught a great smile from Aaron

New shutters

My amazing husband just decided he was going to make me shutters and so he did!  He can pretty much do anything.  He studies, figures it out, prepares and always does a great job.  I'm always so happy with how everything he does turns out.  In this case, I wanted some rustic shutters.  And I love them!