Easter At Our House

Happy Easter! These were some of the scenes at our house this past weekend...

After the egg hunt, surveying the loot
You can tell by Chloe's shirt that she had already been enjoying some Easter candy!
Love Olivia's face in this picture
A little more excited here...

The masterpieces - notice the egg shells in the bottom of the pic - we ate the ones we broke!

Olivia's favorite - pink, of course!

Praise God!

We praise the Lord that Noah accepted Christ as his Savior today! At lunch we were all talking about what we had learned in Sunday school, and we were discussing what Easter means. The conversation led around to salvation and I said to Noah, "Maybe someday you'll want to be saved." I have said this to him in the past, and he usually says "Maybe someday Mom." We have never tried to push salvation with him. But today he said "I want to do it today!" So we said "How do you get saved?" And he replied "You pray to God." We said "What do you say?" And he proceeded to tell us exactly what you should say and what you need to believe. Paul and I looked at each other and said "He's ready!" So Daddy got to lead Noah in taking this important step - how special!

Noah was so excited about getting saved. We wrote the date in his Bible (which is what he's holding in the picture below), and he called both sets of grandparents to tell them the good news right away.

Olivia was so excited for Noah too. :) She leaned over to Paul during church tonight and whispered "I'm SO GLAD Noah got saved today!"

We feel so blessed that God answered our prayer today by saving Noah. Our prayer for the future is that our girls will also be saved and that our children will glorify God with their lives.

The Mismatched Family

Who knew that unmatched socks could be so cute?

Wish I had thought of this idea!

Grammy's Visit

We always enjoy Grammy's (my mom's) visits so much. This time she came for a week and we all got thoroughly spoiled. These are some highlights from her visit.

Livi helped Grammy cook

Chloe improving her eyesight
Livi's new dress, umbrella and flowers -

she was in dress-up heaven.

Noah's new marble run -

great fun for a kid who likes constructing things

We played soooo much Settlers - and had soooo much fun!
This is the "one-more-picture-before-you-go" picture

Notice Chloe has her shoe in her hand, all set and ready to go with Grammy!

A Place to Relax

Chloe chillin' in the kitchen cabinet, waiting for action.

I found this picture from three years ago when Olivia was just about the same age as Chloe is now. She also would sit in the cabinets! I guess Olivia wasn't quite so choosy about which cabinet to choose, judging from the trash can right next to her!

Goin' to the Chapel

We can thank Aunt Sarah for the latest inspiration to Olivia's dressing up.

The blue legs are stylin'!

A Lego Day

Today was our second snow day of the week for the kids. Combine that with Olivia's illness earlier this week, and what you get is a very long week for momma, who is coming down with a strong case of cabin fever. I have had to be quite creative trying to find things to occupy the kiddos. We've done Play-Doh, Moon Sand, baked cookies, had quite a few tea parties...I even tried to put a fun spin on cleaning - "Come on, kids, how fast can you wipe down all the walls???" No takers on that one - they're getting too savvy for me.

So today we had a "Lego Party". Noah's fascination with TinkerToys has morphed into an obsession with Legos, which he received quite a lot of for Christmas and his birthday.


I am usually quite useless when it comes to building cool things with Legos, claiming that Daddy is much better at it (which he is), but this time I can proudly say that I actually put some time and thought into the whole process and put together quite a fine two-story house complete with kitchen, living room, dining room, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Had to get a close-up since this doesn't happen too often. :)
Eventually the Legos became money, and Noah became the shopkeeper who charged Olivia money just for entering and leaving his store. I'm thinking we got a fine math lesson in today with all the counting she had to do to pay his high fees!