Easter 2015

It turns out that moving, getting a new computer, and working both a full- and part-time job keep me away from blogging. The miracle of Easter has turned into a miracle blog entry!

Our new church has a great setup for the kids, and we loved participating! Here is Viv, getting ready to go get her some eggs.

Sharing some tips on how to get the most eggs with her friend.

So it turns out when you tell Vivi to get ready to take a picture, she yells "Cheese" and looks everywhere but the camera. Clearly the boys have had more years of experience in this area!

The whole group, ready to hear the Easter story and search for some eggs!

This is the first year that all three of the kids were split into different age groups. Since Tim and I are only two people, we let Micah fend for himself (which he loved), Tim went with Vivi, and I went with Liam.  The camera went with me and so I have lots of pics of Liam getting his eggs.  And, he's off!

This hunt was a little different than our previous ones in Florida. We had to bundle up a lot more, and we got to search in the edge of some woods for our eggs!

I went around the building to try to get a shot of Micah hunting his eggs, and I was too late - I found him in the fellowship hall already digging in to his loot.

All three, pre-sugar.

At home, we dyed our Easter eggs. Colorful and delicious.

Liam got a lot of different stickers in his Easter eggs. The only thing to do was put them all on at once, of course.

This year, our family decided to participate in "Passion Into Action", which is a campaign started by a fellow adoptive mom. She coordinates the sale of t-shirts for Easter, and the profits from the sale are donated to a different charity each year.  So instead of spending our money on new Easter clothes, we all bought t-shirts and wore those to church today.

After church, we headed to Tim's Aunt Bobbi's house and spent some time with her family. Vivi has really loved spending time with Daddy Paul, Tim's grandfather. She captivated his time today, talking to him, bringing him slices of cheese, and walking with him all around the yard. It was such a beautiful sight to see a 3-year-old with her 94-year-old great-grandfather.

Finally, one last picture of all three gathered together, smiling, and looking at the camera. Happy Easter 2015!

Snow...Sort of

There was a winter storm forecasted to hit town at the same time that the children were going to be let out from school. So the school called for an early dismissal and I ended up with three children at home, all of whom were unbelievably excited for the flakes to start to fall.

Predictably, the "storm" wasn't much of one, ultimately giving us not much more than a dusting.  And the "storm" hit closer to the dinner hour than the end of school.

But these kids just had to go outside and experience it.  And since mama had dropped some money this morning on boots and snow pants so that they would be prepared to play in said snow, I thought it was a good idea to get them outside.

Liam and Vivi getting ready to take on the snow.
Viv spent a little time just getting her footing.

Liam barreled down the hill.

Micah worked out his steering.

Just the cutest thing on a pink sled in all of Chester County.

Can you even race with so little snow?

One happy boy.

I hate that this picture is so blurry but I adore how much fun they're having. And on the same sled!

They even had fun falling off the sled into the snow grass.

Daddy helped Vivi slide down the hill.

A happy crew.  Well, three out of four of them were pretty happy to be out in the snow.

And maybe one day there will be more snow for even more fun!