Easter Week!

What a great Easter week we had!  Jack and Roxanne were here for a good long visit.  Among the un-pictured highlights - 

- a trip to Lindale to visit Roxanne's aunt and uncle

- Luke teaching Sunday School twice

- cleaning up the yard - big time - including having a giant rotten stump removed and moving the neighbor's play set into our yard

- a Luke & Holly's 24 hour trip to Shreveport!  We ate out, stumbled upon a beautiful garden on our walk, went to a movie, and did some shopping.  What a fun little excursion!

- a few rounds of Hide & Seek

- lots of book reading time

- going to 2 of Isaiah's baseball games

- going to a girls' softball game at LeTu

- Me getting really rolling on my Avon business.  I spent a full day and a half w/ Maggie, the woman passing her business on to me.  It was so great to have extra help during all that!

- a trip to Caddo Lake (the only natural lake in East Texas)

- a fishing trip for the Tallon men with some friends from church

- a few rounds of a super fun egg game from Mimi and Pa last year

- two trips to putt putt

- the first trip to the splash pad (while we were gone) - the kids got to get in - in their clothes - and haven't stopped talking about it!

And the pictured happenings:

I didn't get to stretch my artistic wings this year as I was mostly trying to keep Lucy from egg-dying catastrophe 

The play set!!  One of the things Isaiah really wanted in the new house was a tree house.  This is pretty close!  All three kids are totally thrilled with it - 

We made Resurrection Cookies on Sat. night - 

Resurrection Garden on Easter morning - One of my favorite traditions!

 Easter baskets!  Bibles/devotionals, new jammies, and candy - 

Easter Morning sweeties - 

The post-church hunt!

We had Doug and Karissa and baby-to-be over for lunch.  Ham, cheesy potatoes, asparagus, and cobbler a la Karissa.