Easter 2012

We had a great Easter celebration this year.  We enjoyed "old" traditions, as well as adding new ones.

We found a local church in our neighborhood that gathers the kids to teach them the Easter story before hosting an egg hunt.  The boys loved it and so did mom and dad.

It was really nice watching all the children gather round the pastor and listen to the story.

Then it was time for the hunt:

The highlight of the Easter egg hunt was that when Cooper was opening his eggs there was an empty one.  He opened it, looked up and said:  "The tomb is empty!!!  I got the "empty tomb egg"!!!"

The boys also got to go to Gaga Linda's house for an egg hunt and lunch.  

When they returned from Gaga Linda's house, their gifts for Easter were waiting for them.  

2 big baskets of toys and games AND 2 bikes!!!!

(pictures and video to follow on a different post about that)

Aunt Karleen sent a bag full of eggs for us to have our own egg hunt in the backyard.  There were over 60 eggs total that we hid.  (sorry, no pictures for this.  They are on Chris' phone.)

We ended Easter weekend going to church to celebrate and had a great Easter brunch.

Our new traditions:  

1.  attending the Easter egg hunt at the church listening to the Easter story

2.  getting the Easter gifts on Saturday (focusing on "He is Risen" on Easter day).  That is all the gift we need on Easter Sunday.

Living Life

Yes, it has been 3 months since my last post.  Life has been keeping us quite busy around here.

Quick recap:

In February, we put into action our plan of adopting.  We finally decided on an agency and took the leap.  In March, we went through all of the paperwork and meetings for home study.  So far in April, we are just waiting for the final paperwork from our case worker to be completed so we can sign it and have our home study finalized.  Of course, a lot more went on during these past 3 months, but this has been what has consumed our "extra" time.

We were hesitant to blog about our adoption process but got the "go ahead" from our case worker on it.  So, as well as trying to update regarding the boy's progress on life, I will be trying to keep track of our adoption process.