Happy Easter!

Our Easter Sunday began with waking early to get the pork loin stuffed and ready to go (well Jason did that) and getting everyone showered and dressed in their Sunday best so we could get to church on time for breakfast. Due to hair issues we arrived at church at 8:35 and by the time we got through the breakfast line, we had about 10 minutes to slam down some scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausage and OJ. Remarkably we did it and made into the service with 5 minutes to spare! The service was wonderful. Our church doesn't often sing hymns, but there's something wonderful about Easter and singing the good 'ol favorites.

We got home from church around 10:45 and Jason began cooking the most AMAZING meal ever! I can only take credit for picking out the recipe, he was the master at cooking it...pork loin stuffed with hazelnut stuffing with a wild blueberry sauce, sweet potatoes and veggies in Alfredo sauce (I actually made those). Our dear friends, Paul and Linda, joined us for lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon with us. It was wonderful to be able to spend the day with them.

We took advantage of having them here to take a family picture. Jason's earlier attempt at it left us with a picture of chopped off heads and chins. I gave us a great laugh though! I guess his arms aren't as long as we thought...hee, hee, hee!

The Family Shot

Paul & Linda with the boys
For dessert Linda thought it would be fun for the boys to make bunny cakes so she came prepared with the directions and all of the fixin's. They had a blast. Here's some shots of their little projects...

Kory & Paul's Bunny

Kyle & Linda's Bunny

The finished products!

All-in-all we had a wonderful Easter celebrating our Savior's death, burial and resurrection. What joy we have in the gift of salvation God gave to us through the death of His son!

This week is the boys' spring break so we have been hanging out here at the house. They have put in many hours of PS2 already. Today we joined Jason at his office for lunch and then made the dreaded trip to Wal-Mart for a few groceries...ugh...I hate Wal-Mart, but it's just too convenient! The boys were happy as they were able to spend some of their money on a Star Wars Lego ship and some other Star Wars ship. It's kept them entertained (and off of all electronic devices) for 4 hours so far!

Tomorrow Kory is going over to a friend's house for a couple of hours. On Thursday, Jason and Kyle are taking off for South Dakota for pheasant hunting. (I personally think they are crazy!) Their plans are to be gone Thursday through late Saturday. I'm thinking that it will most likely be Sunday before Kory and I see their faces again. It's a pretty long haul from here to South Dakota! Hopefully they will be rewarded with many pheasants to bring home! Kory and I will keep up the homestead while they are away. We plan to go bowling with another one of Kory's friends on Thursday afternoon. Friday and Saturday's plans are still up in the air, but I'm sure we'll find something to do to make the time go by faster.

I hope you all had a blessed Easter. Have a great week!

Oscars Anyone?

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!

Jason's company is building the new Women's Community Center here in Wausau so on Friday evening we were invited to the kick-off to the project...their fundraiser "Hooray for Hollywood" dinner with a live/silent auction. There were around 200 people that attended from several businesses all decked out in "Oscar Attire" or dressed as their favorite Hollywood actor/actress. Jack Sparrow made an appearance, as did characters from Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds"...with birds and all! Some of the people were very creative. Every table had it's own movie theme...we were seated at the "Wizard of Oz" table. Wish I would have known that, I would have gone as Dorothy. We had a wonderful time. It was fun to reach back into the depths of my closet for the "elegant" dresses and be regal and sophisticated for an evening. I'm not sure how well the fundraiser went but when we left the auction items were going for a pretty penny so I'm sure they did quite well. My dad and his wife came into town on Friday and took the boys bowling while Jason and I were attending the fundraiser. We had a relaxing Saturday with them and so far a hectic Sunday...church, a birthday party and a seminar back at church this evening. I'm looking forward to a relatively slow week this week. Take care and God bless!

A little of this and a little of that...

a sock hop, snow storms, influenza, snow tubing, and an ear infection, just to name a few. We'll start with the sock hop. Our church had a Valentine's banquet sock hop. So Jason and I got all decked out in or 50's gear and joined our friends for an evening of stuffing our faces with cheeseburgers, soda from the soda fountain and malts. Then we all busted out our moves on the dance floor. So much fun!



The next week Kory came down with influenza and battled a 102-103 temp for 6 days. So I got a week off of work and Kory and I spent most of our days lying on the couch watching TV and taking afternoon naps! We both definitely missed our afternoon naps the next week. Kory was better just in time to go snow tubing at Sylvan Hills (our church rents the tubing hill for an evening). The same hill that Jason met with his face last year! Thankfully history didn't repeat itself! Kory was so happy to be able to get out of the house and have some fun, but he was beat and crashed hard on the way home.

We have had a couple of snow storms in the last couple of weeks, I just don't remember when. All I know is we have 4 feet of snow covering the ground in most places. Great...we'll be looking at that until May!

Kory had a good week last week, back to normal except for some head congestion. Well, the cycle has started again. Saturday night he had a fever of 103.5 and yesterday morning it was 104. So he and Jason headed off to the walk-in clinic and it was determined that he has an ear infection and was given antibiotics. So he and I are spending another Monday together at home. Hopefully, he will be able to go back to school tomorrow.

In between the sickness and snow, we have managed to fill our days with things...a meeting here and there, hanging out with friends, etc. This week we have small group, cub scouts, youth group, and company coming for the weekend. And, I am hoping to get some painting done in between all of it.

Last week Kyle decided that he was going to write a story so he sat down at the computer and began typing away. It's almost finished, just a little more editing. Once it is finished I will post his work. But here is just a taste of what's to come....

Kevin is a 13-year old, 5 foot 8 inch South African boy with brown, curly hair and big brown eyes. He is very kind and generous. He offers to clean the house, clean dirty dishes, wash clothes, and get water from the river. But there is still one problem in his life… he was separated from his twin sister when he was 4 and a half months old. It all started off when a couple named Monica, 26 and Martin, 27 had twins, a boy and a girl. They named them Kevin and Yoki. Unfortunately two hours after their birth Monica died and Martin was left to raise Kevin and Yoki alone.