Easter 2011

The Boyers came to visit again this weekend!  And when you're a family with 4 kids, and another family with 4 kids visits...

...it turns out to always be a party!

 Our Easter celebration was full of Joy!   After a happy worship service and a lively and loud lunch (with the bonus of Sarah coming over too!), we made Resurrection Rolls...

 ... and had a big Easter egg hunt!

 The kids all got some fun surprises...

 ...and some of the special eggs led to bonus prizes.

 When we sat down for dinner, Pete led both tables in song (seriously), and then we enjoyed our loud dinner.

After dinner we went for a walk,

 ... and enjoyed some playtime at home.

The only thing to put a damper on the day was the discovery of a baby bird in our birdhouse... which we feared had been abandoned by the mom.  There was much debate and discussion about what we should do to save the poor bird...  And many prayers were asked of God to bring that mama back.  And, to everyone's relief and joy, it turned out the mother did come back!  In fact, today we've seen a bluebird, a cardinal and a brown bird all going in to tend to that baby bird... and now there are 2 babies...  Not sure what kind of communal nest is going on in our backyard, but we're all just thankful that this wasn't the Easter When We Let A Baby Bird Die.

It was good to celebrate our Source of All Abundant Life on Resurrection Day... and to have all kinds of abundant life in and out of the house!  Thanks for coming, Boyer Family!