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This is just too precious not to share with you! Enjoy! See the palm branches and Jesus riding on a donkey? This is Jesus on the cross and the yellow clouds and brown lightning. This is the stone rolled in front of the tomb. This is the blinding light and the empty tomb. This is the people seeing the risen Jesus! And this is Ben's Easter Egg truck! Happy Easter!

Okay, so for the last 2 and a half years we have been sleeping with our mattresses on the floor. The reason being that we needed to refinish and patch the gouges that were made during the move back from IN. So, we thought, "let's not put the bed up until we fix it'! Ha! So there it set all this time! Finally last week, I said, "Brendan, can't we just paint it!?" We had wanted to strip and restain it, but that was a HUGE mountain! I told him I would help sand it and we could just DO IT! SO we did, and we finished it yesterday! It's such a wonderful feeling to have it done! It used to be a blondish stain, but I never really liked the color a whole lot(we did it ourselves). I really like the black, it's like having a whole new bedroom! I have to admit that it was weird sleeping up off the ground. I did NOT sleep very well last night! haha We had some friends visit from IN. They went to Sunrise Chapel with us. Kenny and Anna were having kid...

My boys love their cousin Kaelin! We had Kaelin over for most of the day yesterday and they just played and played! Here is JJ pushing her on the swing! We had a tent set up in our backyard so they were playing "animals" in it! Doesn't that look fun? Time to color!

I am so glad that my children have had a chance to know their Great Grandparents. (the picture above is Brendan's Grandma Martha cleaning strawberries!) I love having my Grandparents here in the winter months, but they are leaving today, so we went and said goodbye last night. I took some cute pics of them with the children. Speaking of the children, I am constantly amazed at how cute my kids can be. Sorry, I AM biased! Like when Sam tells me in the sweetest voice, "Mommy, I'm putting my feet on your seat!(in the van, which he is not supposed to do!), it is so hard to be upset with him. Or when he makes up his little songs like, "I'm a little cloud for Jesus." Or when JJ (6yrs) just wants to "Cuddle" with me, I could just die and go to heaven, it's such a wonderful feeling! He also loves to draw pictures for me. Or when Ben, out of the blue, looks at me and says, "Mommy looks pretty"(which he does quite often), my heart just melt...