Happy Easter

The boys and I had a wonderful Easter today. The boys were super excited when they got up but not over their gifts from the Easter Bunny but from finding the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid for him. Even Lane got into looking for them. I bet a whole 5 minutes went by before they even noticed they had gifts and candy. Lane did not quite understand that throwing the eggs was not good. Good think you boil the eggs first because when Lane would find one he would stand in the kitchen entrance and throw the egg like it was a ball. He thought it was so funny. He was also excited about the candy. He was trying to eat it with the paper still on!
They were looking for more eggs!After checking out their stuff we had breakfast and then headed upstairs to get dressed. They looked so cute in their Easter outfits.
Out of five pictures this was the only one where both of them were looking!

Cassie and I met up and went to Friends church again. It was a little different this time because they held church at the local civic center. There are always a lot of people at this church but they had done a lot of promoting in hopes of having a huge turnout. Well they did a great job. I'm not sure how many but there were a ton of people there. This place was packed. How amazing that in a place that held a country concert two nights before...was filled with people who were there to worship God.

The message was pretty amazing and the whole service I could feel the spirit of God. He was really touching my heart. I wanted to share a few of the verses that were talked about today. The message was about the power of lasting friendships and how God commanded that we "love each other in the same way" that he loves us. (John 15:12 (NLT)) Eph. 4:2 (NLT) says, "Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love." But my favorite of all is one that we have all heard, 1 Cor. 13:7, "Love always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres." For me the most touching part of the service was at the very end when I was brought to tears. One by one someone walked up and hung up their troubles on the cross. Pride. Fear. Addiction. Sorrow. Lust. Greed.

All of our sins were washed away because:I can't thank God enough for sending his son to die for my sins. Because God loves a sinner like me, I am forgiven. And all I had to do was ask him to forgive me and believe. How amazing is that!

After church we all went to eat. I had a really good steak which I have to admit is possibly the best meal I've have had since Aaron left. Maybe it's because I was so hungry but it was really good. Then the boys and I came home to take a nap. Lane didn't quite make it til home!

When we got up we headed to Walmart. The Easter Bunny had gotten the wrong light saber for Logan so we switched it out. The Easter Bunny is super busy so sometimes even SHE messes up! But no harm done they had the right one and Logan was super excited to play with it. When we walked out of Walmart there were some cart guys pushing a huge line of carts past my car. Well they started to curve...then curve some more...well instead of stopping they kept going and hit my car! They acted like they had not hit it and only gotten EXTREMELY close when they realized it was MY car and I just watched them do it. But sure enough when I looked there were marks. I drove up to the guys and told them I wanted a manager to look at my car. Granted it was not terrible and there were not dents but the marks would have to be buffed out and I wasn't going to do it nor was I going to pay for it. They were not happy with me and I explained that I knew it was an accident but accident or not...it was their problem to fix. Management didn't exactly come out apologizing. In fact no one has told me they are sorry for what happy. They did fill out an accident report and told me that their insurance company should be contacting me tomorrow and they would pay to have it fixed. Like I said, it's not that bad and simple buff job should take care of it. But it still irritated me all the same. My car is super dirty so please look past that! It is breakup and the roads are covered with water, dirt, and rocks. So washing my car right now would be pointless. But in this picture you can see the 3 little scuff marks along the bumper.
But anyway, at least they are going to take care of it...and I might get a wash job out of the deal! Goodness knows I need it! Just didn't want to do it yet because it will look like this two days afterwards! Well the boys are in bed and I'm about to kick back watch some TV. Only about 10 more weeks til Aaron gets home!!!!