Easter 2010

finding Easter baskets!

ephram's favorite thing was the grass!


and the slinky:)


braden couldn't wait to read kinsey and ephram their new books!



they ate LOTS of candy


ready for the hunt...














we hid a TON of eggs!


cailey thought this was a gummy worm and kept
chewing and chewing until she finally asked me about
it...it's a toy:)


time for egg decorating



we used a new masking tape technique on some of them this year...
we love experimenting and they turned out great!




all the kiddos with Nonny












braden LOVES to help Nonny with anything and everything!
here he was peeling veggies.


hanging out with poppy


Ephram and I hung out for a long time in the evening singing,
tickling, and saying rhymes. He LAUGHED and LAUGHED and LAUGHED...
there is nothing sweeter to me than the sound of a baby's laugh!

Poor Brian was sick today but on our trip up here he was able to tell the kids all about Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and of course Easter Sunday! Today we spent the day with Nonny and Poppy hunting for baskets and eggs, dying eggs, riding bikes, going on walks, taking a trip to the bookstore with Poppy, playing volleyball, squirting water at each other, and eating together.

I was able to go on a walk with Cailey and Braden while Kinsey was napping and had a great talk with them. I cherish sweet moments of heart to heart talks with them! They were both talking about what God wanted for their lives and how they would pray for His will to be done. Right now they both say they want to be doctors but are praying that God will change their hearts if that's not His will.

Cailey says she would like to have eight children with one being named Leah. She wants four girls and four boys (four adopted and four biological). She would also like to be a teacher. She's not sure about the other names but will ask her husband what he thinks:).

Braden would like to be a daddy after he meets a wife and goes to college. He would like to have three children and pray to God to see if he should have more than that. Braden likes the names Benjamin (Ben for short) and Katherine. He doesn't like blood right now but is praying that if God wants him to be a doctor than he'll not mind it. He wants to save his whole heart for the woman he plans to marry.