Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Easter has always been one of my favorite times of year but especially now that I have kids. We had a great time this year. Samuel, of course, loves all of the traditions and it was fun celebrating John Michael's first. We try to incorporate the real reason for celebrating Easter too. On our way to church this morning, we started talking to Samuel about how it is so much more than hiding eggs and looking forward to the Easter bunny. He proceeded to tell us the whole story of Jesus and the cross and being raised from the dead three days later. I was pretty impressed and proud that we have such a great kids program at church. Even though we talk about these things at home, I can always tell that the details come from somewhere else.

We had fun dying eggs last night and hiding them this afternoon. We had a big hunt last weekend at my parents with all the cousins and the boys had a blast. Now, time for a nap!

John Michael on Top Samuel on Bottom

For those of you wandering still about the baby pictures below, John Michael is on the top and Samuel is on the bottom. They look so much alike!

School is Cool Performance

On Tuesday night of this week the first graders performed their debut of "School is Cool" at the Huntington PTO meeting. It was a great performance by those little guys. They sang songs like "school is cool", "face your fears", and "we love to read". Samuel had a great time and did a great job singing. John Michael bounced right along and enjoyed every minute. The bottom picture is at home after the performance just before having brownies and ice cream to celebrate a job well done.

Experimenting with Pics

Well, I wanted to play around with posting a picture and I thought this would be fun. See any resemblance in these 2Boys? Can you tell which is Samuel and which is John Michael?

Ever felt helpless?

This past Friday I was home all day with John Michael. Around 12:30'ish we went out and sat on the front porch for a bit. While we were out there I noticed our neighbor across the street, two houses down leave. I thought nothing of it. About 3o minutes later I went into John Michaels room and noticed I had not opened his blinds when he got up from his nap. When I opened them, I saw an enormous amount of smoke coming from somewhere around that same neighbor's house but couldn't tell if it was on the other side of the garage or where. I called our neighbor next door and told him to look out his window. He immeidately took off running over there because he knows the guy (they are both police officers and both work the night shift and sleep during the day). About that same time a passerby drove up also. The house was on fire! I continued to stand on my porch and literally watched this house go up in flames in a matter of minutes. Within 10 minutes the entire top of the house was blazing and all you could see was orange flames and black smoke. What do you do? I felt more helpless than I can ever remember feeling. I am watching this family lose everything they own and at the moment we don't even know if the guy is in there asleep or not. Thank God he wasn't. It was him that I had seen leave earlier to go and have lunch with his son at Huntington. Count your blessings everyday!