An eventful Easter

I started my day out quite early for a Sunday morning. Our church had a pancake breakfast in the morning from 8:00-9:30. We advertised in the paper so we weren't sure how many people to expect, but we had a pretty good turn out. After the breakfast we went right into the church service. We had a lot of people especially kids. We didn't know how many kids to expect so we just took a wild guess. I was quite shocked when I saw all these kids coming and I started to panic because I was in charge of the craft and I only had 36 crafts. It did all work out because some of the boys thought they were to big to do the craft or maybe it was the hand of God:) However, we had quite an eventful time and the kids loved all the activities especially the egg hunt. I think we hid between 600-800 eggs.

After we got all cleaned up at church we came home and had lunch around 2:00. Tim had invited a single guy over that didn't have any family around so till we got more food together and got some steak grilled it was getting pretty late. We were done eating by 3:00 and then put the kids to bed and we got a nap too :) After everybody woke up around 5:00 we started dying eggs and having an egg hunt. Before we knew it it was passed dinner time and almost time for bed so we just had a bigger snack. What a day!

Blizzard of 2008

Tim shoveled the roof off and made a great big pile of snow. Michaela and Adalie were having fun jumping off the roof into the pile of snow.





Well, we really did a get a lot of snow over the weekend. Usually, they say we are going to get more then what we usually do, but this time they called it right. It started snowing Friday morning and didn't stop snowing till Saturday around5:00 pm. We set a new record we had 15.5" in 24 hours. I was trying to enjoy this storm, but was a little worried because Tim wasn't at home with us enjoying it. He had to go to work at 4:30am Saturday morning and the roads weren't to bad then, but till 2:00 Saturday afternoon they were very bad and we were under a level 3 emergency. Level 3 meant that you werent supposed to be out on the roads and if you were you could possibly be arrested. We were watching the news Saturday afternoon while Tim was at work and they were saying you must stay off the roads or you could be arrested and someone was even put in jail (probably acting stupid). That freaked Michaela out and she said,"Maybe that is what happened to Daddy because he still isn't home from work." He did finally make it home safely, but then he got stuck in the driveway. I should of had pictures because it was pretty bad. We worked at it together and finally were able to get the car out, but then ended up getting stuck again. What great memories :) The kids had so much fun playing in the snow except the younger ones had a harder time trying to walk because it was so deep. We did try to go sliding down our hill, but it didn't work to well. It was a storm that we probably won't forget in a long time.

This and that and nothing much

Well, I don't have a whole lot to say, but I thought I better update since it is probably about time.



Tim and I got to go to a Home and Garden show last week which was a lot of fun. I was amazed at how much time some of these businesses spent to make their booth look nice. Some landscaping businesses had real tulips and full size trees brought in and even set up retaining walls. It was like walking through gardens in the dead of winter. We also got to put our names in many drawings, but sad to say we didn't win anything:(



Question??? What all have you guys been cooking lately? I am looking for some great recipes for the crockpot. This week is a little bit slower then some which is very nice. I have at least one day where I will not have time to make any dinner and I thought maybe I should throw something in my new crockpot. Any suggestions?