Easter Weekend

As most of you probably know, I love to tell a story with pictures. J So, here is the “story” of Easter weekend as told by my camera. . .



Everyone in the crowded car headed to Pennsylvania to visit Grandma and Grandpa. Thankfully, Mikey was only in the car for 10 minutes. Things would have gotten “hairy” if we had to deal with his antics for the whole trip (pun intended.)



Sisters! Note the crammed trunk. We don’t travel light!



The boys enjoyed playing chess with our magnetic travel set. Six plus hours of traveling can be tiresome.



My camera had a little gap here. We arrived at my Grandpa and Grandma’s house safe and sound. We enjoyed relaxing and settling in for the weekend. That evening, we ordered Papa John’s pizza for dinner and spent time visiting together.



Saturday morning found me enjoying the screened-in porch while reading my devotions. Nothing spells vacation like chillaxing on Grandma’s porch!



During the morning, Daddy, Grandpa and I ran errands. We stopped at Bob Evans, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Wegmans, Sheetz, and Bob Evans again (they left out the directions for our Easter Feast. Those are rather important!) We also drove down to the marina on the lake to clock some distance for a run.

After lunch, Daddy and I ran 2 ½ miles down to the lake. I have only run twice this year, one mile in March, and one mile last weekend, so it was quite a gamble for me, but we took it nice and slow and I enjoyed myself.



We showered up and enjoyed a delicious dinner hot off the grill. The first home-cooked burger of the year! It was accompanied by potato salad and green beans.



After dinner, we had quite the time watching Ben and Josiah play chess. Josiah has become quite the chess shark and can be sneaky. In this picture, Ben is despairing because we are all laughing at a move Josiah has up his sleeve, and Ben can’t figure it out. It was a comical game!



Sunday morning my siblings and I had an Easter egg hunt! Here everyone is searching for the hidden eggs.



This year I won the unofficial contest of getting all of my eggs first. It may have helped that we only had 7 eggs each—6 little and 1 large—instead of the dozen-plus-one we’ve had in past years.



After we found all of our eggs, we opened the largest egg to find a clue to a hidden gift. Inside the eggs were slips with Bible verses about the Easter story. One word was circled in each verse and that was the clue to find our gift. My word was “linen” so I immediately searched in the linen closet and found. . .



. . .a yo-yo ball!



For breakfast we had mini cinnamon rolls, waffles with peanut butter and agave nectar, and orange slices. And I had juice, which I haven’t had since the beginning of Lent!



We ran into a wardrobe malfunction. The tie Ben had brought to wear was a bit too small! He decided that rather than wear a too-short tie, he would just go casual.



All of us lined up with our Easter baskets before leaving for church.



After enjoying an amazing Easter service at my Grandparents church, we came home to enjoy the Sabbath. Here Ben, Roma, and Rubia are reading and journaling.



Daddy is reading commentaries on the book of Acts in preparation for a Sunday School series he will be teaching in a few weeks.



Rubia drawing.



Josiah played with cowboys and Indians in the basement.



Ben read comic books. And I obviously went around and took pictures of everyone. J



Around 5:30 p.m., we sat down to our delicious Easter dinner, compliments of Bob Evans. We had ham, coleslaw, herbed corn, southern style green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, banana bread, and rolls with butter.



And for dessert, we had the twins baptism cake and lemon pie!



After dinner, we played outside in the fresh air and worked off all of that food! We love to play frisbee at Grandma’s house because their street is not busy and is the perfect place to throw frisbees back and forth. We had an interesting time trying to throw two frisbees among five players, especially after certain people with poor aim threw them into various neighbors’ lawns. J



Sadly, we had to leave bright and early Monday morning. We always love our time at Grandma’s house and practically count down the days until we can go back!



For lunch we stopped at a famous restaurant called “Tony Packo’s” in Toledo. It had been a long time since we had eaten here, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!



I ate a chili dog with spicy pickles and a side of Chili-Mac. It was SO filling!



Thankfully, we arrived home safely despite pouring rain the whole trip. We really enjoyed our relaxing weekend with Grandma and Grandpa, celebrating the wonderful occasion of Christ’s resurrection! Soli Deo Gloria!