The Powers' House: Easter 2010

Today was a great day. It started off a little rough when I spent the better part of an hour looking all over the house for the new sandals that I bought yesterday to go with my Easter dress. I dug through trash, searched every corner, in the back yard. Finally had to go to church wearing black sandals that DID NOT match. As frustrated as I was, I decided to keep things in perspective and not ruin the celebration of our risen Savior over a pair of shoes. (Felt like an idiot when we got home tonight and I found my sandals under a throw pillow on the couch!)

Church this morning was powerful. I don't think I've ever been a part of such a great Easter service. The experience from beginning to end was excellent, moving, inspiring, beautiful, and rich with the presence of God. I meant to take my camera, but the shoe incident caused me to forget. Had a good time during youth with my high school girls small group. We somehow managed to connect Harry Potter to the story of Jesus in a somewhat strange, but relevant way. I did have to try very hard to stay on topic at one point when a debate about Harry Potter vs. Twilight broke out. (But while we're on the subject -- and someone will probably stone me for saying so but -- Harry Potter is in a totally different league than Twilight.) All that to say, our time at church this morning deeply impacted both Aaron and I.

After church we went through the drive-thrus at both Taco Cabana and Wendy's (I never go two places). But today. I felt like a bad mom/wife/person doing fast food on Easter, but I didn't have the energy to cook. Planning ahead is on my agenda for next year's Easter lunch.

The next couple hours, we sat around and totally vegged. Aaron played Madden on the Xbox. Carson took a nap. And Abby and I swung (swang? swinged?) on the swingset in the back yard. Then went shopping. Then headed over to Jason and Natalie's for Easter dinner.

We had a great evening with friends and family, eating ungodly amounts of food, laughing, talking, and celebrating. It was great! The kids also got to have an Easter egg hunt, and Abby was lucky enough to be the one to find the coveted golden egg with $5 in it. Carson was thrilled that he found an egg with four quarters in it and was convinced that was WAAAY better than (or at least just as good as) a $5 bill because there were four of them. We all had a lot of fun. Thank you so much to Natalie and Jason for your amazing hospitality, both today and always!

All of the following phots were taken by Abby this afternoon. I let her take my old D70 over to Jason and Natalie's to take pictures. She did pretty well! She told me in the car on the way over there, "I'm gonna start saving up my money so that when I'm 10, I can buy me a camera like this [a DSLR]." It made me smile.