Friday, April 17, 2009

Our Easter Feast


We were invited to have Easter Dinner at the Turner's with the Pack's and had a fabulous time.


The kids entertained themselves well while dinner was being prepared

I didn't take very many pictures and the ones I took weren't very good but this was our Easter Feast. We had lamb, ham, potato casserole, asparagus, red potatoes, rolls, spinach & strawberry salad, lemon meringue pie, Texas Sheet Cake and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies.


Rachel, Ellen & Logan Going Goo Goo over Baby Lucy
This was our after dinner entertainment. It was well performed by the one and only duo "Lauren & Logan". They were hilarious, but because they were so good at dancing together. It was soooo cute!.

Our Rosebluff Easter Egg Hunt

This was the best Easter Egg Hunt Find. The site of a bird's nest is a true sign of Spring.
Rosebluff Children
Ashley, Amber, Duptanu, Ethan, Rachel, Amanda, Isabel, Matthew, Lauren, Olivia, Alex & Iliana(we were only missing Kyler & Duptanu's little brother)

Okay, Silly Picture!
We each hid about 30 eggs in our yards and the children went from house to house collecting them. We let the little ones have a head start and it turned out to be a great time.
Thank You Ms. Jennifer for putting this all together!



The Rosebluff Mom's - Elsa, Stephanie, Jennifer & Melissa Rosebluff Dad's - Steve, Bryan, Eric & AndrewCheck Spelling

Easter Pictures





On our way home from church, I asked the kids to not change out of their clothes right when we got home because I wanted to take a picture.
I did get what I wanted, but only if I let Ethan take a picture of me.
Well, this is what I got.

Easter Morning

It has been a little interesting around here lately. Easter just snuck up on us. Preparing for our Easter Camping trip and the rest of life didn't' leave us much time to prepare for Easter. Our Easter FHE was after Easter and the 2 dozen eggs I boiled, still aren't colored yet. When we tucked our kids into bed Saturday night, it was the first time they realized that the next day was Easter and that meant the Easter bunny was coming. {Good thing there is next year.} And well, sure enough the Easter Bunny came.



Monday, April 13, 2009

Double Lakes w/ the Turners

For part of our Easter Vacation we went camping at Double Lake with the Turner Family. Camping is always a lot of work but in the end so worth it. It only took us 1 1/2 to get there and this time we made it before sunset. Nothing like setting up a tent and preparing dinner in the dark. Steve made his special Dutch oven meal, only this time he added sausage and it was delicious. Our campsites were right on the lake and we had our own little dock to fish from, although the boys loved all the other docks more than the one at our campsite. We had fun catching lots of fish, playing with the fire, hiking around the lake, climbing trees, collecting treasures, trying not to fall in the water, observing wildlife, taking care of baby Lucy, taking lots of trips to the restrooms, eating good old camping food, going for a bike ride, collecting wood and we tried really hard to get a good night sleep. (But when the camp site next to us is full of foreigners and their 6 tents that pull in after midnight with screaming kids until at least 3am, it was hard to get any sleep.) That was just a little side note of the only thing that could have been better this trip.


Steve and Ethan working hard.

The girls and I working hard.
Lauren & Lucy - Lucy loved Lauren's pink heart bracelet and held on to it almost the whole trip.
Mama Rachel & Baby Lucy Our first incident with the water
Two cute little bugaboos The beginning of our pyromaniacsNight fishing from our dock.
Matthew & Isaac sitting by the fire Silly Lauren

Early morning fishing
Daniel & his caterpillar Snug as a bug Lucy
Playing with fire Ethan's FIRST fish
Fishing at our neighbors dock
Jonah moving on from the docks Second incident with the water
Ethan and his SECOND fish
Ethan and his THIRD fish
Ethan and his FOURTH fish Daniel and Lauren with their fire sticks
Matthew and his FIRST fish
The boys on the logs not the dock


Matthew and his SECOND fish


Getting more minnows

Ethan and his FIFTH fish
Daniel & Miss Lauren

Rachel roasting marshmallows just for fun.

Cute picture

These two had a blast together

Matthew just had to touch the turtle

Rachel was the proud carrier of Lucy


Matthew the proud carrier of Daniel

My two beauty queens, even when camping.

Daniel & Matthew

Some tree climbing on our walk around the lake

Water incident #3 actually wasn't so bad.

Cute Isaac and his shells

Sometimes I am amazed that when taking my own picture I actually get what I wanted in the picture.

Me and my Amazing Friend Cathy

Me, Steve and his BIKE.

The sign of a great vacation