Easter Fest & Spring Showers!

Woo Hoo! Spring is finally here!!! And along with Spring comes...EASTER! As you can see, we had a day of fun and games at our church "EASTER FEST"! John and I, along with my brother, Greg, and our daughter-in-law, Jessica, took the kids to enjoy all the fun activities. Lexi, Josh and Austin participated in the Easter egg hunt...they competed in all the games, such as ring toss, knocking down the cans, tossing the frog etc. As you can see from the pictures, they also enjoyed the giant obstacle course and slide (they HAD to do that one more than once!). We all had an awesome time and the kids took home a BUNCH of candy!

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Last Tuesday night, myself and all the girls I work with gave Julie Krist (our pastor's daughter) a surprise personal bridal shower. Early on after her engagement, we had all informed her that she would HAVE to have ALL of us stand up as bridesmaids in her wedding. Soooo..being the wonderful, considerate, thoughtful people that we are, and in order to save her time and to save us money...we all went to the resale stores and bought our bridesmaid ensembles. As you can see, for a total of about $70, we were able to put together a "lavishly lovely" bridesmaid's party! Entertainment was provided by "Elvira and The Human Ipods" (a.k.a. Louise, Dawn, Karen, Stacey), who performed amazing renditions of, "My Guy" and "Goin' To The Chapel". Believe me, this performance won't soon be forgotten! lol Because we discovered that Julie has a fear of clowns...we, of course, HAD to have a cake decorated with a clown bride and also a few clown cookies!

Seriously though, Julie received some beautiful nighties, a beautiful pair of "custom made" house slippers, and also some very personal "unmentionable" items! I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we haven't laughed so much or so hard in a very long time AND....a good time was had by all!