Happy Easter!

We went to my Mom and Dad's for the Easter weekend.  Josh helped Dad put steel on his truck garage and get ready to put steel on the old farrowing barn.  They also did some work on one of the side walls of the farrowing barn.  They didn't finish all that they wanted to.  It was poor weather for working on roofs...chilly and windy, so we plan to go back on Memorial Day weekend to do some more roofing work.

Dad and Josh working on the truck garage.

Johnny and Lu Lu loved looking at the cows.  They are all up in the yard for calving and they both loved watching them and spotting the new baby calves.  We also found a baby kitty while we were there.  Mom said it's since disappeared, so it must have just shown itself for the kids.  They both just loved the baby kitty!  He was a good holding size, but not much fun to actually play with.  Johnny named him "Rock-a-bye-baby", Rocky for short.  What a silly boy!

John and Lu watching the cows.

Lu Lu

Johnny and the bull

Lu Lu and Rocky

Johnny holding the "Baby Kitty"

Lu Lu crawled into the toy box

What a cutie!

Dad gave us a bunch of T-posts and 2 pig huts to use for our chickens. We are building two pens in the pasture, one for some of the laying hens and one for the new laying pullets. We're hoping they can do some tilling for us in a spot that we plan to plant to asparagus. He also gave us some 50 gallon barrels that we plan to modify into cooling tanks for butchering chickens. As you can see we have lots of building projects to work on this coming weekend.

We brought the kids to Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday. It started at 9pm and was 2 1/2hrs long! It was nice to go though. It's a great end to lent and the waiting of Jesus rising after being in the tomb for 3 days. It's also good to hear all those old testament readings about our history. Josh and I got very tired and achy holding two sleepy/sleeping children.:) They did really well though!

Johnny and Lu Lu all dressed up

Quick family pic before we went to Mass.

The Easter Bunny came to Grandma and Grandpa's house. The kids had fun finding the Easter eggs and baskets. John was so excited looking for them! He would find the eggs and then dump the jelly beans into an ice cream pail. Lu Lu just liked playing in the colorful jelly beans in the pail. We all have been enjoying way too much candy this week. Johnny is always asking for more.

Lu Lu's a ham!

Easter Eggs!

Johnny found Lu Lu's basket for her.

Another One!

And another...

My basket's name tag!

Johnny found his basket

Johnny Dancing for Candy!

Do we have to eat breakfast???  We just wanna eat candy!

I guess...If we're having cheerios.

Lu Lu has to hold all her stuffed animals at night.  Josh took this one.

It's been chilly and windy here this week. I've been getting a lot ready for Vacation Bible School. I'm hoping I can get most of it ready before the really nice weather kicks back in. We've been doing a few odds and ends projects outside in the evenings after Olue goes to bed. We're always out just a little too long for Johnny and have to listen to him complaining about being cold...He gets over it once we get inside.:)

We have a new niece!! Susanna was born on Saturday to Jake and Ruth. We can't wait to see her. The pictures that we got are very cute!!! It makes us excited to hold our own little baby and me look forward to the end of the pregnancy...To be only poked at from the outside by my children and not from both the inside and outside! The baby likes to push really hard against John and Olue when they are sitting on my lap. Comfortable snuggle time isn't as comfortable anymore:).

Susanna