Palm Sunday/Easter

Palm Sunday was a beautiful sunny day. It was a little chilly, but we were thankful that it was sunny and not rainy. During our church service, all the kids proceeded through the sanctuary waving palms in rememberance of when Jesus came into Jerusalem on the donkey while the crowds waved palms and shouted Hosanna! Here is a picture of Kason and Katie right before they paraded into the church:
After the service, an egg hunt was held for the kids. Kason was moving too fast for me to get a picture. He was trying to find one of 5 golden prize eggs. Which he was disappointed that he didn't find. But I did manag to snap a couple of Katie, although she wouldn't stop long enough to actually look at the camera. :)

She was almost looking into the camera in this one:

My sweet friend Pam snapped this one of Katie and I:

The following week on Easter Sunday, Kason woke me up at 5am with "Mom, I just threw up!" Not really the way you want to wake up on Easter morning, or any morning for that matter. Katie had been sick a few days before so it wasn't a huge surprise. Not good timing, though. I figured he was contagious, so we didn't think he should go to church. Very disappointing for Easter Sunday. But what can you do?!?! It just so happened that Kason had gone with me on Friday to the Good Friday service (which, btw, is not an easy service for a little boy to sit through!) So, this time it was just Katie and I who went to church on Easter Sunday. She was so happy to dress up in her pretty dress. GD snapped this picture of us before we left for church. Katie was not happy that she had to stand still for this picture, as you can tell by her face.

She really wanted to spin around so her dress would balloon out. So here is that picture. :)

Church was beautiful. We took home our Easter lillies to take to Oma's house. By the time we got home from church, Kason was acting and feeling much better. (We suspect it could have been the prospect of an easter egg hunt and birthday presents that sped up his recovery!) We got to Oma's and had a great visit with Oma, Art, Poos, Jim, Jamie, Shane, Mom and Paula. The food was so yummy! The kids, though, were anxious to finish eating and start the Egg Hunt. Our precious Aunt Poos had stuffed what seemed like hundreds of eggs and hid them all around Oma's house. Kason was especially anxious to find the golden egg so he could win the huge chocolate bunny! So after we finished lunch, off they went!!

There were so many eggs!!! Kason basket couldn't even hold them all! We all thought Kason did a good job of sharing with Katie and allowing her to get lots of eggs too.

After all the eggs were found, we all had to look at the loot!

Kason was absolutely thrilled to have found the golden egg and win the giant chocolate bunny! (Thanks Poos!!!)

This next picture of Katie totally cracks me up. She was totally in sugar stupor at this point!!! :)

After the egg hunt, Katie was happy to pose for a picture.

And so was Kason. Now it was time for him to open his birthday gifts. He got so much cool stuff!!! Luggage from Nona, Clothes and college fund money from Oma, an alarm clock from Jamie and Shane (Kason had been wanting one forever!) and a PSP game from Poos. And then the biggest surprise, a PSP game system from Uncle Rob!!!! Kason was so excited!!

Thanks, everyone, for the great gifts!! And Happy Easter!