Easter Egg Hunting!

We got invited to a friend's house for an Easter Sunday egg hunt and dinner. It was a lot of fun and we took lots of pictures.



Elisa and I in the yard during the hunt.

The kids from the two families counting their booty after opening up eggs.

The cake that our friends made for Easter and decorated.

Elizabeth LOVED the old doll house in the house.

Getting instructions and rules for the egg hunt.

All the kids involved in Easter Festivities - in their Sunday dress.

The Johnson kids before Easter Dinner!

Elena and Sarah.

Decorating the Easter bags to collect eggs.

Family Tradition

The weekend of Easter, it's a tradition in our house to do a sunrise devotional. The last two years, this has been a chilly affair. This year was no different. We gathered on a hilltop (which happened to be the soccer fields) and open 12 eggs with messages and objects related to Easter inside. Afterwards, the tradition is to eat breakfast at Ihop. We put in a few pictures to look at.

Elena's Spotlight!

This post combines two things that Elena has done recently. One is a talent show in which she played the piano for the crowd at her school. She did REALLY well. The other is when she won second place in a creative writing contest at her school for a story she wrote. We are really proud of Elena!

This is Elena reading her story in front of the school.

Elena had a scrapbook party recently with two of her friends from church. Elisa opened her scrapbook supplies completely to them and watch them have a blast. Here are a few pictures from the event.

Christmas Eve dinner

We had a dinner on Christmas Eve. We cooked filet Mignon steaks and jumbo shrimp on the grill and had baked potatoes and corn on the cobb. It was great having Gramdma and Grandpa and Aunt Marci with us for the holiday. We loved that they came out here. We sure did miss our other family in Utah, San Diego, Arkansas and Spain and wish we could see them. But they know we LOVE them!!

This is a letter that Elena wrote to Santa telling what she wanted. It was cute because she asked him questions and he answered her!

Family Christmas Pageant

Our family had a family home evening activity on Christmas Eve in which we ended with a Christmas pageant. We acted out all the parts. I was the narrator and cameraman. Here is Andrea being an angel.




And here is Elena, as Mary, riding the "donkey" (a.k.a. Grandpa). Not shown here is Elizabeth, who portrayed Joseph.

Kevin and Elisa were Shepherds seeing the angel (Andrea).

The Angel... proclaiming tidings of great joy unto all people...

Gifts of gold...

Three wise men going to see the newborn king and bearing gifts.

Church Christmas party

We went to our church Christmas party the week before Christmas. Santa came and we got these pictures of the girls.

Elizabeth wasn't too sure about this guy with the white beard. But she warmed up later.