Because of Jesus, we get to party!!

Good Morning and Happy Easter to everyone!! Our day was a busy one, with so much fun packed in every minute.



No sleeping in with a 6 year old in the house. Joey checking out his basket at 7:01 am.


We had a egg hunt in the house. Rain today, all day. I wrote little clues on pieces of paper and put them in an egg with a chocolate candy. Ok so we really made him work for his surprise at the end, but he had a blast.

I asked him to get in his sock drawer and that started the fun.

Clue #1: Thyme to cook with Rachael Ray, what do you think she might say?


This lead him to the kitchen, answer EVOO.

Clue #2: Mommy will ask you every morning "Where did you put your shoes?"



Answer: pockets on the inside of his closet door. Egg in his shoes he was wearing today to church.


Clue #3: The sky is dark, the moon is out. With a hug and a kiss it's time to say- Goodnites.



Answer: Bathroom, for Goodnites Pull-Ups.
Clue #4: Arm, Arm. Leg, Leg. Belly, Belly.

Answer: back to kitchen, this time to the drawer in the fridge that holds his growth hormone.

Clue #5: The living room is not the only place to watch a movie.

Check out Joeys cool "home shoes" as he calls them. Ok when my 6 year old can almost fit into my shoes, there is something wrong there!!
He has taken them over, as his own.



Answer: Mommy and Daddy's room. Leon and Joey had just watched Alvin and the Chipmunks in our room a few nights before.

Clue #6: My how fast the 30 minutes of play time goes by.


Answer: Computer!! Hidden under the mouse pad, and so excited about a surprise!!

He thought he was just looking for eggs!!

He has wanted the Lego game for so long. We had downloaded the Demo, and decided it was ok for him. Joey will still only get his 30 minutes of computer a day, so I'm sure he will spend it on this game for a long time.

Ok so I got brave and we tried something new. Joey dyed eggs for the first time. Not as much as a mess as I thought it would be. He had asked about dying eggs, because some other children at school had talked about it.


Joey's first egg, I love the little finger prints left behind.


Hard at work, notice he has eggs in every color.


Such a colorful hand!! Things went pretty well we started with 12 eggs, sadly he ended with 10.



The two that didn't make it. Both of them took a fall to the floor.

We went over to Aunt Louise's for lunch. It was pretty tasty, chicken, mac and cheese, veggies and dip, etc. Shelby made cupcakes and cookies.

Joey got to hunt plastic eggs outside for a few minutes, while the rain took just a little break.


A special gift from Aunt Louise! Although he said to her: "Wait, wait, wait, you made a mistake, I can't have this..." Aunt Louise let him know she had talked to me about the age on it, and I had said it would be ok. As you can see, he was happy with that!!

He spent the next several hours putting the thing together, never got upset, he just kept working on it. Pretty cool!!

A final picture with Tina and Shelby. Then it was time to come home. From 7:00am to 7:30pm it was all about Easter fun. What a great day. He even got a few Easter eggs at church.

Before he went to bed we talked about the reason we have Easter. He said he knew "because Jesus died for us, and rose up again. So now we get to party."

So from our house to yours, we hope you to got to party!!

Dear Jesus,

Thank you for our day. Thank you for my basket, candy, my game, my bionicle. Thank you for helping me be a good listener. Thank you for the stuff you did on the cross, and you got to rosed up. Amen
Joey Easter 2009