Our Palm Sunday weekend

 We woke up to a windy freezing cold Saturday morning in Pennsylvania!  Our Easter egg hunt day!  Ugh!!  They had hit 80 degrees on Thursday!!  At least it was sunny!  

Also I did not mention in my previous post that Dick was feeling increasingly worse as we flew home on Friday.  Constantly running nose.  Actually sometimes a bleeding nose, which is not uncommon for him.  And his ears were killing him.  He finally took his hearing aids out at some point.  He woke up Saturday morning with a very rough sounding voice.  But bless his heart, he was in charge of setting up the sound system outside the church for the egg hunt, so he went there to do that.  (I will add that he went to Convenient Care on Monday and was diagnosed with and treated for an ear infection.) 

I dressed like I was going sledding!  I hate being cold.  As expected, it was a fun event.  Here are some pictures.  

Getting the instructions.

We had the littles at one spot.

The elementary kids were in front of the house, which we call "the annex." (It holds our church office and the classroom for the teens and tweens.)

The older kids were behind the house.  They were required to use grabbers to pick up their eggs.

We were back at home just in time to watch Sophie run the 100 meter and later the 200 meter.  I just love watching her on my big computer screen.  As she stood there waiting her line-up I reached out and touched her.  She seemed so close, and I miss her.  She has been recovering from two ham string injuries, so her times aren't what she would like.  Lisa was coaching at her own high school track meet, so she had asked me to record Sophie's events.

These amazing pictures were from the coach's Instagram post. 

Sunday morning was our Palm Sunday celebration.  The kids processed in waving their palm branches, and later in the service they sang with the choir, a song titled "Wave Your Palms."   There were quite a few choir members and children missing for whatever reason.  Also, next year I'm gonna tell the choir they can sing without their music if the kids can, hahaha!  I guess it would help if I wouldn't go away the week before Palm Sunday.

Out in Portland there was a big event!  Christy and Alana took the kids to a real live Blazers game!!  And they won!  We were hearing the anticipation of that game all last week while we were there!  

We had BLTs for lunch on Sunday, because we're trying to use up stuff from our freezer (the bacon).  But the tomatoes didn't taste that great, so they were a bit of a disappointment.  Nothing like fresh tomatoes. 

Monday I was back to my normal routine - grocery shopping, cooking, picking up Hunter and Austin, and taking them and the food to their place. I made chili with all the fixin's and cornbread muffins.  I gained a pound from eating some of it!

Dick was working on job applications.  There is one at Sam's Club that he really wants.  

I also had a long phone call with our daughter Miki in Sweden.  She had a health scare last week.  I miss her so.  I so wish she could come here for a visit again.  She sent me a video of a song her gospel choir will be working on.  The choir director told her that when she came across this song she immediately knew that Miki would be the soloist because the lyrics were so aligned with Miki's testimony.  I'm so thankful she has that choir!!