Easter and more

 It's early Sunday morning and I can't sleep!  I decided to get up and start this blog post instead of lying in bed stewing over things I can't do anything about!

First off, I want to follow up on Anthony and Dick's attempt at getting that big, dead tree limb down.  In my last post I shared a video of their fail.  However, on Saturday they tried again - and succeeded.  When Dick showed me the video afterward, I cracked up!!  Lori was taking the video, and you gotta hear what she said at the end!

Can you believe that in the process of getting that big rope up over that limb, my almost 76-year-old husband was up on this ladder??

 It was a beautiful day, as you can see.  Lori pulled out their blow-up canoe and Hunter had some fun on the pond!

Sunday morning Easter service was joyful!  My choir sang “Glorious Day.”  Miss Vicky completed the three-part object lesson for the kids.  They each now have a mountain with a cross on top, a tomb, and a stone with which they can remember and tell the Easter story.  Solid wood carved and finished by men in our church and stones from a local landscaping business who donated them when they heard what they would be used for.

Anthony and Lori came for Easter dinner.  Hunter was delighted to discover that he is now taller than me!

Anthony took this selfie of our Easter dinner.  We did not have our typical Easter menu this time. We decided to go with food we all like, even the boys - Jamaican rice and peas, curried baked chicken thighs, and roasted brussel sprouts.  Later we had ice cream sundaes with the brownies I had made. 

Hard boiling eggs and painting them was next, also filling plastic eggs with candy and money.  

Anthony and Dick hid the eggs outside, then the hunt was on. 

I loved seeing pictures of some of our grandchildren that we  couldn’t be with for Easter.  So dear to my heart!

On Tuesday we went to the courthouse to apply for new passports.  Don’t we have a beautiful courthouse in Bellefonte?  The whole town is built on steep hills.  We walked down the street from our car when we arrived, but Dick walked up that hill afterward and picked me up at the bottom.

My flowers are slowly blooming.  We had two extremely cold nights this past week, and Dick put tarps over most of them.  

How about that landing of Artemis II??  Breathtaking!  I was especially intrigued because they were coming down right where I had first seen the Pacific Ocean from the Cabrillo National Monument at Point Loma.  

And now for some more Ketsi love.  She surprised Destiny the other day with a little giggle that just rolled out of her!

And this!!  I feel like she’s looking right at me!

And now it’s Sunday afternoon, after church we drove to Manheim to visit Grandma Arlene and then Bjorn and Jess and the boys.  We just arrived at Pleasant View Retirement Community.  I’m going to post this without much editing!