Vacation!

We just returned from a wonderful, sun-filled, relaxing vacation in Garden City Beach with Jenny's mom, grandma, and sister. What a blessing to spend the week in a beachfront house with a backyard pool! Keaton loved both the beach and the pool and had a great time. Kipp split his week between Garden City and a conference in Orlando that he really enjoyed as well. On the way home we stopped in Columbus, NC to visit Jenny's grandfather, Pops, and see her dad as well.

Easter 09

We had a really fun Easter this year. About a month ago, I started trying to think of ways that we could make Easter a special time for our family. Christmas is always such a big holiday (and rightly so:), but I wanted to make Easter into a "big deal" for us as well. Jesus' birth is important, but so are His death and resurrection.
So Keaton and I have been telling the Easter story for the past couple weeks. We made a wooden cross and a tomb out of a plastic container with rocks glued on it and had paper cut-outs of different people who play a role in the Easter story. It's been fun to listen to Keaton's 2 year-old version of the story.
The day before Easter we had an Easter party and egg hunt at our house and invited some friends over to celebrate with us. It was a little wet outside, so we ended up hunting eggs in the basement, but no one seemed to mind- especially once they found the M&Ms inside their eggs.
Here are some pictures from Easter this year...