Easter and More

Well, we went to Georgia for Easter to visit my parents. We enjoyed being with them and the time seemed to fly. We were pretty busy during our visit. We arrived late Thursday night and pretty much went straight to bed. Friday, Lance had to do a little work from the house and Nick and I had to go shopping for Easter clothes. The boys were surprised by their Nana and Papa with a Wii to play with while we are there. No, it didn't come home with us (we have enough game systems here), but it stays at their house so they will have it to play every time we visit them. Everyone, including Mom and Dad, spent a lot of time playing that.

We went to Chili's for lunch on Friday to celebrate Mom and Logan's birthday. Friday night we stayed in because the weather was terrible. There were tornado warnings and the county's warning siren was even activated. We had to go downstairs to the basement and everything.

On Saturday, we went across town to visit with my grandmother for a bit. We also had lunch at an incredible Puerto Rican restaurant. I loved it! That evening, the guys went to an Atlanta Braves game. They had a great time! While they were doing that, my mom and I had a girl's night out and went shopping and went to dinner and shared baby back ribs.

Easter morning was really nice in that we went to Mom and Dad's church. It went well, service was good, and Grandmother ended up coming. After church we went back to the house, took some pictures, and packed up the car to leave. The trip home wasn't too bad, but about halfway it started raining and we drove in rain the rest of the way home. We got home around 10:00 p.m.

Servolution

Since our church, Healing Place Church, and hundreds of other churches around the world is involved in Servolution right now I thought I would get the family involved. For those that don't know, Servolution is a 7-Day event of serving our community in some way and for this event to become a lifestyle of being a servant just as Christ said we should be.

So, I thought that it would be nice to serve our neighborhood. Since our trash runs on Monday, when the boys got home from school that afternoon we put on our Serve shirts, got in the car, and I drove them around the neighborhood. What they did was they picked up the empty trashcans from the ends of driveways and pulled them up to the garage of the people's homes. There were a couple of people that were outside when the boys got out at their house so we just told them we wanted to pick up their trashcans for them.

The boys enjoyed doing it so hopefully it will be an experience that they won't forget. I want them to want to help others. Hopefully this is a start.