Saturday and Easter Sunday

The house looks great! Mom, Aunt Phyl, and Joanne (and Oma and Opa) spent so much time on it! They re-did the hard wood floors which in words, does not sound like much, but is a tremendous task. They also worked on our yard – front and back. It all looks so good. And it is so good to be back home. We got the kids baths and in clean clothes. Erich and I also got washed up. Erich and Lori went and got the dogs. Maelynn is afraid of them. She is curious about the cats, but not too sure on the dogs. We made a doctor’s appointment for Maelynn for Monday at 10 AM. Maelynn and I got a good nap in. Logan didn’t sleep at all. Erich got about 1.5 hrs. The Gerwe’s brought us a very nice dinner on Saturday. We invited them to stay and eat. It was great to see them and baby Ryan, and Kathryn. Logan sat for 2 minutes before they got there and was out. He didn’t even wake up when the dogs barked at the door! Paul ran to the grocery for us. We are just not coherent enough to function much. Unfortunately, we did not make it to Easter Vigil mass. This makes me sad as I missed the RCIA group being brought into the church. However, we were in bed by 8 PM. As we are lying there, a neighbor starts up a weed eater. Erich groans. I remind him it is still day light out. The kids woke up in the middle of the night. They were up for about 4 hours. We watched TV and ate ‘breakfast’. Logan thinks he is up for the day. Erich is still having trouble with his equilibrium. I also think it is smart for only one of us to be thoroughly sleep deprived and not both so I let him sleep. I did get them both back to sleep for a few hours.

We made it to church on Easter Sunday. It was really great. She looked beautiful in her purple Easter dress. The boys looked handsome. Maelynn did really good during church. She fussed quite a bit afterwards. She was tired and there were a lot of people walking around. The Cooper’s gave us some beautiful gifts. They hand stitched a baptismal cloth for Maelynn, Easter bags for each of the kids, and a picture box with the Red Thread saying on it. Family Easter was at Neil and Kelly’s. They do a great job and it is always so nice. It was very low key this year, but it was perfect for us being really brain dead! Thank you! The kids enjoyed the Easter egg hunt and the food was terrific. Then off to Karen and Phil’s. It was great to be so busy and force us to stay awake. Again, great food and great company. Then we went home and crashed. I had to convince Logan to go back to bed at least twice in the middle of the night and we let Maelynn cry herself back to sleep once. Now we are on to Monday.