Easter Weekend 2011

Our Easter weekend was fast and busy. We picked up Laura in Ponca early Saturday morning and headed south for Stacy's house. Of course the afternoon started off with a soccer game - this one was inside and involved Stacy and James Sr. That evening the guys attempted to get their boat to start. Stacy, James Jr and I drove over and got pizza and brought it back to the dock and we ate the pizza in the boat while enjoying the band playing at the cafe on the pier. The lightening show got pretty fierce so we went back home and James Sr left at 10 for another soccer game.

Easter morning most of us left the house at 5:30 am to attend the sunrise service and saw Jessica sing in the youth group. It was very nice - they have benches in a semi circle to sit on and the kids did a great job of singing. One of the youth gave the sermon and did a very nice job. After this service we stopped for doughnuts and went back to the house where Dennis and James Jr were just getting up. At 9 we went back to church to the service that James Jr was baptized at. After he and another young man were baptized the closing song was started and an elderly man came up and talked to the pastor. The pastor stopped our singing and said that the man wanted to be baptized. This gentleman had tears in his eyes and so did many in the audience - it was really a special time.

After church we went back to Stacy's house and had a barbecue and celebrated with James' family before heading home. The trip home set a new record - in slowness. My goodness all of Oklahoma was under construction and everyone in Kansas apparently was on the way home from Texas. We were at a dead stop a number of times and then other times never went over 10 mph. I did get a great picture of the trailer in front of us during one construction area: