Easter

HE IS RISEN! One of my favorite things this Easter was the text message I received from my mama; which simply stated: "He is risen". What an excellent reminder that our Lord and Savior has fought the fight and has accomplished what He set out to do. The battle is won! Our price has been paid, we are now able to abide in His holy presence. I look forward to the day we will celebrate Easter with our Savior, in our true home, abiding with Him in worshipful praise. HE IS RISEN INDEED. Thanks be to thee oh God!

We had a fun Easter Sunday, we went to First Presbyterian in the morning and had to sit in the spill over section in Saint Andrews...not a bad thing, I am glad there were that many people to hear Dr. Robertson's sermon, it was excellent. Then we headed back to our house where I hosted my very first Easter lunch. we did not have a huge crowd, but it was a great one! Mama brought a "pig lickin' cake" which was to die for and Corey and Elise came with a green bean casserole, which was also scrumptious! I provided the ham, deviled eggs, potato salad and resurrection rolls. After lunch we took Easter pictures, hence the new photo in place of our blog "title" because I can't seem to figure out how to have both a picture and a title -- oh well. Later that night, Tyson watched Ella so that mama and I could go to Christ Church for evening worship, where the choir sang from Handel's Messiah, and Dr. Oliver spoke. It was wonderful getting to hear him again. All in all it was a full and wonderful Easter Sunday. However, I am sure it was not nearly as good as the one my dad had!

a little technical glitch

it drives me a little bonkers that i can't seem to remember to put the pictures into the blog in the reverse order, so just scroll up the screen to get the idea rather than down the screen.

ella is 8 months!

...or she will be tomorrow, but really who's counting? i am going to be at work tomorrow, so i wasn't going to be around to take the 8month pictures, which means i decided do them a day early.

the baby girl is growing entirely too fast, i think she doesn't realize she is supposed to be a baby. she is no longer interested in napping she would rather stand and jump in her crib or chew on her side rails. she is pulling up on things and transferring from one object to another and she does not want any help doing so. she hates to be held, but she LOVES to play hide and go seek, i hide and ella finds me, it's a pretty fun game. i am also starting to wonder if she might grow up to be a lounge singer. i got her a piano from a church consignment sale and she thinks it is the greatest. she laughs and sings and dances while she plays all sorts of fun songs on the piano. she is also forming an opinion about what she likes to eat and makes it very clear when she does not like something, she scrunches up her nose, closes her eyes and sticks her tongue out all while shaking her head back and forth(i'll have to try and get a picture of it). Not only is this week, ella's 8month birthday week, it is also spring break and we spent the beginning of the week at the lake. Ella had a ball, she had more attention than she has ever had and she soaked up every minute of it. she is quite the entertainer! when we were driving back from the lake ella picked out a birthday present, so we sent the picture to her daddy :)

oh and her tooth (the one i've been waiting on for months) is here, it's on the bottom, you can see it if you squint really hard, and it's partner is coming in right next to it...HOORAY for teeth, maybe she won't take after her momer