Arielle finds new photo opportunities

The children have named him Peanut

Arielle loves to photograph flowers

The elusive butterfly

Arielle had to rise early for this shot
Arielle, has found some great things to photograph at our new house. Our house backs to a small lake(they call it that, I would say a small pond) While we can't swim, boat or fish in this lake it does draw in some wildlife. So, I am sure there will be many more photos.

Friends

We are so blessed to have such wonderful people in our life. We hired a company to move our big furniture but we had plenty of boxes! So, on Saturday these wonderful friends showed up to help. Joanne, brought delicious chocolate chip cookies to share and she jumped in and started packing up the things we had left out. The rest of the gang moved boxes from one house to the truck, then into the new house. They were fast and good! We couldn't have done it without them. I didn't think about taking pictures until the last minute so there is one person missing from the pictures. Gary, gave us his morning then in the afternoon he went to help lay floors at another friends house. Thank you to everyone!

We have moved

Danielle painting her room. YELLOW
My friend Denise lending a hand
Andrew trying to understand how Michaelangelo did it!
Arielle gets to handle the power tools.
Well after 8 years of living in Chesapeake, we decided to make it our permanent home base! So we took the plunge and bought a house. I never knew how much work it was!. We spent 2 weeks cleaning and painting just a few rooms, still many more to go. Then came the big move. We have too much stuff. Right now we are in the middle of boxes upon boxes! But we did have new floors laid in the entire downstairs and I have my list of future home improvements. The list is VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERY long.
So here are a few pictures. As soon as we get settled I will take more.

Easter Day Celebration

After church on Sunday we went over to a friends house and had lunch and fellowship. The "children" (7 college students, 1 high schooler, 2 middler schoolers, and Danielle) had an egg hunt. Mary (our hostess) had a special egg hunt for Shoshannah. The college students were funny to watch find their eggs then add up the money to see how much gas they could buy:)It is so refreshing to spend time with these young people. They love the Lord and are so polite and respectful. Special memories and new friendships were formed.

Act 2

Andrew Easter Drama Act II

Acting in the Blood

It seems that the acting bug runs in our family or at least so far in our boys. Throughout his years in youth ministry, Craig Ellis was on the high school drama team and Childrens Ministry Drama Team. Well, then along comes Andrew. He started serving as a puppeteer with our preschool ministry, then learned how to run the sound board, and then lights for our Contemporary Worship Service, and started on the high school drama team. He had been training to be part of the gymnasitics team and the leadership asked him to think about joining the drama team as they needed more actors. Andrew prayed about it and the rest is history! This past year he joined the Children's Ministry Drama Team. Our Children's Worship Hour is called Kids Thang.
He did hear through the grapevine that his performance last week had given him an "OSCAR" nod!:)
I do not have a video of that performance but do have video of Easter Sunday.


Andrew Easter Sunday Drama

We are so blessed

Today we had the pleasure of attending our Easter morning services. For us as a family it is a day of service. Our older children served this morning in our Children's Worship hours.

Danielle is a memember of our Praise Team. I can't post video as it involves many children so you get a picture. Danielle loves to worship and it shows in her smile and praise.