HE IS RISEN!

What a glorious Resurrection Day. The service was tremendous with the brass prelude and accompaniment of the first hymn. We were personally blessed that the entire Beeli family went with us to worship. The service was called a praise service, and the music was geared toward that. One of the songs was included in our Via de Cristo weekend. I was especially moved by the music and the message: Surprise! He is Risen! I had thought the children would stay for the Easter egg hunt but the parents didn’t want to. We returned home by 11:30 and continued lunch preparation. The meal was delicious featuring spiral cut ham that we had bought. Pieder has been enjoying the tequila I had bought for him in Mexico. He has offered some to me several times but I prefer to abstain. After dinner we had some of the frozen margarita mix Evelyn had brought from our trip, so I tried some tequila in it. It was good but better without the tequila. We helped clean up and then went to the motor home for a nap. After that we took some onions to the neighbors who had loaned us their motor home. They were napping too so we didn’t get to talk with them. We then went to a local park where the younger children rode their ripsticks around on the concrete paths. Emily and the boys came later but didn’t get to play long because it began to rain. While throwing a Frisbee around, Andrew misjudged Noah’s throw and fell into the pond. Of course he went home soaked. We had hotdogs for supper, and Emily made sandwiches we will take to the Air Force Museum tomorrow. We played more cards in the evening after trying a bit of a movie, Man on Fire. Most of us didn’t like it and gave up after about half an hour of it. We broke up our party around 10.