Easter Monday Musings

 

I didn't get around to writing a post yesterday for Easter Sunday.  It was a full and happy day...rejoicing in the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ...attending Sunday School and church, where our choir presented the Easter Cantata "The Power of the Cross".    Here is a video of the dress rehearsal.  We aren't professional or perfect, but if you listen to the whole message of the musical, you will find the marvelous Easter story from start to finish. I hope you will be blessed by this presentation.

After church we came home and prepared our Easter Dinner.  What a marvelous blessing to have our whole family together for the first time in many years...well, with the exception of our precious son Matthew, who is in heaven, and his wonderful wife Nicole, who still lives in Maine,  but to have their dear son Noah and his sweet fiancee' Dawn with us (for the first time) was a gift that was greater than anything I could have imagined.

(so happy to see their smiling faces in this one)

Here we have our friend, "Pamela #2", our sweet dil Rose, our son Benton, Dawn, Noah, Me, ("Pamela #1", 'cause I'm older) and  our son Scott.

And this one is the same except my hubby John took my place and I took the picture.

And then after dinner we started the great Easter Basket hunt.  This was Dawn's first experience with this family tradition, so we gave her a head start on the search.  

Then Noah joined her...

and soon they found their baskets...

And then Benton and Rose found theirs...

And last but certainly not least, Scott found his...

And a good time was had by all.

Even Lily Grace...not to be forgotten...

So that was our Easter Day!

I pray your day was filled with the joy of knowing that our Redeemer lives,

Job 19:25-27 NKJV

25 "For I know that my Redeemer lives,

And He shall stand at last on the earth;

26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,

That in my flesh I shall see God,

27 Whom I shall see for myself,

And my eyes shall behold, and not another.

How my heart yearns within me!"

To close this out I will include a few pictures of our Sand Hill Crane family, Mom and Dad and colts "Pat and Val", who continue to grow taller every day!

They came to the garden for a tea party again...looks like one of them has gotten tall enough to sip out of the tea cup for real! LOL.

They had a bit of a scary adventure today...somehow the colts got separated from the parents, and the parents went flying up into the air to go look for them...and then we noticed the two colts walking across the street and headed back over here to the pond.  The crazy goose who likes to stand out in the middle of the road was there, and he literally stood in the middle of the street to block traffic until the smaller colt, "Val", made her way across the road safely.  I didn't get a picture of that, but I sure wish I could have. This is another picture of him.  He is kind of a loner, abandoned by his siblings for most of the day and he hangs around the yard and often walks down the road or just stands there until cars have to honk at him. I guess he likes to just "honk" right back at them. He is a very strange goose, but today he was a hero.  Never underestimate the 'strange gooses' in your world. They just might save your life some day!

Anyway, a little later the Mom and Dad crane came flying back over to Still Waters Pond and reunited with their two lost children.  All's well that ends well.

And with that I will say goodnight!