Easter Weekend

Our Easter weekend was a study in contrasts.  Saturday was jammed-packed busy, while Sunday was very sedate.



The girls and I made Spring bird nest treats

 Saturday we had lots of items on our calendar.  I had a morning church meeting, our Easter egg hunt was in the afternoon, and we had one of Dave's colleagues from work come to spend the day with us.  In Dave's office, there is a pretty steady stream of individuals from the India office coming to Chicago on work rotations.  It's sort of becoming a tradition to invite them to our home to socialize with our family and eat dinner with us. 

We invited Chaitu to spend Saturday with us for some good old American fun.  He rode the train from the city out to the burbs, where Dave and the girls met him for lunch at Chick-fil-A and introduced him to the Wii.  After lunch, the girls and I went to the Easter Egg hunt, while Dave took Chaitu to some batting cages.  While there Chaitu rode the go-karts, his, "first time every controlling a motorized vehicle!" 



Dave's a real tough guy with his pink bat



Chaitu driving his first "car"


After this, we all went indoor, glow-in-the-dark miniature golfing....yeah, I smoked everyone, can you say, "hole-in-one."

Next, we came back to our house, to color Easter eggs.  Chaitu and the girls enjoyed this.  Chaitu, jokingly told us he was going to "quit his job to paint eggs full-time."


Dave likes to color easter eggs too!





The girls taught Chaitu how to hula hoop!

 While they dyed eggs, Dave and I got dinner going.  Fortunately, I had done as much prep as possible the day before so we were able to get it all put together pretty easily.  We had a solid, meat and potatoes dinner (grilled chicken not beef) to give Chaitu a traditional American style family dinner.

We had a great time with Chaitu, we all had lots of fun, the girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and Chaitu said it was the best time he has had during this rotation---ahhh, so sweet.

I have lots of pictures from Saturday, but only 1 from Sunday.  I'd like to say it was because after doing all the "fun stuff" on Saturday, we spent Easter Sunday in solemn worship of the risen Lord.  Of course, if I said that, then I would just be trying to gloss over the reality.

The reality is that on Sunday, morning I got up early to shower.  While I was in the shower, the girls woke up and everyone went downstairs and broke into their Easter baskets without me.  This picture is posed because I wanted  a picture but was obviously too late. 

It did cross my mind to take a picture of everyone in their Sunday best, but forgot by the time we all rushed to get in the car to go to church.  Fortunately, and rightly so, the highlight of the day was our church service.  Both Dave and I taught lessons, our meetings were great, and our focus was on the Savior. 

Once we got home, I had a simple family dinner planned.  We had ham and the traditional fixings.  Unfortunately, once again no pictures.  Dinner was pretty somber and no one--particularly me, was in the mood to take pictures.  This was due to some, let's just say, "disappointing" behavior from my daughters coupled with the fact I was starting to feel sick.  But in the end, we finished the evening on a good note, hanging out together and eating "butter braids" from Ashley's school fundraiser for dessert.