Easter Goodness!

 Easter services at Fellowship Church in Grapevine are always special.....

After the service there was a photo opportunity and we waited our turn.

Granddad stayed home but I was so happy to be back in church again!

Emmet Cahill did the special music and it was so beautiful after which Ed Young preached on Authority. I'm so grateful to be a part of  Fellowship.

Amber was the one who first attended here many years ago while I was still married to Jesse.

She was a young teenager and and started attending along with a few of her friends.

I followed her lead and later joined Fellowship myself.

Louis Dean and I are both members now and our best friends, Brenda and Billy, are as well.

Amber and Mike and all their children are involved with the ministry here and the kids attend camp and The Mix and other activities.

I used to serve on the hospitality team but now that Louis Dean and I are older, I'm not volunteering at this time - but I will again. It's great to attend worship but it's even more meaningful when you can serve as well.

After church I swung by the house to pick up Granddad and we went over to the Bells to spend Easter afternoon with them and Mike's parents and my youngest son Ben.

Little Miss Kailey was our beverage server and had prepared a drink menu and a Welcome greeting!

Amber had the Peeps out!

All the Bell girls have such elegant hands - just like their mother!

This one is Trystan's.

What a beautiful family!

Just look at this exotic hermit crab set up!

This big ole guy is two years old and Amber brought him home from the beach.

She's holding the tiny shell he started out and has increased his living space several times!

Candles lit and spring decor all in place.

I love their long dining room table which comfortably seated all 11 of us at dinner that day.

Everywhere you looked - there was something pretty!

Kailey played her trombone for me and then all three girls played a piece together they are working on for a spring concert in May.

Mike's mom, Lynn, is an excellent cook and baker and brought these delicious muffins!

I made the desserts and dilly bits!

Amber and Mike work so well together in the kitchen and it was all so GOOD!

Lynn took this pic of us at the table!

Later there was visiting and dessert before we finally cleared the table and prepared for the Easter egg hunt!

Harrison is just about the coolest young man ever!

Amber and Ben hid 15 Easter each of pink, orange, green and blue plus 4 special Golden eggs!

Each Bell had their own color!

Uncle Ben really knows how to hide them!

It was such a GOOD day!

My children of my old age.

We stayed a little while longer and then called it a day.

Such a wonderful time with such beautiful people!

I am abundantly blessed.

This Monday morning Louis Dean was up and already working in the back yard on setting some stones in place for a walkway by the time I got up.

I think he looked especially handsome today!

It's a good day when he can get out and play in the dirt!

Rain came in this evening and it will help settle the dirt around the stones.

My first job of business today was to do our taxes!

I use Turbo Tax and did it all start to finish in just over and hour's time!

I don't know where the rest of the day went!

Oh, yeah! Laundry, housework, and pulling weeds and hauling out trash!

I'm still excited to not be sick so it's all GOOD!