Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to our readers! We hope each of you have had an enjoyable and blessed Holiday!

We were part of the Kuznia clan this weekend. We joined Vernon, Allison, Ocean and Ezra for their Easter festivities!

On Saturday, we tagged along on their morning Easter Egg Hunt, which was actually held at the chiropractic school which Vern and Dave attend. It drew in hundreds of people! Below are some pictures from the day. It was a lot of fun to spend time with Ocean and Ezra and see all the kids having so much fun in sun! It was a gorgeous sunny day!

The day started with face painting!

Ocean showing off her glittery hopping bunny!

Ezra looking out at his field of eggs.




So this video is a little humorous. Dave wanted us to record the hunt take place, just to see what happened. First, let me explain how the Easter egg hunt actually started. There was a man on the loud speaker coordinating everything. He was supposed to yell "Ready, Set, GO!" when it was time to start. Well there was still about 4 minutes til the actual hunt was supposed to take place.. Kids were divided up in age groups, a huge square of grass per group. We were hanging out with Ezra in the 3-4 age group. So this family standing next to us was messing around with their 3 year old. They were saying "1-2-3 Start!" to him, and laughing about it when he actually ran out!! This of course created a massive chain reaction. Before you knew it, hundreds of kids in all of the age groups flew into their fields to fight for their eggs. It was chaos. So, I was a little thrown off at starting this video because I missed the "official" start. But I brought you to speed on the point in time when I did start taking the video. Then...I got lost. Literally. Hey, it's hard being short and in a mob of people. It took me a few minutes to find my peeps again!!

A pose with the Easter Bunny.

Poor Ezra was wiped out by the end of the day.

Today we headed to church this morning. This Easter was my turn for attending worship service, so we picked out a new church to visit just a few miles from our apartment. (There are actually quite a few Lutheran churches right near our place, so it's very convenient.) The service was very nice and full of color! It was the first Easter service that I've seen a huge array of spring flowers at! Normally I'm used to seeing white lilies in memory of loved ones, but this church did something really neat. They had the white lilies in memoriam and had colorful tulips, lilacs, irises, daisies, gladioli, etc in honor of living loved ones. I thought this was such a great idea. A lot of families were honoring their moms and grandmas who were probably at church with them. It was just so refreshing to see the church full of such life and color in the flowers! After all, Easter is to celebrate life!

After church we headed over to the Kuznia's for Easter brunch. It was so delicious Allison!! Thank you guys so much for having us again! We really enjoyed ourselves. After brunch, we played games with the kids and just relaxed. Later in the afternoon, Vernon, Allison, Dave and I went to see Adventureland at the theater. Allison's mom was visiting from Fargo, so she volunteered to take care of the kids while we were gone. All in all, it was a very relaxing and fun Easter for me. For Dave, on the other hand...he has 3 more final exams tomorrow, some more on Tuesday and just one on Wednesday. Poor guy. We got home and he immediately left to go study with Vern. I won't see him again until Wednesday probably. Alas...at least we have his spring break to look forward to in the coming week!

Again, wishing you all a HAPPY EASTER SEASON!


- Elise