Actually, we've been more sick than anything else.  Last week was a doozy!  Both kids got a virus that caused a rash, from what I can tell it was roseola.  Alicia also had strep throat.  I got acute pharyngitis and Mike got strep throat.  We were all miserable!

 

Luckily, we were well in time for Easter, although Alicia still has quite the cough.  This Easter our church brought in Cheri Peters for the whole weekend.  She spoke for vespers on Friday, church service on Sabbath, vespers Saturday and the Prayer, Praise and Pancakes breakfast on Easter Sunday.  It was wonderful!  I could just listen to her all day long.

 

Easter afternoon we went to my mom's house for dinner.  Yum!  She and Dan put out quite the spread, with all of us bringing a little something.  They BBQ'd some lamb with a really good berry sangria sauce.  So yummy!!  I brought a macaroni salad, there was fruit salad, potato salad, chips, pickles, olives, cookies, asparagus...oh so much food!  In addition to all of those goodies, I made a cake the kids requested.  My dad bought me a bunch of cake pans for my birthday and one of them is a really cute bunny.  So we had a bunny cake for Easter!  Absolutely adorable.

 

In other news, our fence is up and it is huge.  The neighbors decided that they wanted it to be 8 feet tall.  It feels a little like a slap in the face (are we really such bad neighbors?), but I told the kids that at least when they are getting in and out of the pool this year the neighbors won't be able to see them.  We had to have all of the jasmine pulled for the fence to go in and it looks so much roomier back there now!  I worked in the yard for a couple of hours today.  Mike got me a couple of mini rosebushes for Easter so I planted those and then raked the flower bed.  I pulled lots of weeds from the yard.  I'm getting it all ready for the insurance inspection!  Once the insurance finished their inspection, I will be putting up the pool and then planting a lawn.  I've also decided I'm going to put some wall planters on the giant fence and rig up a couple of retractable clotheslines.  I'm actually excited about my yard!

 

Now I just need to borrow a truck and finish getting rid of the excess stuff.