Easter

Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny visited our house during the night and brought a few "goodies" for the kiddos. We decided not to let the bunny go overboard, like he did last year, and so the bunny left several books on God and Jesus, a bunny for each of the kids, as well as the requisite chocolate bunny and some candy. He also left eggs around the house so the kids got to go on an indoor easter egg hunt. We were really glad he decided to leave them indoors since it was in the 20's this morning when we got up!


We went to a new church today and really enjoyed it. The church is large and has several thousand members - which I do believe were in attendance today. It was a big departure from my traditional, somewhat stoic United Methodist upbringing to having a live band and an 8 member vocal group, but in a good way. The music was very upbeat and reminded us of some recent "Gaither Family" tv specials that we really love watching. The kids were tapping their toes and clapping their hands - they were having a ball and were good as gold. We even got compliments from several of the "older" parishoners on how well behaved our children were. Now that's saying something! We took a tour of the church after the service and discovered they have a HUGE indoor playland for the kids, huge Sunday School classrooms, a couple of coffee/snack bars, etc.. We were also very impressed with the quality of their donuts and bagels - Panera Bread, no less! That'll definitely get us back in the door! LOL! The ministers were all very upbeat and non-condemning types and the senior minister was a pleasure to listen to. We also enjoyed the rich mix of ages in the church and how "alive" and growing it is. We will be attending next week, and if it goes as well in the future as it did today, then it looks like we may have found a church home.