Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone!!

One of our good friends (Dan) posted this on his site this morning and I loved it so I thought I'd share it with all of you.

Easter reminds us that even though injustice may run rampant at present, even though it appears that darkness is pervasive and final, we know God is working, that His love is greater and that resurrection is real. As morning came on the third day a sun-cast freshness burst on the scene to reveal a subversive hope that thrusts us into a new story, one that rests on the work of Christ, a grassroots grace that upends every injustice. Through the brilliant light of the resurrection we can walk in newness of life. In a time when the Caesars of our day still claim to rule and injustice seems commonplace, the revolutionary hope of new life springs up in our hearts as we embrace the promise of Christ and experience the call of an extreme God to believe.
Brian Orme <http://www.relevantmagazine.com/newsletter/link.php?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brianorme.com&EncryptedMemberID=OTkyNw%3D%3D&CampaignID=155&CampaignStatisticsID=101&Demo=0&Email=taubensee@shaw.ca> quoted at Relevant Magazine www.relevantmagazine.com

To be honest, today began as a Happy/Sad day for me as I remember my Grandpa. This was his favorite holiday and I couldn't help but reminisce this morning on all the wonderful Easters that we spent with him. We would traditionally go to my Grandparents house after church and have Easter dinner. All of us kids could hardly eat as we knew that outside, hidden all through the yard, was a paper bag with our name on it filled with goodies. It was always a race to see who would find their bag first. I think I was most often the last. I would find everyone else's but mine...or maybe it seemed that way to everyone. I had a few moments of tears today and they started with sadness and quickly turned to joy as I realized that today, my Grandpa is in heaven and for the first time he is celebrating his favorite holiday with Jesus Christ. I can only imagine!!!

Happy Easter to all of you from our house to yours!

She Loves Her Dad...

Chris has a pass card with his picture on it that he needs for work in order to gain access to the building and various things....

Chris forgot this card at home a few weeks ago (after returning from Dallas) and Hallie found it. I saw her with it didn't really think much of it as she was just wearing it. Well, since then it has been missing. When we would ask her about it she would say it was "hiding". I didn't really push her too hard as I didn't know if she was just saying that or if she really knew where it was.

Well, today when Chris was at home depot, I sat down with her and said "We really need to find Daddy's name card, could you help me find it?" There was a really long pause and she looked down and said, "No, because then he will go away to Dallas"

How sweet is that...she hid it (actually threw it in the garbage in the office, which thankfully hadn't been emptied yet as it's just paper) because she didn't want him to go on another business trip.

Chris is often wondering if Hallie loves him as much as she loves me and there is his long awaited answer!!

Our Little Flower Girl

The wedding was great and Hallie did awesome. We don't have any of the professional photos back yet but Becky took some snap shots before the wedding and this is a picture of Hallie and Auntie Barb waiting for the wedding to start. What a lady!



This is Hallie kissing me...she was such a sweetheart that day. She felt like a princess.





Better have a drink before the big job of walking down the isle. She did pretty well at this. My mom was sitting in the back row by the isle and she instantly spotted her and went over saying "look...my Abuela's here!" (abuela-spanish for grandma). It was really cute. Then she kind of wandered down stopping every 3 isles or so to see if she new anyone else.




WOW....That was alot of work. This is Hal at the end of the night with Auntie Bev. She fell asleep in her arms after a very long and tiring few days.