Friday, April 19, 2013

Celebrations, Visits, and Blessings

We have had such a great few weeks filled with lots of visitors and celebrations. We are so grateful and blessed to be where we are right now, figuratively and literally. 

We love living close to our siblings and although we don't get to see them as much as we want, we cherish the time we do spend together! I could post pictures of my sweet nephews all day long. Here are some of my newest nephew - Fritz and a sweet one of Mr. Benjamin.

We also had the most amazingly special Easter. Not only is that day such a powerful celebration, but Fritz was also baptized! I was just a mess the whole service. I started crying when the Brenner family walked in during the processional and couldn't keep it together for the rest of the service. It was beautiful! There's also a picture mixed in here of Luke finding his Easter basket at the end of his super awesome scavenger hunt.

We also got to enjoy a visit from Rob's parents over Easter!!! We had a great time playing! Especially with Luke's new basketball hoop (early birthday present from my parents)! Conner liked it too!

One of my favorite moments from this month was a short visit from my best friend Ashley and her beautiful family. They traveled so many extra miles and hours after their family vacation to spend a day with us. It was short, but so fulfilling. I am so blessed by Ashley's friendship. Our kids all had a great time and played so well together! Ashley's two oldest and Luke all slept in the same room! {Well for part of the night.} And Luke was super obsessed with 6-month-old Evyn! He could NOT get enough of her!!!

And one little baby update -- things are going great!!! Baby is so healthy and active. We had an appointment on Monday and Luke got to find Newbie's heartbeat all by himself! He was so overjoyed. The look on his face was just priceless.

We also had a chance to get some great family pictures this past weekend so my next post will be about those! {hopefully}