there's not much better...

than this weather! its wonderful out here! i'm sitting on the porch with geoff. we are discussing how each of our days'have been (well, i'm typing now .... he's still talking and i'm listening. yes, i can multi-task!) there has been a steady flow of golfers passing by. there is a slight breeze and things are just good! (you'd never know i had a pretty rough day with the girls .... hee hee!).

its been a little while since i updated, so i wanted to let everyone know what is new with us. actually not much! can you say r-e-l-i-e-f after getting the results from my mammogram??!! i feel so much better to have that behind me!

easter was GREAT!! we had out-of-town family in for the weekend. geoff's sister and brother-in-law came in late friday night and stayed until sunday. we always enjoy their visits and this time was no different! we had an easter lunch saturday with them complete with honeybaked ham, great sides and amazing desserts - homemade cheesecake and lamby the cake. joyce made lamby and brought him with. i'm sad to say he did not endure the 6 hour car ride! his head kind of detached from the rest of his body, but, no worries! we reassembled him and all was good! the girls never knew the difference. geoff's dad and our niece and her fiance came up too. it was such a good time. sunday we woke to the goodies the easter bunny brought: a peter pan movie, easter bunny themed potato heads, the easter bunny obviously raided the $1 section at target because there was a lot of that, and then some candy .....jelly bean filled eggs, cadbury eggs, reeses bunnies, etc. nana and z.o. brought a plate, bowl, and cup set from pottery barn kids (so cute!), and an adorable little jumper! after soaking in all that we had going on sunday morning, it was off to church with my sister, jeff and chandler and my dad came too. the service was amazing ... as always! our pastor is great! ...... our church as a whole is great. i know it is a choice to go to church there, but i feel SO blessed to have a church home such as the one we have. after church, we headed to my aunt and uncles house for lunch. i thought lunch was going to be a ham and few sides. ha! i get there to find lunch is not only a ham that was soooo good, but homemade chicken and dressing (oh sooooooooooooooo good! its a family recipe that has been handed down!), all kind of wonderful sides, a few desserts, sweet tea, and the list goes on. it was just shy of being christmas dinner, which is always HUGE. it was truly that good! we had an easter egg hunt after eating and that was probably my favorite part of the day. the girls had such a good time. it was so neat watching the kids hunt for easter eggs. i grew up in a pretty large family (my mom's side). while my mom was an only child, she had many cousins. well, they have kids and their kids have had kids now, my sister and i included obviously. so, we have a whole new generation coming along that enjoy the things that we all used to enjoy growing up as kids. i felt as if i were going back in time and watching my generation of cousins on sunday. it was pretty neat! i LOVE spending time with my family! although we don't see each other as often as i'd like (i'd like to see everyone every week, and actually, we used to), we are still very close!

that wraps up our easter weekend in a nutshell. it was grand! i look forward to each holiday as the girls are more and more fun each time one rolls around.

i hope each of you had a great easter as well. it was most importantly a time to reflect back on what christ did for us. it truly is why we are able to live and celebrate today! to god be the glory!!!!

blessings to each of you! i hope you are having a great week!

julie