Fun at Squantz

Wednesday here was hot and sunny, getting up to 89 degrees. Before Daddy left for work, we headed over to Squantz Pond for a little outing. We had a great time wading, playing in the sand, and having a water fight. Most of the older kids ended up soaked. :)

~Megan~

Easter

On Easter morning, Amanda, Nathan, Joshua, and I got up very early and hiked over to Sweetcake Mountain Preserve for our own sunrise service. We enjoyed the cool morning peace, sang a few songs, and took turns reading the Easter story aloud. It was very pleasant and beautiful.

Just before the sunrise

This isn't really what it looked like. We were having trouble capturing the real colors, so we turned on the sunset setting on my camera, which tends to put in colors that aren't there. Looks pretty anyway, doesn't it?

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Later in the morning, we attended the regular Easter service at church. That afternoon, we hung out outside and hunted for Easter baskets. In the evening, Grandpa and Grandma came up for a delicious Easter dinner.

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Nathan and Josh in the stream in their nice clothing, hunting for rocks

Benjamin on the swings

Hannah looked so cute running around outside in her gorgeous dress with her pretty hair, so I went a little shutter-happy taking pictures of her. The ones below are just a sample of some of my favorites.

~Megan~

Gloves!

The weather here today is beautiful, at almost 70 degrees and sunny. So I was a little surprised when Ben walked into the kitchen with his blue wool mittens on. "You don't need those, Ben," I said. "It's warm out."

"But I want to help Mommy in the garden," he answered.

I tried to explain to him that work gloves are different from winter mittens; that he needed a different kind of glove.

He obviously didn't quite get it, because a moment later he walked back into the kitchen, this time wearing his heavy snow mittens.

I think we need to find that boy a pair of work gloves!

~Megan~

Monadnock Youth Retreat

This past weekend, Amanda and I were at Monadnock Youth Retreat in New Hampshire with Katie and Christy. It was a ton of fun! We played laser tag, dodgeball, jousting, and bungee run. At gatherings, we played funny games, sang some great worship music, and listened to Greg Dyson, our speaker. We had some great discussions and laughed alot. It was a totally awesome weekend!

Christy

There were rubber chickens hidden all over the campus. If you found them and brought them to a gathering, you got points for your team. If you dressed them up, you might get extra points for creativity. We found 7 chickens. These are 3 of them: a mummy, a chicken getting eaten by Christy's jaguar, and a nun.

Amanda with a pirate chicken

Katie with the sword she made for the pirate chicken

Katie and I are jousting. The object of the game is to smack each other with the big log-things and knock the other person off their pedestal.

Katie and Amanda are doing the bungee run. They are strapped to a bungee cord and are competing to see who can run and get their beanbag the farthest before getting jerked backwards.

Amanda, Christy, and Katie waiting to play laser tag

~Megan~

Belated Christmas Photos

I was going through the pictures on my camera today and discovered some great ones from Christmas that I had forgotten about. So, without further ado, I give you our visit from Santa Claus and his trusty elf helper.

You know it's spring when...

-you can have a water fight and get completely soaked.

-you can leave the windows open at night and not freeze to death.

-Birdsong becomes normal again.

How do you know when it's spring?

Wise Words of the Week

So, Nathan has recently been going on all the time about how hoeing your garden is so good for you and will "make you live to be 100". At dinner, he was insisting that eating meat will make you live to be 100 as well. However, I found Joshua's comment on the subject to be the most profound:

"Food is good for you. It'll make you live to be 100."

I heartily agree.

~Megan~