Our Easter

Last night our church held an Easter vigil that started with a bon fire outdoors and moved indoors to include people reading Bible stories while musicians performed background music. While one woman read the story of Noah, our daughters and a few other children acted it out (in costume with props and sets). The kids portrayed Noah's family as well as the animals. It was very cute.

This morning we attended Easter services, which were particularly packed due to all the "C & E Christians" attending ("Christmas and Easter"). The bell choir performed, as did the adult choir, as did brass musicians and percussionists from UND. The quality and variety of music both last night and this morning were truly impressive and inspiring. What a blessing that is to our church.

The girls were cute as can be in their matching new Easter dresses. Afterward we came home to a delicious meal prepared by my wife: ham, twice-baked potatoes, steamed asparagus, shrimp pasta salad, "fruit soup" (fresh fruit salad), hard-boiled eggs (of course), milk, and raspberry/chocolate pie for dessert. In a few minutes, I'm going to teach the girls to play the card game hearts. That should be either very fun or very frustrating!

It's nice to have a break from the daily routine to hang out with my family once in a while. Happy Easter to all who read this!

Here's a Little Easter Humor!

Look at that face!

New Look for Web Site

I just spent an incredible amount of time over the past couple of days redesigning my Web site. Why? Because I was looking at another Web site and thought that it looked so much tidier than mine. And I'm on spring break from school, so I used some of the time that I should have been devoting to school work to working on the Web site. Silly. (Just imagine the time I would waste on the site if I actually knew HTML coding!)