The First Sunday

... after the first full moon, after the first day of spring. Easter!


Today, we had the Wyss family over. There was never a dull moment :). There were 30 of us all packed into our house. I don't know what we would have done with the kids if it had rained.
Supper was wonderful. As usual, Grandma makes as much as she possibly can and still wants to do more. After supper, we were all sitting around and I remembered: mom had never served the jello. hehe. Sure enough, it was still in the refrigerator.
So we had a snack of jello and sent everyone home :)

I love Easter. :)

This week has been a wonderful reminder of Christ's death and resurrection and the hope that we have. I don't think I will ever be able to fully comprehend the depth of His love for us.

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Now the demons they danced in the darkness

When that last ragged breath left his lungs
And they reveled and howled
At the war that they thought they had won
But then, in the dark of the grave
The stone rolled away
In the still of the dawn on the greatest of days

High noon in the valley of the shadow
When the shadows were shot through with light
When Jesus took in that breath
And shattered all Death with his life
So long, you wages of sin
Go on, don't you come back again
I've been raised and redeemed
You've lost all your sting
To the victor of the battle
High noon in the valley of the shadow

Let the people rejoice
Let the heavens resound
Let the name of Jesus, who sought us
And freed us forever ring out
All praise to the fighter of the night
Who rides on the light
Whose gun is the grace of the God of the sky

High noon in the valley of the shadow
When the shadows were shot through with light
When the mouth of the tomb
Shouted, "Glory, the Groom is alive"
So long, you wages of sin
I said go on, don't you come back again
I've been raised and redeemed
All praise to the king
The victor of the battle
High noon in the valley
In the valley of the shadow
~A.P

I love that song, and I couldn't get it out of my head this week. So, I thought I'd share it. :)

In Christ ~Michelle

All Things Spring

It really must be spring- the chicks came this week. :) They are so cute. I love watching them scurry around and huddle under their heat lamps.

Today, all the little cousins and some other kids come over and hunted for Easter eggs. It's always fun watching them dash around the yard getting way more candy than they need. :)

The hunters

Absolutely adorable little girl :)

Candy!

Oh, and the flowers are blooming! Thanks to Jenny we have beautiful flowers all over the farm. :)


In Christ
~Michelle

Got Milk?

This Sunday we are hosting the Wyss's for Easter, so my mom spent most of the day pre-cleaning the house and mopping all of the floors.

Tonight I decided to have chocolate cake and milk for a little 10 o'clock snack with my dad. The was no warning, no ominous music or sudden darkening of the room, no little voice, nada. Just a jug of milk sitting inconspicuously on the table. I really don't remember what exactly happened, my mind must have tried to block the event from my memory. It could have slipped from my hand or sprouted legs and jumped. Who knows? Well, I remember vainly grasping for it as it flew through the air. And then it hit. Milk was everywhere, all over the cabinets, the table, the refrigerator, and the floor. I laughed. My dad laughed. My mom just kind of pretended she didn't see it.


sigh. :(

So, guess what I was doing at 10 o'clock tonight. I had to scrub the kitchen floor. Very reminiscent of the great milkshake fiasco.

In Christ
~Michelle

It's a Mystery

Well, actually not any more...but that's what last weekend was -the yg Mystery Trip. :)

All we knew was that we were going somewhere, about 4 hours from here, in some direction, to spend the weekend and we were supposed to be at church at 10am on Sat. to load the bus. I was extremely excited (to put it mildly :D ) and spent a lot of time trying to pry where we were going out of my cousins. About an hour into the trip we had it narrowed down to about 3 possible places and not much longer after that and it was announced: we were headed to Bloomfield!

So, I was once again thrilled. Some of my cousins live there and out of approximately 100 churches, I had been to 51 (woohoo!) Bloomfield made it 52!

When we arrived Kendra W. (my cousin) and my uncle Russel was waiting to greet us. He is very close up there as one of the sweetest old men ever. The rest of their yg joined us on the bus and took us on a tour of Amish country. We went to a furniture store, a horse collar shop, and a buggy shop. I learned way more about horses then I ever cared to, but it was tons of fun anyway :).

They gave us one of the most delicious and original suppers I've ever eaten. We started out by playing a mixer game and then went through the line with those we didn't know. We were served soup and salad and sent back out into the main room. There we played another game to mix up for the main course which we also did again for dessert.

Joy and I stayed at Jackie W.'s house. We had an amazing time and some rather humorous conversations.

Sunday was lovely all around (though I found it is quite universal for men to assume that because they are hot, everyone else is too. Therefor, how about turning the thermostat down to an insanely cold temperature while the women huddle together in the benches trying to stay alive). Also, I learned I am related to about half of the church in Bloomfield. After church we sang for the elderly and had yet another wonderful meal before heading home.

So, Washington's first annual Mystery Trip can be declared a success :).

Ooo...and I am absolutely loving the warm weather :). It can stay as long as it wants.

In Christ ~ Michelle

I need a job

yup. that's right. I just quit and I need a job. I'm glad I quit. I really was getting too burnt out to do my job as well as I should. But, now I need to get a job for the summer :P. I've been looking into day cares and social service agencies, the problem is most summer positions in anything social service oriented are volunteer. Which is great, but I need money. sigh.

So, I started looking into nannying. And I found the coolest position ever! Two kids, they speak three languages, pay well, three days a week and offered to keep me over night when I work! Awesome, right? Well, I emailed them and told them I was interested. Only a few hours later I got an email back. The email sounded good, real good. Almost too good to be true. Then I saw the email address, it was a completely different name than the husband or the wife. hm...

This is part of the email: "I believe you are fit this position in as much you will prove yourself to be a reliable and good person. We will be offering you $400 weekly and if you accept this position, I will instruct my finance manager to forward to you a check for your first week upfront payment by express mail so that i can be rest assured of your availability for the job. If you're accepting this job position, Kindly email me the following details so that the payment can be issued: Full name, Contact Address: (No P.O. Box) , Apt #, City, Zip Code, Home & Cell number."

Anyway...At the advice of my parents I email them and ask for references from their jobs before I gave them any of my info. They wanted me to start work the on the 12th so I replied on Wed. night. I still haven't received a reply. I am now convinced that who ever that was, he is a creepy stalker or something. :P

After all that, I'm still unemployed.

In Christ~Michelle