Easter Week & Spring Break

We celebrated Easter this week at church with a good Friday service at 7:30, a 10PM Saturday night service, and an awesome Resurrection Service on Sunday Morning. We also got together with the Rector family to enjoy the "world famous egg hunt"!!! My kids look forward to it every year because of the $$$$. This year there was probably over $300 worth of prize eggs. Anna had already been practicing egg hunting at her preschool. The kids totals: Anna- $14, Olivia- $32, Jared-$22, and Zachary-$64!!!

And the hunt is on.........

Anna disappointed that nothing was in this egg (there was, it just fell out. Plus she chose to sit in Pam's lap- look in Pam's right hand :)

Everyone's loot!

Pics of the family. The girls dresses were handmade by Aunt Pam and they looked lovely as always!

And now, SPRING BREAK with the Standefer families (my parents/brothers family) in Gatlinburg!

Heart cath went well...& in the local paper sameday

This morning we woke up bright and early to give Anna her last meal before the heart cath, and awoke to the article about our international adoption in the local paper. We arrived at the Outpatient center at 10 and procedure did not start until almost 2....Luckily, we had a front row seat to all the action in OP center..(Very busy morning with lots of patients and no beds, so we got a hallway bed by the nurses station where everyone kept her entertained- thank you nurses and staff!!!)

(Giving Daddy a shot)

(giving herself a shot-pretend)

Everything went well with the procedure, although lengthy (2 hrs), she did fine. At this point, she will be treated medically, and not surgically (an answer to prayers!!) Once she got back to the room was a different story.....It was like a bull in a china shop trying to keep a 4 yr old flat and still, and leg straight-with no sedative. Needless to say, she has been asleep finally for about 2 hours. We should get to come home tomorrow if all goes well tonight.

(all hooked up!)

You can check out the great story on International Adoption from our Chattanooga Times Free Press paper this morning.
http://epaper.timesfreepress.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=ChatTFPress/2010/03/15&ID=Ar01101&Locale=

Thanks everyone for your prayers today, and for continued prayers as we work through these medical issues.