Easter Happenings

This Easter was packed full of activities and unexpected events. It began Wednesday night with our family sitting down and going through the whole Easter story. Its exciting to see Clay start to be interested in and understand some of the significance of Easter.

On Thursday Clay had his Easter egg hunt at preschool. You can see he has his coat on because it was pretty cool and rainy. Me and 2 other moms helped hide 220 eggs for the 10 preschoolers. Each student was supposed to get 22 eggs, but Clay ended up with 37 eggs, so he had to share some of his with the others which he did very willingly. He also found the prize egg, so he got a new can of play-doh which he was very excited about.

Friday, we headed to Columbia to see Grandma & Grandpa and Uncle Jeremy. Friday night we went out to eat for Grandma's birthday dinner. Then Saturday morning we went with Uncle Jeremy to the Farmer's Market in Columbia to buy some fresh food for supper. We bought some hamburger and steaks from a local farm and found out that they were having a Shorthorn cattle sale at their farm that afternoon. David was interested (as always) in going to a sale and Jeremy said he had never been to one, so that sealed the deal. That afternoon David, Jeremy, Levi, Grandpa and I went to the sale while Caleb and Clay stayed with Grandma and colored Easter eggs.

Now, David is normally the opposite of impulsive, but something about the Columbia air on Saturday turned him into a guy I've seen only one other time (when we went out & bought our new flatscreen TV and Blu-Ray player). When we got in the car after the Farmer's Market, David asked Levi if he would like to buy a Shorthorn cow to show at the fair. Levi wasn't too interested in that prospect, because he's grown accustomed to the Braunvieh cattle that we already have, but he did want to go to the sale. Not to be deterred by the fact that we had left the checkbook at home along with our cattle trailer, David went to the bank and got cash. At the sale we did end up buying a young heifer calf for Levi to show and by then he was caught up in the spirit of the sale and had totally forgotten about Branunvieh cows and wanted to get another Shorthorn to show. We only bought the heifer and David got it worked out for the calf to stay in Columbia until he came back on Thursday to pick it up.

You can see her here in the picture. She was pretty calm in the ring, so hopefully she won't be to difficult to train for showing.

Later that night we had the hamburger and steaks and they were very very good. We also watched the documentary Food, Inc. that Uncle Jeremy brought over. Sunday we went to Grandpa's church and ate breakfast then they had an Easter egg hunt and then Sunday School and church. Afterwards we went to eat at Bob Evans and headed home. It was a busy weekend and we all had a great time.