Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone! We were so blessed to spend the weekend with Rosie, Jonathan and Ian. The kids enjoyed playing in the river on Friday, having a yummy Easter dinner on Saturday made by Jonathan and Rosie, and all of us worshiping together at church on Sunday. It was so wonderful t0 have the kids with us in church and us all being together.

Special times and special moments. Rejoicing together that Jesus really loved us THAT much and sacrificed himself so we could be united with him forever...then he came back to life on Easter. How amazing. I'm so thankful.

Thanks, Rosie and Jonathan for such a special weekend! We really missed Aunt Charlotte and Mom, I hope you feel better, Charlotte! The girls LOVED seeing Papa again! Thanks for coming! More pictures to come of our weekend!

Easter 2009

Down by the River

The kids had a BLAST throwing rocks in the water. One after another. They could have stayed there all day, and had we known, we would have just packed dinner. Despite the river being freezing cold, they could have cared less as they waded further and further out to pick up just one more rock.

Our local CSA

We were so excited today to stop by our local CSA (community supported agriculture) and pick up our first share of the season! Kyla is proudly showing it off, along with the pink egg she dyed yesterday at the Creehan's easter party :-)
This is our very first year being part of a CSA, and for us it is Poplar Ridge Farm about 5 miles away from us in Charlotte, NC. I have wanted to do something like this for years! Some CSA's have membership fees where you pay once a year for produce for your whole family, and then receive a share each week of whatever is growing at the time.

Pete is doing a photography barter with our CSA, so we're able to exchange photography for fresh food! Can't get much better than that :-) We're super excited. The eggs above were delicous...and so were the portobello mushrooms. The apples were probably the sweetest I've ever tasted. I don't think this was just in my head...it truely was very fresh food!

You can click on the CSA link above and it will take you to localharvest.org where you can find the CSA closest to you!

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SNAPSHOTS OF MOMENTS: by Pete

Despite a really rough week dealing with Avery's 2 year old attitude plus eczema, I love to look back at the moments and snapshots of good times. Pete and I love to capture the everyday moments. It rained a lot this week, and so Pete used the umbrella as the "backdrop" for the picture. You can get some pretty amazing pictures posing your kid holding a black umbrella! I love my husband's work and his talent. He is such an amazing photographer and he has taught me so much. I love being his assistant at weddings and portrait shoots. He's so much fun to work with and has such a great eye.
I would say about 70% of the pictures that I post on this blog I take throughout the days while Pete's working. But today, Pete gets all the credit for capturing some great expressions on the girls and great angles :-)

Okay, I'll stop bragging about my amazing husband.
Instead, I'll let his website (if you haven't seen it yet) show you even more of his talent.