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Easter Sunday Dinner with the Family In my last newsletter, I promised that I'd share pictures from our family Easter dinner in my next letter.  Now, because of a new computer and misuse of my time, I'm finally getting to it.  We had a great time with a lot of our family members in our home for a delicious dinner.  Adrienne and Caitlyn put on the Easter Egg Hunt for all of the grandkids.  Unfortunately. the weather was cold and rainy so the hunt had to take place downstairs instead of in the yard.  Easter came early this year.  I prefer when it falls later in April because the weather is usually better.   Sara and Camden; Yuli  Doyeon;          Hyeji, Yuli, Cub, Adrienne, Sara, Cam, Effie, (AJ in background) Dojin, Avie Cam, Yuli, Avie, Foster, Effie and Dojin Solar Eclipse During the past week we had a solar eclipse.  I admit, I didn't even walk outside to try and see it, but many of my family members did. ...

Happy Easter Update on our sweet Zackary Bridget, Ruby, Greta, Zack and Todd All enjoying baby Zack before his first surgery Getting lots of beautiful smiles. Crista with Zack post surgery The purple shows where the Dr. glued his lip together.  Crista told me they cut the lip like a jigsaw  puzzle so that when it heals, the lip will fuse together well.  The stitches on the lip are to keep the lip closed. Easter Sunday (4 days post surgery) the next surgery is Wednesday  April 3.  He has a hernia that is in need of immediate attention. Both Crista and Todd celebrated birthdays during the past couple of weeks.  I'm sure they celebrated with Todd, but I doubt Crista spent much time thinking about her birthday this year.  Happy birthday, you two! Easter: He is risen! We started our Easter celebrations on Friday night.  Our stake put on a beautiful production for Good Friday.  All of the exterior rooms (and the cultural hall) held paintings of the...

 The last thing I expected this morning was to wake up to snow.  We had a week of temperatures between 55 and 65,  I worked in the yard for 1 1/2 hours three of the days (weeding) and then this. We had some theater fun this week.  Roy was in Ashville, NC for a conference, so I was able to take 3 grandkids with me to the play, "Seusical the Musical" at our local theater.  It was darling; the actors, singers and dancers did a great job.  I'd never seen it before, so I didn't know what to expect.  It was a well-thought-out play that used many of Dr. Seuss' stories, the main one being Horton Hears a Who.  I took Dojin, Ila and Ollie.  All three were entranced--they didn't talk or wiggle at all.  Dojin told his dad he kept falling asleep, but I think it was because he was very tired by the end.  I never saw him close his eyes.  Ila was also very tired, so I was able to talk her out of stopping by my house to retrieve her sweatshirt ...

  I've decided that Roy's idea of fun is to do projects.  Once again we made a weekend trip to the Gorge to do some projects around the cabin.  This time we readied the 5th wheel to bring back and sell.  We thought we'd use it with our big family, but the cabin is comfortable.  Since we've only used it once in three summers, we decided we better part with it.  Roy also adjusted the cameras on the house.  He would have gone up again tonight to do some outside work Monday and Tuesday, but as you can see, there 's snow everywhere, so outside work would be difficult if not impossible.  I'm happy about it because he's also leaving town for a conference on Wednesday, so this way I won't be alone all week.  Other than projects we managed to get out for a side by side ride and a long walk to the hub and back. While walking to the hub this horse (?) trotted all the way across the field to walk alongside us.  She must have felt lonely.  She w...