All Things Morris: Easter Weekend and Blog update #3 for this weekend.. WOW!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend altogether! Caleb sings in the choir at our church, Prestonwood Baptist, and had to sing in all 4, ahem, 3 of the services. He was supposed to sing in 4, but he says the alarm "didn't go off"... haha! I think his body didn't want to get up so his mind forgot when he pushed the snooze button earlier that morning! Nonetheless, he still sang in 3 of the services that weekend, 1 Saturday and 2 on Sunday. I decided to go to the Saturday night service with our wonderful friends Trog and Mendi so that I wouldn't have to be a loner and go to the service alone like I normally do on Sunday mornings! It was absolutely incredible and they, as always, came through with the most incredibly moving music that perfectly fit the occasion! On Sunday morning, I got up and got to cookin' to get ready for the Easter lunch we had with Caleb's mom and family. I also had to clean house and get ready to go back to work after Spring Break since Plano ISD hates their teachers and decided it would be a good idea to "double dip" and have Spring Break and Easter all in the same weekend and not give us the Monday after Easter off like they always have in the past. Whatev... Not bitter. Anywho.. So, I spent Sunday morning being a housewife, then when Caleb got home we took off to his sister Emily's house to celebrate the resurrection of our savior with some fried chicken and an Easter egg hunt! Don't you think that's how Jesus would celebrate today?? I think if Jesus lived today He'd be a southerner and would LOVE him some fried chicken while He fellowships with His disciples. Well, at any rate, that's how we celebrated! It was a true Baptist potluck at the Thornton household, complete with enough easter eggs to let the whole neighborhood participate. I think we actually spent more time stuffing eggs than we did eating lunch and letting the kids hunt. Oh well! By the time lunch came around, most of the kids were already full from sneaking candy, so all the adults enjoyed some good food and fellowship. Lunch was followed by hiding eggs and the kiddos hunting. And it wouldn't be a true celebration without a little drama, right?! Well, our neice Elyza had the opportunity this year to help hide eggs since her mom told her that it would be her last year to participate. Since Elyza decided to hide eggs, Chloe decided that she wanted to as well, but since she is much younger, mom said she had to wait a few years. Well, that just wasn't going to cut it, so Chloe decided to boycott the Easter egg hunt altogether. That wasn't going to work either, so after some serious coaxing, Chloe somehow managed to make it outside to atleast be amongst the hunt, but spent the first 10 minutes outside crying about how she didn't want to hunt eggs? I know..really cute, but seriously.. when I was her age, I don't think I'd ever cry when my parents told me to run around in the yard and get as much free candy as your basket could hold! She finally caved and decided to hunt eggs, which was great because there was half of the Thornton backyard that seriously had not even been touched and all of the other kids were done with hunting! All-in-all, the Easter hunt was a success and we are glad that all age-appropriate children enjoyed themselves and have enough candy for at least a weeks worth of candy stomach-aches! Enjoy the pics...