Hope Continually -- Psalm 71:14

Autumn, Addie and Autumn Summer and Reagan Lucy and Sierra Donna and Beverly Joe and Phil Jared, Joe, Elijah and Melissa Benicio, Grant, Carlos and Shannon Jenny and I These are just a few of the volunteers that helped us stuff 10,000 eggs for our Easter egg hunt.  Thank you all!

Finishing up our last of the school year 2018-19 !  We celebrated by having lunch at Olive Garden.  This year was our 11th year of home schooling.   Next year, Addie will be a junior in high school, Autumn a freshman, Sierra 7th grade and Summer in 4th grade.

A few weeks ago, I took our daughters, Addie and Autumn, to see the movie Unplanned .  I would highly recommend everyone to see this movie.   It is a movie on a true story of how she used to be a clinic director for Planned Parenthood.  Abortion just isn't a topic for adults anymore.  It is a topic that every teenager needs to know about.  This movie is a wonderful starting point for that conversation.  Please, please, please talk to your teens about this subject.   The movie is rated R but it is not for anything appropriate.  There are a few difficult scenes to take in but so necessary.  Either get to the theater to see this or get it when it comes out.  And talk to your kids!  I can't beg or stress this enough. It is our job as parents to talk to your teens about these subjects.  They need to feel open enough to ask questions.  It is not their school's responsibility or right nor their church or pastor...

Sunday, Autumn and I did our Kid City ministry for Easter Sunday.  I got this set of Resurrection Eggs to use to teach the lesson...I loved it!  You can make your own set or you can purchase a set like these.  I got these from Christianbook.com for $13.  Each egg has a symbol of something in the Easter story - a donkey, a spear, a whip, a crown of thorns, etc. It comes with a story book to help you teach the story using the eggs.  The kids LOVED getting chosen to come to the front, open the egg and show everyone what was inside it as I taught about it.  After I taught the entire lesson, we had a competition boys versus girls.  I created 44 questions from the story and if their team answered correctly, they received an egg in their Easter bucket.  The team with the most eggs at the end won. The kids were so attentive from the youngest to the oldest and it was a fantastic Easter in Kid City!

Saturday, April 20th, we had our Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt.  The weather was crazy windy and nearly stormed on us but thankfully, the weather held for the hunt. Summer getting her eggs! Sierra getting her eggs. The girls with the Easter Bunny. :) It was a great event with 250 attending.  What a blessing to serve our community! Thank you to all the workers of Sierra View who helped and made it happen!

Family photo for Easter 2019 @ Sierra View Baptist Church, Reno, NV.   My husband, Eric, and I Addie (to my right) - 15 yrs. old Autumn (to Eric's right) - 13 yrs. old Sierra (center of photo) - 11 yrs. old Summer (front of photo) - 8 yrs. old We noticed how Autumn has nearly caught up to her dad in height recently!

We are in the "spring clean and fix up" mode finally!  It is hard to get things done when it is still freezing and snowing.  LOL!  I am so glad it is finally feeling like spring! I redid our screens this week.  The screen part was fine.  Just had to put new spline around in the frame. Then got the hubby to put them back on the windows.  Yay!  One job done.  Ready to open those windows for summer breezes! Another one we worked on was cleaning out the front rock area in our landscaping.  Over the year, it collects leaves, pine needles, dirt, trash, wasp nests...and a lot of it!  The only way to effectively clean it is to take out of the rocks, sweep it clean and replace the rocks.   THIS is what you find under the rocks...yikes! THIS is what it looks like after you clean out that mess that accumulated!! Big difference!!  Crazy, right? And, after we put the rocks back!  Ahh!  Do...

Resurrection Day.   The most glorious day we celebrate as Christians.  I hope your day is blessed at the church where you will worship today.  Thank you, Lord!