Easter Weekend

Easter was a busy but really fun weekend. I was so glad for having General Conference the week before to help center my thoughts on Christ and the whole gospel plan. Easter always reminds me of how blessed my family and I are.

Thursday

Thursday was a busy day with a track meet at Ferris and soccer practice for Halle down town. But we still managed to get our eggs painted and all ready for the Easter weekend.

Sean thought this was the funnest thing he had ever done. He actually did a really good job this year!!!! And to top it off he didn't get dye all over the place.

Chad had a carefully worked out plan for each egg.

Halle has to make sure every egg is perfectly painted.

Good Friday

"Good Friday" was really an awesome Friday. It was the night of our second annual "Glenrose Glammies." This great activity is headed up by our ward Activities Committee (way to go Andrea!). We had an evening of wonderfully delicious food and hilarious entertainment.

High Priest Group




Young Men Leaders



Young Women Leaders

Relief Society Rappers

The Bishopbric danced and sang to N'SYNC's Bye, Bye, Bye. They practiced for weeks and weeks! They were totally awesome and definitely the biggest hit of the evening.

Chris does his solo.

The boy band of the Glenrose Ward.

I'm Chris'#1 Fan!!!!!!!!!

He even let a groupie give him a kiss. (And no restraining order either!)

Saturday

The Easter bunny comes to our house on Saturday - so we can have all the fun on Saturday and then focus on Jesus on Sunday.

Saturday was a crazy day though. Halle had her first soccer game ever. In fact she had two soccer games. One at 9:30 and one at 12:15. It was a brutal day. It was cold, wet and rainy.

Once the games were over and we were dry and warm again we enjoyed munching on Easter candy and playing with the cool balls the Easter bunny brought (big huge bouncy balls with swirling glitter inside - they were a huge hit with the kids).

Chris had track and was away all day.

The kids discovering all the goodies the Easter bunny left for them.

Sunday

I love Easter Sunday. It just has a wonderful feeling about it.

The kids all looked wonderful in their new Easter clothes.

I did something new this year. I sang in the choir. Yes, I know some of you reading this just fainted or plugged your ears or both. But I thought I would do something out of my comfort zone and I'll do it until they can't stand to hear me sing any more and I get kicked out of the ward choir. (But they are pretty desperate you know - so I just might be there a while.)

Anyhow, Grandma and Bompa sat with the kids while the choir sat up front. It was so peaceful to be sitting by adults I could feel the spirit so wonderfully.

After church we had a fantastic family Easter dinner and Grandma and Bompa's. It is always fun when family is around.

All dressed up for church.

Caviness Family Announcement

We have some very exciting news. We now have a new addition to our family. Actually two new additions. We are now a family with pets . . . gerbils that is.

I promised my kiddos a long time ago that when they turned 8 they could have a small pet. I was trying to make turning 8 something special and memorable.

Well our oldest turning 8 happened way too fast and before I knew it I had a promise to fulfill. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the parents) said oldest child made a few bad choices that put him on pet probation.

Pet probation finally ended during spring break and we now have one very excited boy.

Chad actually had been dreaming about getting mice (a much better choice after already talking him out of a snake, frog, and tarantula spider). But we ended up with gerbils.

We thought gerbils would be the best choice for a pet. Cute and fuzzy, they had tails like mice but were bigger and easier to catch (or so we thought), and because they are desert animals they don't pee very much. (But they really do poop a lot!)

We were warned that they like to chew plastic. But if gerbils and hamsters like to chew plastic why is it that all their cages and toys are made of plastic?

Chad named his little guys Chedder and Chester. I call them the "chewer-poopers." So far they have chewed a quarter of their steps away and just last night chewed up their exercise wheel. If you put a toilet roll tube in their cage they can shred it to tiny little pieces in less then a minute! And when you pick them up they bite you! (Just ask Chad and Halle and they will dramatically tell you all about their terrible gerbil bites!!!)

But there you have it - got to love them (smell and all).

So now that you have all this information, any one up for gerbil-sitting when we go on vacation?

Halle and Chad watch the gerbils run around in the bath tub.

This one is Chester. He is quite a bit bigger than his brother. He is also the one that had bitten my children. (Naughty, naughty gerbil!)

This one is Chedder. He is small and hyper. See the green plastic steps and the yellow plastic wheel? They don't look like that any more! Those little chewer-poopers!

If they know these animals chew up plastic why do they make things for them out of plastic?