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Our Easter and More – April 13, 2007

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Wow eight days later and I’m finally back to blogging. I apologize, I’ve been away from a computer for the past four days and really haven’t had a chance to update my blog as I’ve been hanging out in insurance school classes. Yep, that’s as exciting as it sounds. Like watching paint dry. Actually it’s not that bad, the instructor was amusing and made class a bit more entertaining.

So throughout the past four days I’ve managed to write a blog entry. Some of the stuff that I wrote may be outdated so I’ll have to give updates on those as I write.

American Idol

Blake was great and is quickly becoming my favorite to win the whole thing. The ladies love him, I find him entertaining and he’s fromBothell,Wash, the place Lukas was conceived. Oops, should I mention that? This week he became the first male to top my Power Rankings. I know you’re all keeping track.

Sanjaya wasn’t the worse of the week. He actually did alright and now I find myself jumping on the Sanjaya bandwagon! What, what!

My vote to get eliminated is Haley. It’s either her or Phil, though Chris Richardson wasn’t that impressive. UPDATE: I did pretty good eh? Haley was eliminated and Phil and Chris were in the bottom three! Oh yah!

Easter

Our Easter was good. We had breakfast at church and had a nice ceremony. I was a little afraid going into the service because last year’s service was like a 2-hour snooze-fest. This year it was good. Good music, good sermon … good.

Afterwards we went to my parent’s house and had a barbecue. Erik came over, along with our friends Sarah, Graham and their boy Hudson. My parents were a no-show since they had a dog show. All together now… “A dog show on Easter!?!?” Yes, a dog show on Easter. Doesn’t make sense does it? Which makes me ask the question, what has happened to Easter? Why isn’t it celebrated as much as Christmas?

My Pastor actually brought up something that his wife noticed while at the supermarket. The lady in front of her in line asked the store clerk if they’d be closed on Easter. She said that no they only close on Christmas. They don’t close on Easter because it’s just a religious holiday. Excuse me? When did Christmas become a non-religious holiday? Just because we don’t give gifts (though most us do on a smaller scale) on Easter does that make Christmas less-religious? Argh!

I do have to admit that I let Easter sneak up on me and that I don’t get all excited for it like I wish I did. I mean in a way, for those of us that are Christians, it is somewhat a more important day than Christ’s birth. I mean Easter was when he rose from the dead, three days after dying for our sins. But hey, it’s just a religious holiday.

I think part of it is that Easter is often moved around on the calendar. You don’t have a set day on when Easter is going to be. Also, we don’t get days off for Easter.

Anyway, just wanted to give my opinion on why Easter is somewhat forgotten and not made into a big deal.

Back to our Easter. Graham, Erik and I hid the Easter Eggs around my parent’s yard and then had Hudson and Lukas go hunting for them. Hudson cleaned up while Lukas took the non-chalant way of hunting for the eggs. Lukas didn’t grasp the concept of filling his basket with eggs as quickly as Hudson did, in fact he found an egg on his own then called for Hudson so that Lukas can give it to him. Kinda cute, especially since Lukas has problems sharing and Hudson is very good with sharing – for a 2-year-old. And yes, if you see the photos, Hudson is a 2-year-old though he’s the size of a 4-year-old. Maybe we should check his birth certificate though.

Graham cooked up some mammoth burgers and we all hung out on the patio until it began to rain.

Oh yah, Saturday we watched Graham participate in an Easter Parade. He dressed up as a bunny and skateboarded around with this work handing out candy. It was very cool.

Monday we celebrated my Dad’s 48th birthday. Yes, he’s young and looks younger. I won’t say anymore because my Mom reads my blog and has already begun crying. She hates that my Dad looks young.

Tuesday we went to an Explosion game with Josh. It was okay. Not as fast-paced as I thought it would be. I guess I might be covering them some this year.

Wednesday Boston’s Dice-K faced Seattle’s Felix Hernandez. I Tivo’d it, which I’m glad I did as Felix was nearly unhittable. He gave up one hit while pitching a complete-game shutout. You best represent! He’s given up no runs in 17 innings pitched this season. Oh yah, and he’s the ripe age of 21. Watching a performance like this really gets me pumped for baseball.

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