Tick, Tick, Tick (and Easter stuff)

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How was your Easter? As most holidays go, when you live in a town where your own mother, your in-laws, and various siblings all reside or are visiting, it can get a little hectic. We went to early church this morning. Arriving on time was a feat unto itself. I think God decided to punish me for my pride in punctuality by placing T and I in a pew directly behind the most obnoxious family we've run across in quite awhile.

Our church is pretty big. We have 3 services and each service can accomodate around 2,000 people. The downstairs and balcony were packed this morning. Why we had to end up behind the "McBrattysons" is a question I may never receive the answer to. I have no problem with people wanting to keep their children with them during a church service. If they can behave. (That goes for the parents too)

You'd think Mrs. McBrattyson would have noticed that the only children sitting in a 5 pew radius of us were older, quiet, elementary-school aged kids. Maybe she didn't notice because all 5 of her kids were going in different directions. The older two were loudly whisper-fighting over a water bottle, while the middle child sat in his mother's lap, tapping wildly on his Spiderman sunglasses (?!). I have discovered that that is the second most annoying sound in the world. The most annoying sound in the world would have to be the spitting/bubble noises that the two year old was directing at Mr. McBrattyson. When he tired of spitting and yelling, he started to shake the leg of the poor man sitting at the end of the pew!

I have made my share of parenting mistakes, ya'll, but I really have to draw the line at letting your child get away with shaking a complete stranger's leg! It was in the beginning of the sermon too, so the poor guy couldn't leave. Shockingly, the McBrattysons debated several times (with 50 people staring at them) over whether or not they should "take him out."

Yes! I wanted to shout. Let me show you were the children's wing is! It's wonderful! Junior can yell all he wants and shake stuff back there!

But they didn't.

They just kept yanking the kid back and forth off their laps until his shrieking grew too unbearable even for them. Our area of the sanctuary drew an almost audible sigh of relief as Mrs. McBrattyson dragged Junior out.

So maybe it was a good Easter sermon. I dunno.

We spent the afternoon at the in-law's for lunch and an Easter egg hunt. I took a Decadent Peanut Butter Pie...look for the recipe on Wednesday!

How was your Easter? Did you actually get to hear a sermon?

{Here are some pictures from our day!}

The T fam and my mom, "Mimi"

Otherwise titled: "T and the Women"

We "recycled" the Easter dresses this year. The only dress I could find that I liked had a $40 price tag on it. I don't care if Natalie was going to wear it every Sunday and every naptime for the next three months. It wasn't worth it. She wore this on her 3rd birthday, and I thought she looked so pretty. I didn't have time to make her a hairbow, so she had to wear that one, which was one of my pathetic first attempts at hair-bow making. I haven't attempted one since. You can see why.

Can't take a picture in our front yard without someone else's car or house in the photo. Ugh.

After church....

Easter egg hunt at the in-laws' house. Do me a favor and don't mention the hunt part to Michaela Byrd. She was taking a nap and missed the excitement!