Sugar hangover...

I still haven't figured out how to post pictures (see below) and text in the same post without it looking crazy, but I'll get there someday!  Happy belated Easter!  Mike and I both helped out at both services at our church yesterday, so we were there from 7:30 until 12:30.  It was a long morning, but really neat to meet some new people and to see our friends Amy and Thad and Allison Doyle there.  Mike got up on stage to do the "hello" and "goodbye" parts, and the best part of that was that he got to wear a flesh-colored, boy band style microphone.  You know the kind that hooks over your ear and then has an arm that extends toward your mouth?  It was a good look for him.  Hee, hee.  He did a great job though, and I think things went pretty well with the children's ministry too.

We went to the Doyle's house for dinner last night and it was so nice.  It's hard to be away from family on holidays, and we weren't able to go to Pennsylvania to see our grandmothers, or to Massachusetts to see the Leesons, so we were happy to have plans.  The Doyles are just wonderful hosts - they had a fire in the fireplace, delicious food and yummy drinks.  Lilly LOVES to play with Allison, so they had a great time and we got to just sit on their comfortable couch and chat, and then stuff ourselves with a fantastic Easter dinner.  And then the lovely night was capped off with Lilly having a big explosion.  She really knows how to time those things :)

It's so nice to go somewhere and just feel like people have thought of every little thing to try to make it nice for you.  I've always really admired people who are so thoughtful in that way.  Roxy Leeson and Mike's Aunt Chris are both like that too - they just make you feel so comfortable.  It's a treat.  I aspire to be as hospitable as they are.

Lilly loved everything about Easter yesterday.  She loved to wear a pretty dress, and play with the other kids at church, and she really, really loved the candy.  She only gets the occasional dessert and has probably only had candy a few times before, so we just let her have at it.  Tonight I am boxing up all the rest of the candy to send to work with Mike.  Not having had sugar myself in a few weeks, I also kind of went crazy yesterday, but I still feel terrible!  I think I function much better without it.  I just have to remember that!

Lilly has been loving the Easter books that Grandma and Grandpa T sent her.  I went in to get her out of her crib one morning last week and she told me that she was still reading books and that I should go take a shower.  So I did!  It was great!

We get our new windows on Wednesday, and we're so excited about it.  Mike and I were really feeling old the other night when we were getting excited about the features of the new windows (screens!  double-paned!) and talking about the cost of utilities.  We're still trying to deal with the fact that we are paying a small fortune for the privilege of being so cold in our house.  We just got our gas bill and it was $220 less than last month.  Progress, progress.  Hopefully the 26 new windows will be less drafty and we won't hear as much noise from outside.  I long for the days when we talked about books and bands instead of low-e glass and furnaces.

I have to run off to take advantage of nap time and get some cleaning done.  Have a great week!