Passover Seder 2010

We celebrated the Passover Seder Tuesday night.

It was a pretty small group this year, I don't think we even had 70 people.

(Aidan sporting a grape juice moustache)

Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the universe, creator of the fruit of the vine...

It's pretty much tradition for the kids to sing "No, No, No" a song about Pharaoh saying no to Moses, written by my mother in law.

♪♫ L' shana ha ba'a birushalayim ♫♪♫

Next year in Jerusalem!

Before

John H. has been a busy man!

He's been doing a lot of work over by the Center, and he's done some work here in the center of the community.

I think the plan is to have all this middle area completed and landscaped by next Sukkot.

All the World is a Drum

During church Aidan was going around and gathering all the extra books to be his "drum".

Every now and then the weather is nice enough to go for a walk.

We've left Cary all alone this week while we stayed in EskDale to "help" with the Pesach (Passover) feast preparations. The Seder is tomorrow and this weekend is our Feast weekend.

Highway of Love

I don't know about the rest of you married people, but sometimes when we take trips, Cary and I resemble the song "Highway of Love" (from the musical I love you, you're perfect, now change)

Our dialogue usually includes me pestering Cary to let me drive since he is falling asleep most of the time,

BUT being in the car is usually where we end up having our best conversations, so I guess we have to take the good and the bad. ☺

(photos taken on our trip today, the weather was all sorts of crazy, must be Spring!)

9 Months Old!

I can't believe this girl is nine months already! (really it happened two days ago)

I wet her hair down for pictures

and then she really did not want to look at me

My little girl is working on her 6th and 7th tooth...seems like like this teething thing is never going to end

she loves chasing her brother around the house

and lately she claps on command. I swear she tries to copy us saying "clap, clap, clap"

She's becoming a little more spunky everyday and I realize how similar our personalities are,

and that's pretty scary! ☺

I didn't want to leave Aidan out, but he didn't want to sit by Ella to get his picture taken. (Well, she didn't want to sit to get her picture taken either!)

Deck

Crystal posted last week about some of the changes happening out at EskDale

The deck and stairs are gone!

How exciting, it's always nice to see plans moving forward

For reference, here is what the area looked like last year.