Easter Weekend

Our Easter weekend started on Thursday, April 1, for us. Many of you know that April 1 was the year mark of losing our baby girl, Angelina. You can visit http://letterstoangelina.blogspot.com to read more about approaching April 1 and what we did, etc. But one of the things we did, which has been something we have wanted to do forever but didn't really know how to do it, was make a sign to put on the bench Taylor gave me last year for Mother's Day that sits by the waterfall in our back yard. We think it turned out perfect!!

It reads: "In Loving Memory of Our Angel, Angelina Joyce Housley, April 1, 2009" We love it!!!

Then on Saturday, I got a crazy hair to throw a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. I had the idea because my sister-in-law does it every year with her neighborhood--when I thought about doing it here, I needed some encouragement so I called one of my neighbors to see if she would participate. That really locked me in to doing it! I didn't think we had too many houses in our neighborhood, but when you have to go door to door to drop off fliers, you begin to notice how many houses there really are! I think in the end there were close to 86 houses that we had to individually deliver fliers to!! Isaac was all about helping me for the first 10 houses or so, but then he wanted to sit in the car! :)


We had over 300 eggs and a great turn out. It will be a great annual tradition for our neighborhood!! The only downside was that it was windy and about 50 degrees, which wasn't bad, but with the wind, it was cold!!

We had food afterwards which provided a great opportunity to meet our neighbors.

After the Easter Egg hunt, we jumped right in the car and went to the hospital because my sister had her baby!!! Heather and Tyson welcomed their first child, Katie Sue, at 2:49 a.m. on Saturday, April 3. Katie weighed 6 lbs 8 ozs and was about 19 inches long. She is SOOO adorable!!

The two Fink grandkids!!

Me and my sis with our kiddos.

A close up of Katie. She had to go to the NICU for a day...it sounds worse than it was, but they took the necessary precautions and had to stay an extra day in the hospital.

Then on Monday, mom and baby came home!! She is soo precious!

And while we were at the hospital...Isaac found ways to entertain himself! ;)

On Easter, Isaac woke up to the goodies we got him in his Easter basket. Here he is showing me one of the cars he got.

Then off to Nana and Papa's. It was General Conference for our church--which is a worldwide meeting for all where our leaders speak to us on several topics, you can go to www.lds.org to read more about it--between sessions my parents gave Isaac a basket as well. He thought it was pretty cool.

Isaac giving Papa a hug to say thank you

After the basket, they did another Easter Egg hunt for Isaac in their basement. I love this picture of Isaac looking at my dads mountain lion while grabbing the egg.

This is his "searching" pose....love it!

Isaac got a Little Einstein DVD...have I mentioned lately that he LOVES Little Einstein??? He calls it "pat pat pat" and asks to watch it ALL the time.

And that was our Easter weekend. It was pretty busy but yet low key. Can I put those two phrases in the same sentence?? :) Between General Conference, the neighborhood Easter Egg hunt, and going back and forth to the hospital, we had a great weekend filled with friends and family. It is wonderful to be at a point where Isaac can start to understand holidays.