Easter Photos

Sorry it's taken me so long to get these up. We had a great 1st Easter with Eden. Gene and I gave her a basket of gifts on Saturday night. Her "big" gift was a small pink New Testament Bible with her name on it. It's exactly like the "B-I" (that's what she calls the Bible) that she uses in her church class for Bible story time. She was so proud to get it. Now she carries her Bible to church like a big girl.

We also dyed eggs. Here's a picture of Eden with her basket full of "real" eggs.

After our church service, we drove to my parents' house in Anniston for lunch and an Easter egg hunt. Ja-Ja (my mom) bought Eden's new dress. Gene didn't get a great picture of her dress, but you can see the smocking pretty well in this shot. The lavender looked SO good on her!

Eden was so cute hunting eggs and Gene got some GREAT shots of her outside. She is so funny...she kept doing this thing where she would drop the eggs out of her basket and say, "Hide them, hide them," like she was hiding them by just dropping them right by her feet. Then, she would walk off and act like she was looking for them saying, "Eggs, are you?" over and over. At one point, she even put her hand over her eyes like she was looking. She is such a little ham!

Finally, after a long, hard day of egg hunting, Eden enjoyed the "fruits" of her labor by eating one of the THREE (thanks, Mom) ring pops that her Ja-Ja put in her Easter basket! I'm just kidding, I LOVE that my mom spoils her :0)

We had a wonderful day with our daughter as we were reminded again of our Father's great love for us. Having a child brings new understanding to what it means that God is our Father. And adopting a child humbles me with the great truth that God chose us, pursued us, sacrificed for us, and loves us unconditionally. What an amazing God He is!

2 New Additions

First of all...sorry it's been so long! We went to Oklahoma for a week for my sweet cousin, Mandy's, wedding, had construction done in our basement, and Eden and I have been passing a nasty cold back and forth. Life has been crazy! We are finally settling down a little.

The big news at the Mason house is our new pet turtles. Yes...turtles. Eden LOVES looking at the water turtles every time we go to the pet store. A couple of weeks ago, Gene got word that a friend had 2 water turtles he was giving away. We talked about it, researched it, and decided to take them. Needless to say, once I got the "habitat" for them including aquarium, filter, UVB light, basking lamp, cleaning supplies, turtle dock, etc., my "free" turtles were not so free. But they are SO fun to watch.

Here's the funny part. When my friend came over to bring them to us, we had a 30-minute conversation about what they like to eat, how much they poop, how to clean up after them, etc. Well, as Sam was leaving he asked Eden what she wanted to name them. She proudly answered, "Eat" for the little one and "Poop" for the big one. How appropriate! So our turtles are named Eat and Poop. Ahhh, the simplicity of the 2-year-old mind.

Hope you all have a great Easter! We are going to attempt to dye eggs today. I'll post photos of how we do. I promise to update more often!! Below are pics of Eden and her turtles. Enjoy!