Weekend of Celebrations

National Championship... Here we come!

What an exciting weekend!  We had some friends and family over for the game on Saturday night and had a great time.  We were all going crazy in the last few minutes of the game.  It's still hard to believe Butler is playing for a National Championship title.  After the game, Chris and I decided we wanted to get tickets, so we drove downtown during halftime of the Duke game to join everyone in the madness.  There were so many people and it was just crazy (and we even ran into a number of people we knew doing the same thing).  We bought tickets from West Virginia fans who just wanted to sell them and head home.  They were really nice and said they would be rooting for Butler (especially since they just got beat by Duke).  We got a set of four tickets, so we are headed to the game tomorrow night with our brother-in-law, Wade, and a good friend of ours, Alex.  I can't wait!  My manager even traded me shifts at work so I wouldn't have to be late to the game since I sometimes don't make it out before 10, even though we close at 9.

Today we went to church and then had lunch at Wade & Jessica's house for Easter.  Here are some pictures from the weekend.  

We watched my nieces on Saturday morning and had a little Easter egg hunt.  Katie won, of course, but she was the only one who really cared.  Betsy is content with anything and Addie just wanted to know what was in each egg... over and over again :) 

  I bought this shirt for Betsy a few years ago and now it fits Addie. 

It says, "If you think i'm cute, you shoud see my Aunt"  

I'm not nearly as cute as she is, but I just love the shirt :) 

My nieces and a coworker's daughter all watched The Chipmunks Squeakquel while we watched the game.  They started off on the couch and ended up here.  Do you think they are close enough to the TV?

Wade, Jess, and their three beautiful girls.  

*starring Addie's stuffed cow*

 Isn't she darling?

 The sun hurt Betsy's eyes.

What a beautiful day it was to celebrate our risen King.  I was reminded today of what Jesus went through for us, and ashamed that I don't think of it more often.  Jesus died on the cross so that we could have life, and i'm so thankful for that.  Hopefully we will continue the celebrating tomorrow when the Dawgs trample the Blue Devils.  I really think it could happen.  Lets go BU!

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him. The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Romans 8:6-11