Sunday March 23

Dear Family,

we are doubling our grandchildren by the end of the year. Our oldest daughter in Omaha, Rachael (and Seth Chappell) is expecting baby #4 in September and our next daughter Frances (and Marc Inman) is expecting baby #1 and #2 in October. Frances is a sonographer (gives people sonograms) so when she found out she was pregnant she had her tec friend give her a sonogram and found out there were two babies. Usually you don't know until you go to the Doctor at 12 weeks and are measured large, then they send you to receive a sonogram and you know you are expecting twins.

Caleb has been home from college for spring break. He did work for me every day (putting bookshelves together, yard work etc.) and in his spare time he and his cousin, Landon, made a silly short movie they will put on the Internet. He finished his papers for his mission and now has two more interviews before they are submitted officially. For his birthday, I made him an ice-cream cake (surprised?) and he had 6 friends over for hamburgers cooked on the outside grill. We gave him all seven seasons to "Star-Trek the Next Generation". Derrald already spoke to babysit them while Caleb is on his mission.

Easter:

Happy Easter, this year it came too quickly. Last year we watched a wonderful DVD (322 minutes) on the Life of Christ, "Jesus of Nazareth" by Franko Zeffirelli. We started a month before Easter and watched a segment every day. This year, we did... Nothing.

Jamon invited us to his in-law's Easter egg hunt. We have always had Easter Egg hunts but with Kay gone and just Janell, we went to theirs. Rachel is the 11Th of 14 children. It was a happy kaos. They had 5 dozen eggs hidden outside which all had to be accounted for because the last time they weren't accounted for, they found one (by stepping on it) in October and it stunk up the neighborhood. I visited with Rachel's 91 year old cute grandma and had a great time. Guess what was served for breakfast? Eggs.

For our past Easter Egg Hunts, we allowed anyone that wants to hunt a chance. The married kids even want to hunt. Jamon visited one year and called ours a "communist hunt", everyone hunts and we trade until everyone has one of each item/candy. The hard boiled eggs have codes on them that represent money. It makes the hard boiled decorated ones more desirable. You get so many and if you have too many, you give to others, but, you don't know the money value until they are divided up. Janell unfortunately gave her 20 dollar egg (she remembers it as 50 dollars) to Derrald and we will never hear the end of that hunt.

I am looking forward to our church Easter Program today. Love, Janae