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A blessed (and tired) Easter

As has become our tradition, we went to Grandma & Grandpa Hunter's on Good Friday to color eggs. Frances dyed nearly a dozen eggs, and they were beautiful!

Grandma Hunter has a new bunny that sings and hops, and Abigail watched it again and again. She learned how to activate it, and even danced and bounced along!








Easter morning, Fran and I were tired from our previous late night at the concert, and Abby was tired from having a sitter, but we were up a little before 7 in the morning. Frances was so cute - although she found most of the eggs, when she realized that Abby was just starting to figure out how an egg hunt worked, Frances went back and hid many of the eggs she'd found, in really easy-to-spot locations, then helped her little sister to find them. Gotta love Abby's wild looking bed-head...





After church, we went to the Hunters' for lunch and another egg hunt.

Finally, at about 3 o'clock, all of the Bushnell girls laid down for a nap! However, Abigail would not stop talking, so none of us slept! She fits right in to this family...

Oy, vey!

My little Chinese daughter loves bagels with cream cheese! Her consumption technique needs some fine tuning, but, boy, does she enjoy them.

Frances goes to her first concert!

We had heard about the "United" tour (Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith) on the radio, and Frances had excitedly asked, "Can we go?" I had told her that it was just too expensive. But then, the grant foundation (Shaohannah's Hope, which helped us finance Abby's adoption) sent out an email asking for volunteers, to staff the tables/booths during intermission. We were able to go to the concert for free! We even managed to find two empty seats on an aisle. The concert opened with both singers on stage, doing worship songs that we knew from church and from the radio. Then, SCC had his set. Frances knew some of the songs, and I knew them all. Frances did fall asleep during the first half of the concert... oops! She worked like a pro during the intermission, checking forms to be sure that people had completed them correctly, then giving people their receipt, along with the free CD and DVD. During the second half, we didn't go into the theater. I could hear the music from the lobby, and Frances discovered that it was a great place to practice gymnastics. Lots of room to do cartwheels, and an appreciative audience (ushers and a few other volunteers!). We got home at midnight... yawn...

Who doesn't just adore puppies?

Frances has been asking for a dog forever, and we are not getting one! But our friends in Yucaipa have a dog, and she has had her second batch of puppies - only 5 this time (last time I think there were eight!). We went out to visit them one Sunday after church. Of course, Frances was thrilled. Abigail was quite interested, and "puppy" has been added to her ever-increasing vocabulary.