Alleluia, He has risen!

Happy Easter, everyone!

We hope everyone had a blessed Easter Sunday.  Ours was very joyful.  A friend of ours was received into the church and Adam was his sponsor.  I made it to sunrise service for the first time in 10+ years?....one of the unexpected joys of being up with a happy baby at 5:30 am.

Two of our friends got engaged yesterday afternoon despite the groom-to-be losing the engagement ring at Easter vigil the night before.  True story.  It must have fallen out of his pocket at mass but he didn't realize it until he had dropped his lady off at her house after the vigil.  So he returned to the church and combed the parking lot with a flashlight in the wee early hours of Easter morning.  No ring.  So he frantically called the priest as soon as the sun came up and asked if it was in the church.The priest searched the church.  Ring found!  Unfortunately, this was after he proposed.  But I think this story indicates that he will be a devoted husband and she a very gracious wife.  We couldn't be happier for them.  And, of course, they now have the best engagement story to share at parties.

On a side note, one of the two Easter parties we attended yesterday had an Easter egg hunt for grown-ups.  Guess what was inside those eggs?  Little bottles of LIQUOR.  Now those were some eggs worth finding.

Alcuin, while lacking the cognitive maturity and necessary mobility for Easter egg hunts did take delight in his Easter basket (though probably not as much delight as Mommy did in making it for him).  Among a few other treats, he got a wooden rattle that he finds absolutely hilarious though this picture doesn't exactly capture his joy:

His grandma also got him some baby musical instruments which he finds thoroughly entertaining.  The kid does love to shake, rattle, and roll.  But mostly just rattle.  It's adorable but when we start to hear those instruments 24/7 the plan is to ship him off to grandma's.  Instruments and all.