Sunday, April 22nd

First of all, I'm thankful for our first Sunday worshiping in our new building.

I regret to say that is the only picture I took. I wasn't really in a picture-taking mood that day.

Also that day we had a birthday party for Eric Beerbower. It was supposed to be a surprise birthday party, but the surprise part didn't go quite as planned owing to the stubbornness of Eric. He was still surprised, just not in the exact way as we planned. 

After our attempt to surprise Eric at the park, we headed back over to his house and had a Euchre tournament.

I'm sorry that 1) the only person in these following pictures is Parker, and 2) that there are rather few pictures. As I said before, I wasn't really in a picture-taking mood that day.

The bracket that my brother put together

On Easter Eggs

In case you're wondering why I'm doing a post on Easter eggs, let me enlighten you. My goal was to post every day this week, and it's ten twenty and I haven't posted yet. So I thought I should probably do something short. And anyways, I was quite proud of my Easter eggs this year and would not mind for you to see them in all their glory.

This year, being the only one really home, I got to dye most of the family easter eggs. 

 Usually my eggs are really ugly, but this year was a happy exception. I guess I have more patience than I did last year. Or maybe I just had more of an idea of what I wanted them to look like. Either way, the ones I did turned out much better than previous years.

So enough talk, here they are. I hope you like them, or enjoy not liking them (Deanna).

(By the way, in case you were wondering about the white one, we were saving that until Ben got home and could dye it.) 

The blue one was was my favorite

Ben dying his one Easter egg (which he broke)

One awesome thing about inanimate objects is that they don't move (obviously, being inanimate objects) and so you can take pictures of them without worrying about them moving (unless an animate object moves them, which is not likely to happen when you're taking pictures of the inanimate object). 

Reflecting on that last paragraph, I believe that 1) I am definitely showing the Neherenz sarcasm, and 2) I am hanging out too much with the Beerbowers.

Easter Sunday (4/8/12)

For me, Easter Sunday started off much earlier than a usual Sunday, and rather cold.

Jonny and I arrived at the church at about 7:00. (Usually we get there at 9:10) I had to be there early because I was playing in the Sunrise Service, and so obviously had to be there to practice and such. Instead of practicing outside where we were going to have the service, we stayed inside out of the cold. You know, it's funny, I can't remember a single Easter morning that was warm.

The Sunrise service went well. There were a couple hiccups, like Matt Gerken's and my music threatening to blow off the music stand, and Nathan neglecting to tell us about those two extra verses in 'O Worship The King', but all went well. I doubt if anyone even wondered why we didn't play the first half of the last verse. (It was because we thought the song was done)

But the service was good, even if we were shivering while we stood in the courtyard listening to the message, and we enjoyed it even though our hands were a tad bit red and chapped afterwards.

Immediately following the service, there was a pancake breakfast in the fellowship hall.

Even though we ate slowly, we had the realization that a lot of time to kill before the Easter service started. An hour and a half, to be exact. 

So we hung out and talked in the Narthex. This is where all my pictures come in.

Me and Deanna (And Nick)

This was supposed to be an Angry Birds pose. I don't see it, but whatever, if it makes them happy. 

Parker and his camera (he took a LOT more pictures than I did)

Melody. I like the way the light is reflecting off of her eyes.

Kristen

Melody explaining something to Kristen using hand gestures

Abby and me

Brandon with his mismatching tie and shirt. 

Lauren and me. I like this picture.

Abby looking pretty in pink. 

Sweet Jenna Marie...isn't she so cute?? Lauren and I fight over her. Well, not really.

Lauren and Jenna

Jenna making an Ava face

Outside in the courtyard (where we did the Sunrise Service) there's this beautiful tree that was in bloom.

Me doing Kristen's hair.

You know, that was our last Easter Service EVER in this building. 

The orchestra practicing

And that, my friends, was basically my Easter morning!

( I went to the Easter Service after that, of course. I don't have pictures from that for obvious reasons)

The Park (4/6/12)

You're probably like, "wait, isn't Ryan and Grace's wedding supposed to be next?"

Yes, it's supposed to be.

But it isn't.

I tried to do the wedding earlier today but it wasn't working for me. Hopefully I'll post it sometime later this week or something.

Anyways, I have never had the pleasure of posting something that happened recently.

What you are about too see, my friends, happened recently.

Friday, to be exact.

 I wasn't sure if I should take my camera or not, but I decided to take it. I'm glad I did, because I got a couple good pictures. You know, I'd rather take a few good pictures than a bunch of so-so ones. However, I don't want to post a post with only three pictures on it, so here are all the so-so ones alongside the good ones. Needless to say, I did not post the really bad ones.

(Now you're like, "Okay Rebekah, stop all the talking and just show the pictures already")

Wait...I have to give you an introduction first. 

Originally I was going to have the Olsons, the Beerbowers and the Cornwells to our house on Good Friday since there was no FNBS. Through a series of complicated events, it turns out we had everybody at the Olsons' house instead. But we decided to go to the park because we figured we'd get bored and squished if we stayed the entire time at the Olsons.

So we went to the park.

 Eric and Jonny wrestled. From the evidence that this picture gives, I believe that Jonny won.

 While we waited for the Cornwells to arrive at the park, Jeannette and I took pictures of the creek.  It was cool with the twilight reflecting in it. This picture of Jeannette is probably my favorite of the evening.

Jonny climbed a tree. A rather large tree, to be exact.

The Cornwells arrived, and Parker showed us the Lord of the Rings music book that I had found on Amazon  and that he bought because we are too much of Tolkien geeks.

And then the girls had a lively discussion about the Hunger Games, which was interesting for me because I hadn't seen it yet. Well, when I see it, I'll know exactly what happens.

Then we walked towards the woods, which had a path that we desired to walk on.

 

It was a rather cold walk. We wished the boys would hurry up already so we could go on the forest trail, but they were rather far behind, so we decided we might as well sit down on a bench.

                                                                                               I was rather happy with my 50mm lens right then. Sometimes it can just be so agreeable.

(The two bottom ones are not very good. The two pictures would have looked much better if they had all smiled, but I guess that's the subjects own fault)

Of course, no outing would be complete without a picture of Jeannette taking my picture...

Mercy being Mercy

The boys finally decided to make an appearance.

( Since the above picture was horrible to begin with, I thought I might as well have some fun with it.)

Stephen looking for Ben, whom we had lost (temporarily, we found him later on. I'm sure you're relieved.) due to his wandering. Well maybe he wasn't lost. "Not all who wander are lost". However, as far as we were concerned, he was lost from us.

We then left Ben to his wandering and walked through the forest trail. Stephen and Parker had a discussion on the Hunger Games.

We reached the end of the trail, and gazed at the moon.

 (I didn't mean for this picture to have all the streaky things of light, but a lot of times the accidental pictures can be the coolest ones)

This is not the sun. This is the moon. It was so bright we could see our shadows.

And this is where I stopped taking pictures. But, I'm sure Jeannette and Parker have pictures of later on so I am not too displeased with myself. If you're curious about what happened after the park, I'll tell you. After finding Ben, we made our way back through the woods to our cars. We left the park later than I would have liked (you're not supposed to be in parks after dark and it was waaay after dark). Then we made our way over to the Olsons new house and ate. Then some of us we played music for a little bit, but after a little while we felt bad for ignoring the rest of society and returned once more to the general public. Then, admist Ben's poor pleas, we watched half of a BBC Sherlock Holmes episode. Then we got ice cream and moisturized our eyes. Then we watched the rest of Sherlock. Then we left.

The End.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have another post posted!