Our Easter Weekend!

Thursday Aydan had

SOCCER pictures!

He's so dang cute!

Gpa Snyder gave Traceon a sucker at Aydan's game!

Doing some push-ups!

Aydan kickin' the ball during his soccer game!

Friday was EARTH DAY! So we planted a little herb garden of parsley and basil!

Saturday was beautiful, so I let the boys play outside!

Then we got ready for the Easter Bunny! Here are the boys' baskets and all their eggs ready to be filled and hidden!

Easter morning came and Aydan and Traceon got right to looking around for their missing baskets and eggs!

They found Traceon's behind one of the couches!

Checkin' it out...

Bunny brought him Tangled, a BLUE CLUE'S Blue, a shirt, a puppy pez, a drink, and some green eggs filled with CANDY!

Finding more and more eggs everywhere!

Aydan spoted his basket...

It was under the sink!

And he LOVED everything he was given...and was speechless while pulling it all out one by one!

Bunny brought Aydan a trio of Batman, Superman, and a bad guy, a shirt, a drink, a comic book, a Spider man pez, and blue eggs filled with CANDY!

Unloading the goods...

Showin' mom the goods....

Dressed and ready to go to church!

Best Sunday Easter Service I've ever been to! AMAZING! What a day to celebrate what gifts the Lord has given us...and one gift in particular...eternity in heaven with him!

Best part of the Service was the end of the play, where real people came out with cardboard box signs! Written on these signs were some of their life struggles, and on the back was how they found the Lord, and how he helped strengthen them with his everlasting love! Beautiful! I bawled, it was so touching how people were expressing their love for their Savior!

After church we went to Gpa and Gma Snyder's house for a little while, and then we went to Aunt Gayle's and Uncle Ken's house for a feast and an EGG HUNT!

Here are the boys hunting down the eggs!

So...we were hoping that JUSTIN would arrive on Easter, but we were hoping like in the afternoon sometime. Well 9 o'clock rolled around and I got a call from the J-Man saying his plane would be landing at 11:30p.m. in IF!

The boys were asleep when I packed them into the truck to get their daddy...

I carried them in and checked the flight agenda...and it said that Justin's plane was DIVERTED! I about bawled, but I saw a plane land right before we came into the airport, and I knew it HAD to be his, so we waited! AND IT WAS!

Best feeling in the world is having your family back together again!

We saw daddy and ran to him! Daddy and Mommy were both crying a little, and I think we were weirding out the kids...but Aydan clung on to Justin and didn't let go! Trace didn't cry or anything but wouldn't go to daddy, and just STARRED at him! I mean didn't take his eyes off him for one second! Very cute!

First family pic in 8 months!

YAY! DADDY'S HOME! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Here are the boys at like midnight, watching daddy bring in all of his stuff! I thought it was so dang cute!

Little by little, Traceon warmed up to daddy. It was kind of more of a "You're really here, and not on the TV!" sort of warm up!

Then he went up to daddy and held out his little arms! He needed some loves. It was very special for these two, because Trace was only 10 months when Justin left, and he has changed a lot since then. Daddy has a little boy, instead of a baby to hold!

So, Justin and I wanted only the boys and I to be there at the airport to pick him up. 1st...it was late. 2nd...we wanted the boys to have ALLLLLLLLLLL of daddy's attention. We are glad we did it that way, because it was such a special moment, and so intimate, and we really needed to get re-acquainted. We all fell asleep on the couch downstairs watching Tangled together, and it was perfect! 3rd....we got to SURPRISE the rest of our family! We tricked everybody!

I knew that Justin's sister Jennifer had to work on Monday night (the night that Justin's plane was "supposedly" coming in) so I called her up and invited her to lunch! The boys and I walked in and sat down with her and I started talking about nothing, and Justin came up and SURPRISED her with himself! She cried, and it was cute!

Later, I told everyone else that Justin's plane was arriving at 7:10p.m. and that we were going to surprise him at our house when he walked in through the door! Well.......................WE SURPRISED EVERYONE ONE AT A TIME INSTEAD!

Justin hid in the back and when a group of people would arrive, he'd sneak out, until they spotted him!

I got some pretty funny re-united pics...as well as SURPRISE pics!

What a good time! It was fun and we thought it was so funny! I'm so happy to have my partner in crime back for a little while! It seems as thought we haven't skipped a beat, and....HE STILL LIKES ME!

We've been having so much fun together, and the boys don't even know or care that I'm here. They have been on Justin's heels since Sunday night! Okay...me too...but it's more like mauling him instead. I got a lot of snuggles and kisses to make up for............ya know?!

More updates later!