Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday - we were up early for church to celebrate that we serve a God who is ALIVE!!!

Matt and I after church on Easter Sunday

Easter dinner - so fun to celebrate the holiday with family

the Easter bunny:) we were house sitting for friends while they were away and they had a cute little bunny

with Easter weekend came the bloom of the magnolia's - I love these trees - they remind me that spring is really here - new life after a long cold, wet winter!

Happy Easter to everyone!

HE IS RISEN!

Graduation!!!

This past Saturday Matt graduated from CBC with his degree in Intercultural Studies - I am so proud of him!!!

The valedictorian speech - so good!

Matt receiving his diploma.

Matt's program director

the family

Matt's fellow graduates from the Intercultural Program

Matt has worked so hard over the past four years - Saturday was a great day to celebrate his accomplishments!

It's Friday, but Sunday's Coming!

Good Friday was a beautiful day! We were able to hike/rock hop cascade falls during the day and then in the evening we attended a Good Friday service. It ended up being a sunny day - a perfect day for a hike!

Cascade Falls in all it's springtime glory!

Seattle!

This past weekend we took Dan on a little road-trip to Seattle.

Our first stop - Ed & Aileen's Dairy...

the best and cheapest ice cream in the state!

Stop #2 - Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

it was a rainy, making the fields very muddy, but none the less beautiful!

Matt and Dan loving the flowers;)

Daffodils

So many vibrant colored tulips

Stop #3 - this stop was for Dan - the Harley Davidson store

Stop #4 - BJ's - our favorite pizza place!

On Saturday we headed down to the famous Pike's Public Market

Fresh Fruit

the cutest little yellow cherry tomatoes

more tulips!

so many beautiful, fresh cut flowers for sale

Dano and me outside the first ever Starbucks - we wanted a drink but so did about 50 other people!

the boys - if you look closely you can see Safeco and Quest Field

Window shopping in downtown Seattle...this chair was soooo comfy!

Experiential Music Project museum

there was also a Sci-Fi portion of the EMP building - they had a Battle Star Galatica exhibit...didn't do a lot for me, but to some it was a big deal - give me a Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman exhibit and I would go crazy!!!

more of the EMP Museum - a display of 600 guitars!

The Space Needle

There was a lot of walking, eating and outlet shopping in there too - just didn't take any pictures of those events, but know that they were enjoyable!

Spring Time!

I love spring time on the west coast! Normally it comes early and is BEAUTIFUL! This year has proven to be a slow, cold and rainy spring, but we have seen flowers and trees trying to bloom through all of the bad weather and on sunny afternoons it is gorgeous! The cherry blossoms are out in full force, they seem to be more white than pink this year - I don't know if that has something to do with the weather? Still waiting on the magnolia trees to fully bloom - they are my favorite! Here are some pictures taken from across the street from where we live.

April 14, 2011

Yesterday was Matt's last day of classes - whoop whoop!

It was also a crazy weather day out here in Abbotsford! I worked night shift and found our jeep under a heap of wet heavy snow when I came off shift in the morning. Crazy to see, as on my way to work the evening before, I was marveling at the beauty of all the trees pretty blossoming flowers. Thankfully the snow didn't last long and we are back to sunshine today:)

8 am ( it was worse than this picture makes it look!)

12 pm