Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Palm Sunday and Pascha

Hi all!

Hannah loves being on her belly. It helps her get gas out.


Luke in his bouncy room.


Finally, home from a long weekend in Emmaus.
"Egg, more egg"

Gregory helping Luke find an egg.

Gregory and Luke looking for eggs!



Luke and papa looking for eggs!

Doesn't Hannah look sooooo happy!!

This is better. Luke loves to kiss Hannah!!

Luke loves to kiss Hannah's hands too. Isn't that super cute.



Can you bend like that?!

Holy Saturday!




I'm one month old!!

Luke and Pascha resting before the midnight service.


On our way to the pool!

Luke playing with the doors in the hotel room.

The breeze way between pool and hotel. Luke liked this place the best.

Luke hatted the pool. He screamed when we took him in and tried to put his feet in the water. He just watched papa sit by the pool and cried. He didn't want any of us to be in the pool room. We were a bit disappointed. I think the really deep water scared him.

Palm Sunday. Isn't she CUTE!!





Palm Sunday, blessing of the palms!!

Matthew, Luke and Dn. Methodius (a fellow seminarian).


Fr Ted blessing the palms.


Luke looking for eggs!!!


Luke swinging like a monkey in our hotel room, Holy Saturday!!

Well we had a very busy week with all the services but it was good. Luke had a good time in the hotel running up and down the hall. He didn't take a nap on Holy Saturday but he crashed hard at 7pm after his bath, naked. When I was getting him dressed at 10:30pm he didn't even wake up. If we had been home he would have slept through the night. BUMMER!! Anyway, he slept while I was getting him dressed and slept all the way to church and up until the procession. He woke up just in time to be carried around the church. Beth (a lady in our church) carried Hannah around in her car seat. Luke stayed awake for the rest of the service and breakfast at Fr. Ted's and then fell asleep around 3am on our way home. He then let us sleep till 8:45am that morning. It was really nice. Of course Hannah was up some where in there to eat but that's OK. We went back to the church at 11am for Agape Vespers and an Egg Hunt. There were not very many kids at all at church. So because there were 801 eggs hidden they were divided up among the kids and each kid got 27 eggs. Hannah and Luke were both involved in the hunt so we ended up with a lot of eggs. Luke was running around saying "more egg, more egg" it was super cute. We got home around 3pm, unpacked and them just vegged. It was great!! Later we went over the neighbors and had chocolate martinis. Ohhh, that's the stuff that could make you and alcoholic. It was really gooood!!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Pascha!!

2 comments:

Josh said...

Nice pictures! I'm also excited to see that Matthew has decided to take a different name. It will take a while to get used to, but we'll all be fine. So, congrats on the new name Sub-Deacon Pascha. It has a nice ring to it :).

In case you are totally confused by this take a look and the caption of one of the pictures from the hotel room.

Matthew Howell said...

Well now that you've commented on it, I can't go back and change it unless I delete your comment. Thanks a lot...
--Subdn. Pascha

PS: Also note that the word "hatted" should be "hated." We won't say who made this post, but let's just say that she didn't go to an all-male high school.