Belated Easter Pics

Trying desperately to catch everyone up! Here are the pics from Easter...

This is our Easter garden that we make every year. There's a tomb on one side with a rock that we put in front of it on Friday night. Then on Sunday morning when the boys get up the rock has been moved and Jesus' body isn't there! He is risen indeed!

Here we are making our fun Easter crafts... We dyed eggs sometime that week, too, but in the craziness somehow I missed taking any pictures! Sorry about that.

On Sunday afternoon we had a fun egg hunt with our friends from church.
It was such a pretty day!

Here are our Easter cuties! (Note the little white figure that Micah is holding.
It's Jesus, one of Micah's favorite toys to carry around.)

Passover Seder Meal

When I was a kid, I remember taking an "authentic" seder meal at church one time, and I thought it was really neat. I have wanted to do something like that with my kids, so this year we tried. They have known the passover story for a long time now, but we thought that taking the seder meal might help them understand a little better about how the Jewish people celebrated every year. Now, we are not Jewish, and probably left off lots of important details, since we were doing the "Wideman little boy" version of the meal. But it was enough for the boys to get the idea of what the passover meal was like every year. We basically gathered ideas from several websites, then adapted it to a preschool version as we told the passover story again and ate the different foods, trying to explain the significance. The best part (and maybe what they will remember the most!) was when they had to eat the bitter herbs. This was to represent the years of Jewish slavery. I got great pictures of the boys bravely trying the bitter herbs. Classic. Anyway, just wanted to share one of our family experiences with you.

Catch Up Time

Okay, I know I have lots to catch up on, so here goes...

First thing to catch up on is St. Patrick's Day - always a fun day at the Wideman home. Sorry it's almost June and I'm just now getting around to posting March pictures, but at least I'm getting them out there!

We had green oatmeal for breakfast that day - yum!

And for lunch, we had green eggs and pancakes. Micah, whose favorite color is green, thought this was all just for him.

And now on to some Mercy catching up. She's already 10 1/2 months old, so we've got a few months worth of cuteness to display here. Don't worry, this is not all. There is more to come in future (hopefully near future) posts.

Thought you wouldn't mind a little big brother super hero action here...

This was taken on Palm Sunday. Easter pics to come soon!

I Love It!

The other day Micah was asking me for something specific for his snack, but I didn't quite understand what he was saying, though I knew it was M&M's he was wanting. That evening he told Daddy he had "M-O-M's" for a snack that day. How cute is that? I love it!

Vacation Pictures Finally

Okay, so I've been a little behind on putting pictures up here. :o) But here are some highlights from our vacation to the "land of smiles" back in February. We had a fabulous time, hung out with some fun folks, and made memories that will last forever. Here's just a peak at what all we did...

The boys enjoyed feeding the elephants and hippos at the zoo. We were hoping to feed the giraffes this time (like we did before), but that wasn't an option that day. We were disappointed about the giraffes, but still enjoyed feeding (and sometimes petting!) the other animals.

Riding back from the zoo that day we took the local transportation which is like a covered truck with benches down either side of the bed for people to sit on. The kids loved riding these, but we had to hold on to the stroller and Mercy's seat/backpack!

The city with the great zoo was where we spent the first week. Then we headed south on a 4-hour van ride to the vacation place where the beach was. It was a great week for our family! Here are some of the fun things we did that week...


We spent Valentine's Day there... Thanks, G-mother for sending all the valentine stuff! We took it with us so we could celebrate there.


The place where we stayed was right on the beach. The boys had SO MUCH FUN playing in the sand and water. It was like the boys' favorite dream come true!


We spent our 3rd week in a different place where had lots of fun too. We're so grateful for the people we met and the great time that we had. What a gift to our family!

Micah's Answers

For our family devotions we recently finished The Jesus Book where we've done one of the lessons each night, then had the boys take turns doing "memory". They have enjoyed answering the questions about Jesus like "What did the prophets say about Him?" and "Where was He born?" and "When did Peter deny Jesus" and "When did His ministry begin?" Sweet Micah sometimes gets the answers a little mixed up, but he loves to hang in there with his brothers and answer them too. One night when asked "When did Jesus' ministry begin?" He answered, "After He was baptized and the Holy Spirit descended on Him like a... rooster." :-) He got "rooster" from the question about Peter. Of course, we all laughed, but he was totally serious. It was very cute.