Well, our Easter didn't go exactly as planned. We were going to go to Santa Barbara on Sunday to attend services with John's family and then go to his dad's house for lunch. John is still dealing with health issues. He saw both our family doctor and a gastroenterologist on Friday. The specialist started him on yet another antibiotic. They seem to think he has a really persistant infection in the colon. We ended up going to the hospital on Sunday morning to meet with Dr. Lin, the gastroenterologist, with the idea that John might be admitted. Instead Dr. Lin is going to do a complete colonoscopy on Tuesday. He wants to look at every part of the colon from top to bottom, not just the lower section where the diverticulitis was. Hopefully this will finally provided us with some answers.

The kids were out of school on Friday, so Mom went to Santa Barbara and picked up Michael's son Kasey so that the kids could color their Easter eggs. They each got to do six eggs each. I'm going to try to attach photos. They had a ball and didn't make to big of a mess. On Saturday I went out in the backyard at Mom's and hid the eggs for all three kids to hunt for. They found all of them with just a little help from Michael and I. John was taking it easy at home and didn't get to participate.

Easter Sunday did bring a special addition to our extended family. My cousin Brian Girsch and his wife, Danielle, welcomed a little girl to their family. Eden Mae Girsch was born at 12:08am Sunday morning. Mom, Dad, baby and big brother Noah are all doing great. This makes great-grandchild number four for my Aunt Pauline. Brian's sister Charity (the one in Missouri) is expecting a second daughter any day now and his sister Lea has another baby due in June. Our family blessings just keep multiplying!