First Holy Communion

On May 1, 2010 Miss Megan made her First Holy Communion.  After a year of preparations through her G.I.F.T. (CCD, PSR) classes the day finally came!

When Mass began, Fr. Frank and the alter attendants walked to the alter and sat down. The First Communicants were walked to their seat by their parents.  Since our last name starts with the letter A we were first.  Any mistakes we made would be followed by everyone else doing the same thing!!!

The song Canon in D was played during our entrance.  The second I heard the first note I teared up.  This is the song I walked down the aisle to at my and Ron's wedding.  By the time we reached the alter my eyes were so full of tears I couldn't see anything or look at anyone.

Every little girl looked beautiful and every little boy handsome walking down the aisle to their seats.  It was more than my emotions could take!  I finally broke down and asked Ron for my first tissue!!!

During the homily Father Frank called the children to the alter where they all sat and faced the congregation. He talked directly to them and everything he said was so they could understand.  Megan glanced at me once in awhile with a big smile on her face. 

A lot of the children had "jobs" to do for the preparation of gifts (bringing the communion bread, wine, and offerings to the priest).  Megan's job was to bring the Holy Water to the alter.  The day I found out her job I started praying her Allen/Zedalis clumsiness did not decide to show itself on May 1st!  Prayers worked and she carried it down to the alter effortlessly!  Whew!  And yes, I was teary-eyed again.

Then came the moment we were all waiting for.  Time for Megan to receive her first official "body and blood of Christ".  Thankfully, we were not first but as we made our way to the alter I couldn't hold the tears back any more.  It was such a proud moment for me.  My baby looked gorgeous and so happy.  A few tears escaped my eyes and actually rolled down my cheek. 

Once we went back to our seats I was able to calm myself down by watching the other children and their reactions to drinking the wine. One little girl walked back to her seat holding her belly and another one looked like she was going to throw up!!!!  Funny.

After mass we had a little party at the house for Miss Megan.  It was her special day and we are thankful we were able to spend it with many members of the family.

Megan received some money for her big day so we allowed her take some of it and buy herself a new bigger girl bike!  She made sure we went bike shopping on Sunday even though it was raining and she wouldn't be able to ride the bike.  Luckily there were a few breaks between the rain showers and she was able to take her bike for a few test drives!!!

Megan’s new bike!

New paint…

We FINALLY painted our kitchen!!!  The dirty white walls are gone.  Here are some pictures of before, during, and after…

 

You can’t see much of the wall behind but here is a before…

 

This is a swatch where we tested the paint to see if we would like it.

 

The girls got in on the painting action

 

Here are a few “after” shots.  The walls are a little darker than the picture shows.

First Communion pictures

Tonight Megan had 1st Communion pictures.  After school I took her to get her hair trimmed and styled.   Here is a sneak preview at my baby girl.

 

EARTH DAY 2010

Yesterday was Earth Day.  The girls school celebrated the day by cleaning and beautifying the school and the local park right next door to the school!

After school t he children were divided up in groups with an adult leader.  The different groups mulched, picked up litter, cleaned up sticks, remove dead plants and weeds, etc.

I volunteered to be a leader of one of the groups.  Our group was in charge of pulling weeds out of the island in the school parking lot.  Wow, what a task that was!  After we pulled the weeds (and probably lots of non-weeds) the kids decorated brown paper grocery bags with Earth Day themes and decorated the school sidewalks with sidewalk chalk!  The bags will be used at the Vandalia Kroger this weekend!

 

Easter

Another Easter has come and gone!  The girls and I did our traditional visit to my parents house in Chillicothe.  Ron drove us to Jeffersonville where we met my mom and she drove us to Chillicothe.  Ron and his mom came to Chillicothe on Easter Sunday for dinner and Ron was nice enough to drive us all back to Vandalia!

WARNING:  Lots and lots of pictures coming….

Friday night we ate at Long John Silver’s and then headed to my parents house to hang out.  Saturday morning we got up and went in to town.  My parents and the girls surprised me with a stop in JC Penny’s for a new Easter dress for ME!  The girls picked out some dresses for me to try on and once it was narrowed down to two dresses we all voted.

I ended up with this one…

After dress shopping we went to lunch at BW3. They have the best salsa and chips!  Mmmmm.   Once our bellies were full we had to go Easter shoe shopping for Emily and me.  We both found some we loved at Payless!  Whew!

Saturday night my mom went to Easter Vigil Mass and we stayed home with my dad and dyed Easter eggs.

 

Sunday morning we woke up to find the Easter Bunny had been to G&G house!

Easter Bunny hid eggs with money in them!

After the girls went through their baskets we ate breakfast and got ready for church.

Shortly after we got home from church, Ron and his mom arrived!  The girls were happy to see Daddy.  My brother arrived a few minutes later so we all sat down and stuffed ourselves with yummy food!