Easter Sunday

We had a great Easter! Instead of meeting indoors, we headed out to a secluded park very near the Clark residence and met under a pavillion and then hid and hunted eggs out in the grass and trees around us. Also, we decided to invite some additional people who don't usually meet with us -- a couple of sisters, Margaret and her daughter, and Shenli -- but mostly visitors with whom different ones of us have been working and hoping to share with. This informal setting, and the fact that we had something especially fun for the kids to do, made the perfect opportunity to invite them to meet with the larger family.



It's really difficult to know what this is going to look like once it's laid-out online, so you may have to just figure out what captions go with what pictures!

The kids all had lots of fun, of course. Liam had Caleb in stitches. [btw: The Clarks' cat nearly had Caleb in stitches, literally, earlier the same day when he suddenly lashed out and landed a pretty big scratch on Caleb's arm. Ouch!]

The Chinese kids had never had an egg hunt before, so it all new for them.

Audriana is the Beamons' little girl. Always cute.

We sang; Josh told a good story; family members shared the supper... all in a beautiful setting. And we were blessed by having the rain held off until later in the evening.

The lady in red on the right and the little girl in pink are Liona and her mom, friends of the Clarks, whom they met through the Egg Lady. Liona is the Egg Lady's neice; she's eleven.

The other lady in red is the "new and improved" Shenli.

The "other" American couple are the Beamons, Jay and Vikki and baby Joseph.

The other Chinese couple you can see clearly are friends of the Davises.

This last picture features (L-R) Jenn, Gao Yan, Cec, Margaret, and Shenli.