They do love each other!

He is Risen! Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter weekend! I think it's so easy to get caught up in our day to day lives and forget that we are all sinners and that it is only because of Christ and His love for us that we are redeemed. Praise the Lord for giving us the Easter season to remind us of the beautiful gift we have!

My whole family was in town and we've spent every night since Friday at my parents', eating, drinking, dyeing eggs, having impromptu egg-throwing contests (both vertical and horizontal), impromptu choreographed dancing, and of course more eating! It was a great time to hang out with the family.

On Sunday we joined Mom and Dad at their new church, Incarnation, in Dallas. It was a lovely service and I really enjoyed the music, sermon, flowers, and the beautiful stained glass of the church! I'm really happy my parents have found a new church home with some old friends and a rector they love.

After church we went back to Mom and Dad's and ate a HUGE brunch. Mom assigned us all jobs this year, and I was in charge of the strawberry cake. I made it from scratch and it turned out great! But my real accomplishment were the Easter cake pops I made. See pics below and a link to the blog were I got the recipe. We had our first annual big kid's egg hunt. It was ridiculous but really fun!

The kids have a meeting

An update on the Wallaces

Well, after two weeks in the hospital it seems that God has been listening to our prayers and Dustin is on the road to recovery!!!! Dustin's birthday was on Friday and we joined a few other friends and family to have a small surprise party for him in the food court at Medical City. Although it was not the best of places to celebrate, I think Dustin had a good birthday and it was great to see him! Kate posted a picture of Dustin last week and there is SUCH a positive difference this week. He has more color and just overall looks healthier this week. David told me he has had his staples removed and he might get to go home as soon as Monday or Tuesday!! Praise the Lord!! I also got to visit with Kate and Nora for a little while, and both seem to be holding up well. Nora held my hands and we walked around the food court for a couple minutes as we waited to surprise Dustin.

Thanks to all for the continued prayers and support of our good friends!

Don't you wish you could live in Germany?

Then you could go to the annual beard festival! :/ Look really close, there's a bicycle 'sculpture' in there somewhere!

Funny.... at least to me:

I heard this somewhere and thought it was funny.

"You know, if you watch the movie JAWS backwards, all it is about is a giant shark that throws up people until he opens a beach."

I don't know why I think this is so funny, except for it's probably one of my favorite movies. :)

Updates!

Thanks to everyone who has prayed for the Wallace family over the past week! I know God has heard our prayers and please continue to pray as Dustin, Kate, and baby Nora have a road to recovery that is not nearly over. Dustin had another surgery Wednesday and spent the night in the ICU. Everything I've heard is that the surgery went "as well as can be expected" and my understanding is that he may be able to go home in a week or so. You can visit Kate and Dustin's blogto get much more detailed information. I am definitely saying a prayer of Thanksgiving that Dustin is doing better!

In the seemingly endless saga of "David's job hunt", David had a ton of action this week! Thank you all for the prayers for God to help us with this!!! I think he had about six different interviews, both phone and face-to-face this week. Here's where we stand: the doc in Jacksonville, IL (whom we were going to visit this weekend) decided to go with an associate doctor already holding an IL license. As disappointing as this might seem, at least he cut to the chase and didn't drag the waiting out for THREE WEEKS; he also let us know so we didn't waste our money driving up there. David spoke to a doctor on the phone from Colorado Springs (a place I would LOVE to live!) but she already has two candidates and we probably won't hear back from her. David was supposed to have a second phone interview with the doctor from Rockford, IL, but that had to be rescheduled for next week. He did a phone interview with a company in Dallas that is weird, if nothing else, but he will have a second interview next week. He also received a questionnaire from an all-female office in Houston. The questionnaire turns out to be used by Scientologists. Between the Scientology and the all-girl practice, I think we're going to let that lead go....

AND NOW, FOR THE BEST NEWS:

David had a phone interview earlier in the week with a doctor in Houston by the galleria and was asked to come in for a face-to-face interview. We (David, Lauren, Chewie, and Sammy) all piled in the Rouge and spent the night Wednesday with David's parents in Willis so David could get up early Thursday morning to go to the interview. It went really well, and among other things David learned that he's in the "final two"!!!!! What great news for us! I'll let you all know when we hear the results, but in the meantime we're still searching for more open positions. I'm still interested in the job in Rockford, IL and he's put his CV in for a couple of cool opportunities in Seattle and Phoenix.


Thanks to everyone for the prayers and support!!!