Easter, April Fool's & Wisdom Teeth

Meagan and Zac went to church with us on Easter, which was nice. Zac had gone paintballing with his brothers the day before, so he was stiff and sore, but he made it around. I did Sharing Time on Easter about following Jesus' example. I've also been studying the last week of Christ's life, since it's been Easter-time. He was certainly busy during his last week. Interesting that he died (and was resurrected) during Passover. Christ was the ultimate Passover sacrificial lamb. God really likes to use symbolism. Sometimes it takes me awhile to catch on to it, though. After church, we came home and everyone got their Easter basket. Apparently Zac really likes Peeps - he ate all 5 of his Peeps as soon as he got his basket. After that, we had Easter Dinner (ham, funeral potatoes, sweet potatoes, asparagus and rolls). Then we put a pumpkin pie and an apple pie in the oven. While we were waiting for the pies to cool, David and I fell asleep. Actually, David fell asleep before the pies were done cooking. After we ate pie, we went to Mom and Dad's and visited them and Sheri and David. David J was excited because at 11:30 that night he was going to board an Amtrak train and travel to visit his WOW friend Zach (not sure of the spelling?). His train was scheduled to arrive Monday afternoon, then he was to catch a bus to his final destination. So, I suppose he's having an adventure exploring the big city now. I asked David if he was going to go visit Cameron. He had the encyclopedia on the kitchen table and had just discovered his destination is about 140 miles from Cameron and Zach doesn't have a car, just a bicycle. So, I guess David won't be visiting Cameron. It's probably not allowed anyway... I went to the temple again last Thursday. It was nice, but waayyyyy more crowded than the week before. Last time there was me and 1 other woman in the waiting room. This time it was me and 20 other women in the waiting room. But it was still nice and peaceful. Love the peacefulness of the temple. We've been reading the Book of Mormon as a family. We seem to be able to stick to scripture reading better with the Book of Mormon than anything else. We're near the end of Alma, where Moroni and Ammoron are sending not very nice epistles back and forth to each other. Moroni was pretty sneaky, which worked out well for the Nephites. I mailed Cameron an Easter card and Easter box. USPS tracking said the box was delivered at 10:43 am on Friday March 29th, so I'm assuming he got it. Now I have to ship back Cameron's extra pair of glasses sometime this week. He mailed back the checkbox letter in the SASE I sent him and even drew pictures of frogs and a "fish" on it and wrote a letter to me on the back of it. David's birthday was yesterday. I had the day off work, but I was so exhausted, we were lucky to make it to CostCo and put together his birthday dinner. We had his usual birthday dinner - chicken cordon bleu, rice, cooked veggies (cauliflower and mixed veggies this time around - usually it's broccoli), and, of course, red velvet cake and ice cream. It's a good thing David reminded me to get him a birthday present! He got a special edition DVD set of "The Hobbit" with a 62-page book. He was happy with that. (He should have been - he picked it out himself.) Jarom got his wisdom teeth pulled this morning. His appointment was at 9:00 am and he was ready to go before I was! We got to the oral surgeon's about 8:45 and only had to wait a few minutes for Jarom to get called back for his surgery. This time they let David and I go back until the doctor came in to do the surgery. Jarom went to Dr. Urban, the same doctor Cameron went to. He was good with Cameron and he still takes our insurance, so it all worked out. The oral surgeon Meagan went to was good, too, but he's wasn't on our insurance list anymore. The doctor and his assistant both said the surgery went very smoothly. Jarom didn't talk much when we went to the back to pick him up. On the ride to Iceberg, he wrote on the back of an envelope so he wouldn't have to talk. Jarom chose an orange cheesecake milkshake. He didn't get a hot fudge cheesecake milkshake like Cameron and Meagan did, so David got one. This time David let me drive home, so he wasn't swerving all over the place trying to drive and consume his milkshake. Thank goodness. Jarom is now asleep on the couch and very grateful for painkillers.