Easter

 Some of my favorite moments from a great Easter Sunday...

 

I've been taking care of the farm for some friends of ours who are on break, and I woke up at 7am to their whole house shaking with rain and wind, and it was pitch black! Then within 10 min the rain totally stopped and the sunrise was glorious! Just like it must have been on that first Easter...

 When I got back to my house, and everyone found their Easter baskets, we all spent the next half hour cracking up at Joycie bouncing all over the house, yelling, "Hucky Barms! Hucky Barms!" (Lucky Charms, a treat that I don't think she's ever even had before, but somehow knew was worth dancing for)

...but apparently Joycie wasn't the only one excited about Lucky Charms... during breakfast, I heard Danny mutter, "Yes!" and looked over to see that he had extracted every piece of cereal except the marshmallows, and was looking forward to a delicious last few bites :D (If you haven't done this before, you obviously haven't fully enjoyed a bowl of Lucky Charms)

 Church was great, but I didn't take any pictures, so this next moment is from when Danny and I drove out to do the farm work in the evening... Amazing what God can do, no?

When we got home we found that Oak had been spending his time very productively as well... He opened a Microsoft Excel sheet, taped the mouse clicker down so it just kept scrolling, and watched it to see how far it'd go. Apparently Excel can only handle one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-six rows at once :P Who would have guessed?

 To finish the night we gathered downstairs, and read through the Easter story, then watched some hilarious family videos. As you can see, we were very reverent.

Well Happy Easter everybody! Just as a last thought, if you haven't seen this already, it's so worth 2min 44s of your life!

Because of Him

Wrong Side of the Law

 

Yup, you guessed it, I got pulled over. Danny, Oak and I were driving home from a youth devotional at our church, all dressed up in our Sunday best, and I decided to take a different way home. I turned right on a road out of town, and immediately realized I wasn't sure of the speed limit...

Me - "Danny, did you see a speed limit sign?"

Danny - "No, you're driving!"

Me - "I'm not sure if it's 70 or 100, so I'm just gonna go 80." (kilometers per hour, not mph :D)

Me - "There's a lot of cars behind us."

Danny - "Can you get pulled over for going too slow?"

Me - "You'd have to be holding up traffic. It doesn't really happen."

Barely a minute later, I checked my mirror again, and there was a police car right behind me! Still unsure of the speed limit I slowed down to 75 just in case... and his lights went on. I still wasn't sure if I had been going too fast, too slow, or had some other problem, but I pulled over, turned down the EFY music on my iPod, and rolled down the window.

He told me that he pulled me over cause I was going too slow! I apologized, and told him I had been unsure of the speed limit. He laughed and then asked me where I was from and how long we'd been here. (Is my accent really that obvious???) After I answered, he asked how we were enjoying Taranaki, and I said we were loving it. He seemed to like that. He checked that I had a full license, then had me do a breath test, and when it came up negative he glanced at our white shirts and ties and muttered, "I didn't think so." I laughed, he wished us a nice day, and that was that.

I think the best part of the whole episode was mom and dad's faces when I told them I got pulled over... *pause for suspense* ...for going too slow!

I googled "pulled over for going too slow" to see if how unique my experience is, and this is what I found :P

yup, that's me :P