Little update, Baby Brady, and Chocolate Lover's Day

So it's been a few days since my last update so I'll start with this past weekend.

Friday afternoon, we packed up the car and headed down to Beckley, WV to visit my Aunt a couple days and attend an Egg-stravaganza she invited us too. The trip down was wonderful. Jaren slept most of the way and Jesse and I just goofed off, sang, reflected, held hands, talked, and sometimes just drove in silence enjoying the view. It was wonderful!! We met my Aunt at KFC and picked up some dinner and headed to her sister's house to get ready for the evening at Church. Dinner was great and it was nice to just sit and talk with everyone. Jaren was ecstatic. One of Elizabeth's dogs name was Cookie, so every time someone yelled at the dog, he looked around reaching, thinking he was getting a cookie. He's so funny!!
After dinner we headed to the Church where their drama team performed 'Jesus Messiah' It was beautiful. Lot's of song and dance. Afterwards we headed back to my Aunt Brenda's to get ready for bed, and prep ourselves for Saturday.
We woke up early on Saturday, and got ready and headed back to Beckley for the egg hunt. This wasn't your normal every-day Easter Egg Hunt this was 'Operation Egg Drop'! It was at the Family Worship Center in Beckley in their large field they have located next to the Church. Through donation they received 10,000 eggs that were filled with candy and change and were going to be dropped from helicopters into the field. It was great seeing the kids faces. It was cold and wet, but everyone came out for a great day of worship and fellowship. We had to sit in the car once and warm up while waiting for the egg drop. Finally at 2:30p the rumble of helicopter propellers filled the sky! The first up to hunt eggs were ages 0-6years. It was a little frustrating because it was not announced just how much money the eggs would contain, so parents were taking the hunt far to seriously. I got pushed 3 times, and didn't end up getting any pictures. Jesse wanted to block off one egg for Jaren to pick up((he would have been so proud to show me that egg)), but a mother was dragging her child through the mud to get to the eggs, Jesse had to stop and pick the poor 3 or 4 year old up out of the mud and set him back on his feet. Needless to say, Jaren did not get a single egg, but it's okay, we still had a great day. We headed back to Grafton shortly after the egg hunt to get Jaren ready for bed, and to go meet up with the Easter Bunny. OH BOY DID WE HAVE FUN :) :)

Easter Sunday was wonderful! We woke up bright and early, and the Easter Bunny had delivered Jaren's basket downstairs!!! He had so much fun pulling the eggs out of his basket, as well as the little toys he had gotten. We started getting ready for Church and brought him upstairs for him to find the eggs that had been hidden all throughout the living room. Since the egg hunt didn't go so well the day before, we decided to have him a little one here. HE LOOOOVED IT!!!

Church was amazing, we completely misunderstood how the services were going to be, so we missed the sonrise service, but we did go to the family worship event at 10:00. The choir put on a great performance as well as the drama kids. After Church we came home and feasted. THE FOOD WAS GREAT!!! YAY MOM!

Anyway, the rest of the week has just been chiropractor appointments and playtime with Jaren!!! Wednesday I had my 6 month prenatal checkup and everything is going great! I've gained 8lbs so far and the Brady is growing good. We finally have my c-section scheduled and now officially have a deadline for finding a house.

Speaking of finding a house....Jesse has a job interview Monday at the Hazelton Federal Prison in Preston County. So if you could pray with us on this situation, we would greatly appreciate it.

TOMORROW...OH TOMORROW, not only is tomorrow Saturday, but tomorrow is 'Chocolate Lover's Day!! That's right folks the chocolate festival in Morgantown. I've never been to a chocolate festival, but I'm looking forward to this one! It's in downtown Morgantown, and over 40 vendors are participating. The way this works is you register at the beginning, and you are given a map and a stamp. As you stroll downtown Morgantown stopping at each vendor to sample chocolate you collect points. At the end of the festival, you are registered by your points to win a family 4 pack of tickets to Hershey Park in PA. I don't really care if we win the tickets because I can't really ride rides right now or anything, but how fun to just spend the day as a family, strolling through Morgantown and EATING CHOCOLATE!!! Oh did I mention its possibly going to be 70 degrees! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't really have anything else exciting to report. I hope you all are doing well! WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!