Easter!

Easter was a little different for us this year. My niece Kristina was baptized so we visited our former church instead of celebrating with our home church, Flipside. It was nice to see old friends, but we did miss our home!

After church we hosted about 35 people at our house for dinner. Keep in mind that my kitchen is not complete yet...I had a temporary sink, my dishwasher and the cook top in. (no oven!) Thankfully, everyone always pitches in and brings something for the meal! My cabinets are in and the counter tops should be complete today. (I'll try to put updated photos of the progression later this week.)

Anyhooo, after lunch we hid apx 100 real eggs and 40ish plastic eggs for all of the little cousins. They had a great time. What a wonderful day to celebrate...He is risen...He is risen indeed!

Superheroes!

Lizzie, Tori and cousin Nicky think they're pretty tough stuff!

So Proud!

(Kristina is on the far right.)

Our niece Kristina Regier is participating in a bike ride this week with her youth group. They're riding from Santa Cruz to Morro Bay, a total of 170 miles in six days! We are so proud of her!

Kristina is a leader in her youth group, plays several sports at Edison High, she's involved with Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is known on her campus as a Christian (do you know how rare that is?) She is not afraid to speak up about her faith. She is also a fabulous babysitter. One of our kids' favorites.

We love her dearly and always miss her if we don't see her frequently.

To keep up with her trip check out the bike trip blog. Love you Tina!

Lights Out

More than 107,000 individuals and over 6,700 businesses have taken this pledge ---
Please consider signing it --- turning your lights off for one hour -- from 8- 9 PM (local time)
on March 29th -- to show that we support legislation to stop global warming NOW--
http://www.earthhour.org/

Facebook, I believe I am addicted!

Being the new web content editor for Fresno Pacific University comes with some interesting challenges. One of my colleagues suggested I create a Facebook and Myspace profile. I must admit it has been quite fun. It is a great way for me to see how youths are communicating, and to see new and upcoming ideas on the web. I, myself, prefer Facebook. I am able to stream my blog directly into Facebook. Way cool! It is tons of fun. If you are a friend of the Alvey blog and have a Facebook account, let me know...we'll be come 'friends.' Have fun surfing!

Pasghetti, Birthday Cake and Pixie Dust

Yesterday, Lizzie pulled out her other top front tooth in the school library. The whole class was excited! So the tooth fairy once again decorated Lizzie's pillow with pixie dust.

Yesterday was also Kevin's birthday. We had made plans for Lori and Paul to watch the kids while we went out to dinner. So Uncle Paul took advantage of the time to prepare his famous "suck-the-pasghetti-through-the-hole-in-your-teeth" dinner for Lizzie. See photos and video. All of the sauce landed on her chin, so as to look like a goatee. Yum!

Lori and the girls made Kevin a birthday cake while we were out. Tori decorated it with the candles. It was beautiful!

Happy birthday Kevin. You are a wonderful husband and father. We love you!

Lizzie and the Spelling Bee

Yesterday was the big spelling bee at Lizzie's school, Sierra View. There were 10 finalists (out of about 60) for the second grade and Lizzie was one of them. In fact, she made it all the way to second place! She and a friend, Wyatt battled it out - they had to use third grades words for them to spell. It was so amazing to see these second graders spelling so well! Lizzie was very disappointed that she didn't win, she vows to be more prepared next year! We are so proud of her!

(She got tripped up on the word listening...Lizzie's version: lisenting)

One of her words...feathers.