Linda’s sister and family were coming to town, so it was decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to get family photos taken. It’d been about 6 years since the last family photo was taken and there was no official family photo with Helen (the youngest of the clan).

We met on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at Antioch Park with Jordan Tankel and whipped through the different sets in about 45 minutes. What an efficient photo shoot – especially with young kids.

If you’d like to see more of the photos, head over to jtphoto.zenfolio.com to see more.

It’s been since June 6 since the last post…

Where has time gone? What the heck have we been doing?

The following things have occurred:
1. Anna went to Germany with her high school orchestra

2. Emily spent many afternoons at physical therapy for a knee injury

3. We saw Kenny Chesney in concert…yet again

4. Anna got her wisdom teeth removed

5. Linda and I biked Michigan and Wisconsin for 4 days with friends

6. Anna and Emily went to church youth camp

7. I’ve worked a lot of hours in the ER – but we’ve hired a new partner

8. I got a new car

It is my hope to talk about these things over the next few days. The more things piled on and the days grew longer, it seemed as if I couldn’t just jump back in to the blog without talking about these events as if they didn’t happen.

Anyways – here’s to getting back to regular blogging and recording what’s going on with the Featherstons in Kansas.

I was going through old pictures last night and loading them to Flickr so that they’d be saved somewhere else other than my computer. This is a particularly good idea for anyone out there – especially since Flickr now gives you a full terabyte of free storage space.

You can see all of these photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59113807@N00/sets/

Anyways, I was having a blast going through the old pictures when I found the following picture with Anna and Sally. It’s amazing how patient and loving this dog really is…

Here it is on May 2nd and I’m looking out the window at big snowflakes coming down. The past few days were in the upper 70s and today is in the low 30s. There is a chance for 3-5 inches of snow before the end of tomorrow. What a surprise.

I must admit it is quite beautiful to see the big white flakes falling in front of the trees with green leaves. The snow collecting on the green grass is an odd sight. The snow is starting out very wet which makes me nervous that it will be heavy and collect on the growing leaves, causing branches to break and come down.

The saddest part (aside from not enjoying 70-80 degree weather) is that the tulips are in bloom and looking gorgeous. Here they are at the beginning of the snowfall:

This picture was picked up off Twitter by KMBZ, one of the local news channels, and posted during their 5-o’clock news (they had my permission).

Here’s hoping the snow doesn’t last long and Spring returns with the smile that it showed yesterday!

Lent is over and we now celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus. After forty days of self-denial, prayer, fasting, and alms-giving, we now rejoice and celebrate the empty tomb.

Happy Easter, friends and family. May God truly bless you.

On the first day of the week,
Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”
So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.
They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and arrived at the tomb first;
he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
When Simon Peter arrived after him,
he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,
and the cloth that had covered his head,
not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.
Then the other disciple also went in,
the one who had arrived at the tomb first,
and he saw and believed.
For they did not yet understand the Scripture
that he had to rise from the dead. (John 20:1-9)