This picture is of the worship team and my little brother's arm (hehe... he always jumps in front of the camera!!!) shari and lisa in their cute hats as the worship team led us in a fun song by David Crowder.

Their was so much joy as we celebrated Jesus being alive, it was so awesome! Then after church I went back to my house and my family was there so we ate Easter Dinner. My family is nuts, I love them but we are so crazy... I'll give you a recap- dogs running everywhere, andrew dancing to rap music, my uncle's bull dog isn't fixed so it literally humps anything, my uncle is a police chief and was on call so his radio was crazy, my nana orders people around, we are just one "big fat greek family" so there is lots of yelling and chaos, hehe but i still love my family and wouldn't trade them for the world. Here's a picture of our dogs... barking at nothing as usual... :-)

I would have to say though that one of my favorite memories from this weekend was with my little brother Andrew, if you guys think of it please pray for Him. The little guy (not so little anymore :-( struggles a lot after he had brain surgery when he was five. So he struggles a lot behaviorally. On saturday night he would not go to bed and pretty much just sat in his room banging things around. I felt like God wanted me to go talk to him, so I grabbed my geetar and asked him if I could play him a song to get him to go to sleep. He said yeah, and I told him to close his eyes. I played him "only you" one of the most practical songs I have ever been taught (it's coming in handy with putting kids to sleep :-) Andrew sang the first chorus with me, but by the end of the song he was completley out. That kid is precious sleeping, he may be a handful when he's awake but I just pray that God will continue to grow him. I also decided that I want to learn some more mellow songs, that have a lullabyish feel... I was just thinking how cool it would be for Andrew to have something to listen to when he goes to sleep when I'm home for the summer. Not to mention I decided that night that I hope I have kids someday that I can sing to sleep. I love playing and singing to kids, they don't care how good you are or how you sound, just that you love them enough to spend time with them.

As for all the decision making I was hoping to get to, God has been teaching me so much as I seek Him in prayer about certain things. I still have a lot of things that didn't get figured out, but we made some decisions. I am going to be going to May school, stinks that I lose two weeks of my summer, but it will be awesome to get the credits out of the way that I need. My schedule for next year should work out and I should be able to take everything that I want to take, and will be graduating next May... all I have to say is holy cow and I have no idea what I am going to do with my life, but I know God will direct me. I was recentley reminded of this- Jesus will NEVER fail me... so I have no doubt that even though I will only be twenty when I graduate with a bunch of dreams and nothing certain, that God will somehow use that, hehe :-) Let's see we also decided that the whole job thing won't work out because I will be gone so much, and even though I'm worried about all the things going on this summer and how I will come up with the money, my mom reminded me that God will provide. It has been so awesome to see how much my mom and step-dad have grown in their faith. My family is struggling due to doug getting laid off, but to hear how much they trust in God's provision has been so encouraging to me. Money for Namibia is coming in slowly... pretty sure I still have like half of my trip to pay for, but again that is another thing I just need to trust God with. So yeah, although I have no idea what this summer will hold or how everything will work out I'm just going to keep living each minute at a time and keep giving everything over to God. Which this minute I have to go do my homework so I'm off :-)

love you all! Keep seeking after Him in everything!