Easter Activities

We have been so blessed to have made the friends here in Georgia that we have. We belong to an incredible church and they've got some outstanding events that they plan for kids. So this Easter, we were REALLY busy between events with my MOMS Club® chapter and our church!!

On Good Friday, we went to the third annual Easter Egg Hunt and Potluck that my chapter does. It was such a great time, and this year Hugh was able to participate in his first egg hunt. Unfortunately, it was raining, but that didn't deter the kids from having fun in the rain!!

On Saturday, April 19th we went to CTK for their Easter Eggstravangaza and enjoyed the petting zoo, games, crafts, egg hunt, and then this year they had the first ever men's BBQ championship. Steve volunteered to help with a team, but then I was asked to take pictures for the church, so he helped with the boys so I could take pictures. We had a great time and even made new friends!

 

 

On Easter Sunday, we got up and headed to the breakfast at church and then enjoyed Easter service. I always get so emotional at the Easter service, and it was another wonderful day. We want to keep the focus of Christmas and Easter on the true meaning (Christ). Instead of putting out a plate of carrots for the bunny and then having Easter baskets when we wake up... we told Gus that the bunny "might" come while we're at church. He was totally okay with this and was eager to go to church.

On the way to church, we were talking about Easter and Gus said, "They put him in a cave and then when they rolled away the rock, he was gone!" I said, "That's right!" Gus then said, "But he came back." I said, "Yes, you're right! He did come back!" and with that, Gus said, "As the Easter Bunny!" LOL  We were happy that he got the first part right...  ;-)  We got home from church and I ran in to quickly get the baskets assembled and then they were able to come in and see what the bunny left for them. It was a great day. We had a tiny ham for dinner, potato salad, baked beans, and rolls.

 When he came in and saw his basket he said, "OH MY GOODNESS!!"

 Hugh's basket

 Gus's basket

We hope you had a wonderful Easter!

AncestryDNA House Party

A few weeks ago, I applied to host an Ancestry.com DNA House Party. I thought it'd be so great to do the test with Hugh and see what his paternity lineage is.

We'll never know his paternal side, and due to how he was conceived, we'll never be able to tell him anything about his paternal side. Children wonder about this kind of thing, and so I thought I'd apply for the party with the hopes of being selected.

Well... I was selected! Hugh's DNA test came at the end of March and it was not the typical cheek swab that I was expecting. We had to have him fill up a container with spit!! Not an easy task with a 15 month old!!

It took about 35 minutes to get the vile filled with enough saliva! We mailed it to Ancestry.com and then a few days ago, I got an email saying that they received the sample.

So now we wait. And then on June 7th, we will announce to friends and family what the results were at the House Party! I'm eager to see what it says but not very hopeful that it'll be as specific as I'd like. 

I was looking online and reading blogs about this, and most people disagree with their findings and many said it was inaccurate. Without having anything to go on with his paternal side, we'll just have to hope that we get accurate info. We may choose to do another test later down the road, that's more specific, but for now, I'm hoping it'll give us a better idea of his ethnicity.

I want to be able to give him some information about where his roots are when he asks. I am so thankful to have an open adoption with his birth mom, and have already been asking her about her lineage and started a family tree with the information. It's interesting that Ancestry.com doesn't have an easier feature for creating a tree with an adopted child. It won't let us merge trees to create (what we like to call) an orchard.

No matter what the results are, I'm excited that we were picked and I am eager to hear anything that they were able to capture from his saliva.

Anyone want to guess what his paternal ethnicity is?