Happy Easter!

Hey friends! Happy Easter/Passover :) I was talking to Emily Hetu about which holiday was my favorite and I thought about it. Christmas is of course an amazing time of year, and also an amazing day because it's the birth of our Lord. But, it's really unfortunate what Christmas has turned into. Partially because of the greed and self-centeredness some people show while so much of the world is suffering, but also because of the fact that the non-Christian world has taken a Christian holiday and tried to make it have nothing to do with Christ. It does. No one takes Jewish holidays and tries to make them unJewish, why Christian ones? Get over it, it started because that's the day Christians celebrated the birth of their Lord. If you want an atheist holiday make one, but don't take a Christian one and try to make it unChristian. That might sound stupid, but I think when I said it the first time it was pretty impactful, at least to me. I felt like I learned something. So anyway, my answer was Easter, not only because I love Easter plays and spring and bright colored dresses, but because no one can deny that Easter is about Jesus. Yea we have bunnies and egg hunts and stuff but still, it isn't about spending billions on unnecessary stuff for each other. Also, Easter is celebrating Jesus' resurrection, which is what makes Him, and Christianity, different than all other gods and religions. :)

So Easter! We were SO blessed to spend Easter Sunday with Tiffany and Ben Keesey at Tiffany's family house in Irvine. Tiffany's mom is the cutest and we got to meet a lot of her family. Dinner was awesome and we got to relax and hang out with the Keeseys as friends rather than coworkers. Then we FINALLY cleaned Baxter and had team dinner. Then the boys got weird while I was driving, as usual. Great Easter.

I want to tell you a terrible story about a snake that Emily told me! So Emily's friend had a big snake, either a python or a constrictor or something. Whatever it was, it was a really big snake. But it was a friendly snake so at night she would let it sleep curled up at her feet like a dog. I know, not normal, but she did it. At one point the snake stopped eating the mice and rats she would try to feed it. It didn't eat for about a week so she took it to the vet to see what was wrong. The vet ran a couple tests and couldn't find anything wrong so he asked if the snake was doing anything else funny. She mentioned that he was. In fact, she noticed that at night he stopped sleeping curled up next to her but slept alongside next to her, cuddled like a person. The doctor told her she needed to put the snake back in its cage and never take it out again. She asked why and he told her that the snake had been starving itself and stretching out next to her to measure her because it was preparing to eat her. ?!?!?!?!?!?!? So crazy right?! I'm SO mad at that snake, the nerve!! Ugh. I'm leaving you with that :) Happy Easter, don't sleep with snakes, and come to The Rescue on April 25th in a town near you.