Easter Fun at Our House!

Our Easter Celebration in pictures...

The table is set...The baskets are ready.....

The Table is set......

And everyone arrives after church.....

Mom & Ruthie

Trilby, Mike & boys

Kerry & boys(Travis is in TX)

Tasha, Kyle & girls

Trina, Tanner, & family --It was Evalie's first time at our house.

And then we ate....

The kids are getting instructions for the Easter egg hunt, and they are taking it very seriously!

The Hunt....

It was a beautiful day, so a fire was in order.

We had a little cousin lesson by a tree.  If you look carefully you can see our city boy peeking through the tree.

Then it was time for bunny cake and funny faces!

Other random pics.....

It was a crazy busy day, but we had a great time! 

Family Time!

Since we are going to Texas for Easter we had our family celebration early.  We had everyone here except Mike who was home taking care of his sheep who are in the middle of lambing. We decided to keep it simple and let the kids off the hook for cooking this year.  So, I made all of the main dish, brownies, and cookies.  The local Amish bakery made the pies.  YUM!  I didn't even use all of the good dishes or put a centerpiece on the table.  And....we used paper napkins.  Yup, we were casual.

After dinner we had our usual Easter egg hunt.

Nate looked for his color--purple.

Grayson liked the chocolate as evidenced by his face!

Chance had his binoculars along for help spotting those eggs!

Clara was the resident "bag lady".
WELL, I CAN'T UPLOAD ANY MORE PHOTOS!! I'VE BEEN TRYING ALL WEEK, AND I JUST GET THE MESSAGE THAT MY PICASA ALBUM IS FULL, AND I NEED TO BUY MORE SPACE.  REALLY? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS USING A PICASA ALBUM.  CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT WITH THIS PROBLEM.

Catch Up Time!

Wow!  Where has the month gone????  I am going to try to post each day this week to kind of "catch up".  I actually have a few posts started, but none completed, so I'll work on finishing and posting those.

What have I been doing you ask?  Well, yard work has consumed a large amount of my free time in between school, meetings, and working in the basement.

Let's go back to Easter first!

We had dinner here on Easter Sunday, and all of the kids were here.  That rarely happens, but it makes me very happy when it does!

Chance got a pinwheel in his basket and is doing his best to make the darn thing work!

Grayson did a great job finding eggs for his basket!

Clara was a cute little flower!

Nate couldn't leave his Momma, as usual.

Payton and Cael had to work for their baskets by completing a scavenger hunt.  Here Cael has found his, but it's too high for him.  Help was on the way.

Here Payton finds clue #2 on his way to find his basket.

Another great day!