Hunting Part 2, Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Joan's

I finished up with Bountiful Baskets in time to make it to my Grandma Joan's Annual Family Easter Egg Hunt at her house. This is the first time my kids have been here to be apart of it! It was so great. They had a picnic lunch first on the grass (good thing the weather tried to warm up, it has been such a cold spring, we weren't sure if it would be nice or not!) and then I made it there in time to help hide candy and eggs. Then all the grandkids had lots of fun hunting. This was an event I was glad to be able to go to, something I haven't been able to do in years. It is nice to live back home, close to so much family. I lOVE it!

The whole gang who were able to make it (but only a fraction of grandma Joan's posterity!)

I loved grandma Joan's note where not to hid eggs.

Happy Easter 2011!

(check out the popcorn popping behind us!)

Hunting Part 1

While I did Bountiful Baskets that morning, Tommy took the kids to an Easter Egg Hunt at Cow Hollow Park. They had a good time.

Evelynne, Kenzie, Howie, Livy and Briggs

silly kids: pre hunt silliness

one of our favorite family friends/neighbors: Norm with one of his grandkids, Stella. Norm is such a cute grandpa.

The gang (plus Ely and Crayton) along with our family friends: Cindi with her daughter Stella and niece Brooklyn.

Coloring Eggs

Cousins Coloring Eggs

PEEPS

I have this thing for Peeps. I LOVE them. Not for eating however, but I think they are one of the cutest little Easter candies ever. I made a Peep bunting last year because I think they are so stinking cute. Well, it made the cutest little family/neighbor gift. The tag says, "Hoppy Easter to one of my favorite Peeps." I admit, I went a little overboard and made just a few :) ha ha. That just meant that I could give them to more people. Howie had fun helping me deliver them.

**(NOTE: I was informed that one neighbor's husband thought that I made the peeps homemade and raved that they tasted better than the store bought ones and looked like the real thing. I had a good laugh, it totally made my day that they thought I had made them better than the real thing. Watch our Martha Stewart, here I come!)

Can you see our little garden we are trying to start in the background? We will see how it goes.

Faith is like a little seed.....

We had a great Family Home Evening (FHE) with Grandma Joan. She is an uber talented women. I already posted about her oil painting abilities. She is also very knowledgeable with plants and growing things. She used to grow a green house full of plants and flowers for the family to plant in their gardens. She said it was too expensive to run the greenhouse this year so she didn't. (I hope maybe she will let me help her next year.) She did plant a few peppers and basil plant seedlings. We got together and she taught us how to transplant them into the four packs. Howie was super excited to plant a garden and wanted to start some other seeds. We brought our own seeds to plant: watermelon, sunflowers, enormous pumpkins, mini pumpkins, cucumbers, okra (for tommy), broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and zucchini. We had a great night and then had a short lesson about Faith being like a little seed, how we have to nourish it and provide the appropriate conditions to have it grow. It turned out very nice. It was was to have FHE with Grandma Joan, Jim and Kevin.

filling the four packs with potting soil

livy played with the dirt floor of the greenhouse

transferring the seedling

told you: dirt+livy=good time

howie planting his giant pumpkins

Howie Kevin and Livy