Easter Egg Hunt

I love Easter time. I love the memories from long ago of little girls in white hats and gloves, and pastel Easter dresses and yellow fuzzy chicks and tulips and lilacs. When I was a child I loved the colored candy eggs they don't make any more that had a white nougat in them. We would play for hours with our Easter candy and Easter grass, making winding roads with jelly beans. Here is a picture of me and Julie taken in 1959 which recalls those days.

Now, as a grandma, I love having an Easter egg hunt, and putting little tiny stuff into little tiny containers! 

The hunt was ON for 2014:

Psssst, Eli,it's right behind you by the shed!

I love this photo below where Calvin is off to the races and Tony is trying out my early mother's day present - A HAMMOCK!! As you can see it was enjoyed by one and all.

(...yikes, I'm dragging bottom!)

I can't make this photo of Jane flip around, so I'll post it twice....

Gorgeous Lauren and popcorn popping on the apricot tree.

Vivi is holding an eraser that is a miniature can of soda with a straw. "Little stuff held by a cute little girl"

Ahhh, beautiful Jane, contemplating the meaning of life. Or possibly scoping out where the rest of her yellow eggs are hidden!

Super cute Emma Claire wore super cute purple to match her purple eggs!

Reagan Elizabeth in all her fabulousness as she gathers her orange eggs (with Cal's help).

And Calvin has to have one more picture because he's so dang darling. He was soooo sad when he found out he couldn't take the plastic eggs home. Maybe next year I'll change the rules. Although then he'll be old enough to understand.

Aunt Denny and Emma glowing with loveliness and enjoying themselves in the swing.

And we also did some gardening. We planted jelly beans into the planter box in the back yard;

 ....watered them carefully with special magic water........

 and when we came back outside to check on them - they'd grown into Tootsie pops! AMAZING!

 

We ate lovely Costco-prepared foods. I told Dennis I didn't want to cook, I just wanted to go to Costco and load up. So we did. I forgot all about the miniature eclairs I bought. I now have a box of 100 in my refrigerator. Anyone want to come over?

Emma brought her ukelele (it belonged to Grandpa Hiatt and he gave it to her for her 10th birthday!). She and Denny seranded us with "You put the lime in the coconut" because it only has one chord. It was hilarious.

 Reagan brought her uke too and she and Emma also figured out a few tunes

 HAPPY EASTER!!!

P.S.

We just got back from St. George a couple of hours ago and here are a couple photos from there. This was taken from the bluff above the city. It was rainy and overcast the whole time we were there - but it sure was beautiful this morning when we left!

 Gary and Linda's good sides. 

This is my prize photo. Isn't it a hoot? We saw "Heaven is For Real" and were extreeeeeeemely early. We really liked it. The cute little boy in the movie reminded me so much of Wyatt!

Love, Mom

P.P.S. Remember my little pea shoots? I should use them as an object lesson on the winds of adversity being necessary to help us grow. I put them outside to toughen them up and the winds of adversity shook their flimsy little roots that were hot-house weak and now I only have one left. You can see one of her collapsed comrads next to her. I hope she makes it!