Happy Easter!

It's close to being over - but today was Easter and it was a beautiful day.  I appreciated the fact that Easter was a little later in the date this year.  It gave our winter an opportunity to be over and help spring.

We got up this morning, got dressed, and wore nice pastels for church.  My hubby and son wore peach pin striped shirts.  Hubby had a light green tie with a faint white design and our son wore the same green in a T under his shirt.  I had a white dress with a scattered peach floral design and elbow length peach sweater and our daughter had a white dress with pink and lavender and a lavender elbow sweater.  I think it all went very well together. 

Our church had an Easter egg hunt for two age groups which consisted of 11,000+ eggs.  As we were leaving the kids seemed to really be enjoying themselves.

Well, gotta put some pictures in.  I gave both my kids (and dogs) an Easter basket.

 

Our daughter's basket

Our son's basket

Scottie's basket

Baylee's basket

Here was the real surprise in the Easter baskets:

#52 Clay Matthews jersey's - both were happy with these.

Now just some fun stuff that was around the house for decorating.

...and what is Easter without decorating a few eggs?

These were the easiest eggs ever.  Instead of boiling water.  Using a hard-boiled egg just simply pour vinegar over the egg, using a strainer, then pour the color over that.  It is amazing how well the color sticks.  More vibrant than I have ever had.

Hope you and yours had a fabulous Easter celebration and like the Christmas Season, took a few moments to focus on what the true meaning is all about.

Spring Break

Who goes North for spring break?  We'll we do of course! We went north to Wisconsin to visit family and see my father-in-law's new home.  While there they had an open house for us and an uncle and aunt who was visiting from Colorado.  It was nice to have everyone congregate at one place instead of having to run all over the place trying to visit different family members.  This is about a six hour drive.  We made one stop for gas, food and a beverage (and of course the bathroom).  So, our arrival time was great.  We left around 10:00 and arrived just a little after 3:30.  Great timing.  This is one of the best welcome signs I've seen.

 

 

 

Just in case you were wondering, yes we did see snow on the ground.  But most of it was melted - thank God.  We've seen enough of our own snow this year. 

So hubby got to see aunts, uncles, grandmother, and cousins.  We arrived on Friday and spent the evening at the house and ordeedr pizza.  On Saturday we got up had breakfast and then did some shopping.  We always enjoy going to their Kohls, Penney's and K-Mart for Greenbay Packer items.  We didn't have a lot of luck with that since football season is over but we still managed to get a jersey for our son at a ridiculous price because the Penney's there is closing.  We also got a packer frame and light switch cover for our son's room which, of course, is all Greenbay Packer.  We grabbed some pretzel covered mini hot dogs and the food court from Wetzels Pretzels.  Didn't even know they had those because I hadn't been to Wetzels in a long time.  They were great.  This was a little snack until we got lunch.  Later our dinner was at Applebees.  The day was pretty full and I was wore out.  Especially since just getting over the flu the previous two weeks.  Sunday arrived and we got up and helped dust, run the sweeper, and cleaned bathrooms for the other guests that would be arriving and then started putting out the spread of finger foods.  Nothing too exciting there - and nothing hot.  Everything was cold.  Sausage and cheese, crackers, fruit tray, pickle tray, and chips and salsa.  Oh, and cookies and one aunt made lemon bars and some sort of apple tart.

Monday and it's time to hit the road.  We didn't really leave as early as I would have liked especially since we were scheduled to leave on Sunday but because of the open house we were asked to stay until Monday.  That was okay but I really wasn't wanting to spend another day there.  I wanted to get home to get things done, so I lost a day.  Today is Tuesday and I kept thinking it was Monday.  Now tomorrow is Wednesday and where has the week gone??

Well, nothing like "back home again in Indiana".  I don't care who doesn't like Indiana.  It's my home and I wanted to be home to sleep in my bed and see my dogs and . . . . . . . . . .  (you get the idea).