Luke and his dad went to his first Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. They had so much fun!
Luke and Jeff painted his car a metallic green - it was awesome!
A look at some of the cool cars...
Luke didn't come in first place with speed - (he was 6th) - but he's No. 1 in his friends' book!
A few days later, I checked on it and this is what I found!
Here, Drew and Luke are looking at the nest on Easter Sunday.
Two eggs hatched, but the other one never did. The mama and papa birds did a great job caring for her two little ones. They flew away two weeks after this photo was taken - boy that is fast!
Wake up Holly!
Wake up Noel!
The Easter Bunnies have come!
It's time for cinnamon rolls, honeydew, and turkey sausages!
Let's look for candy-filled eggs in the backyard!
And hard-boiled eggs inside!
The Easter Bunny has filled our baskets with chocolate candy, Peeps, jelly beans and other goodies! We need to go look for them!
Grams gets to come over to visit us!
She is bringing fun presents like bird nest soaps!
We get to have ham, broccolini, baked beans, green salad with homemade bleu cheese dressing and rolls.
And what's for dessert? Mini Angel Food Cakes with fresh strawberries and cream!
Can you believe it???
The gray one is Soot.
And the black one is Ash.
They are outside kitties (in the garage mostly) as Drew and I are allergic to them. And the dogs really want to - shall I say - PLAY with them? So we keep them separated! Ha! Ha!
Even Jeff is taking a liking to the kitties, which I never thought he would. But how can you not like such a cute little thing???
They get a little mischievous but not into too much trouble...
And they climb onto nearly everything! Yesterday, I came into the garage and they had fallen asleep in my bicycle basket! How adorable is that!?!?
We boiled 60 eggs this year so we'd be able to have lots of fun coloring them with the kids. It was great having Drew and Holly back for Easter this weekend too!
Jeff got into it also. He wrote each of the kids names on an egg and dyed it. On the right side of this photo, you can see our Easter Egg Tree.
I bought several hollowed out eggs when we were in Salzburg, Austria where they cut designs into them and paint them so beautifully. I bought some cherry tree branches from Michael's Crafts, put them in a spring green colored vase and then hung the Austrian eggs with ribbon all over the branches! It was my favorite decoration this year!
Shera (always in her pajamas) had great fun and even "borrowed" some of my eggs to color too!
Noel made a watermelon egg!
Some of our finished product on Easter Sunday (after the deviled eggs).
Last Saturday, we witnessed Brad and Roberta's newly adopted daughter, Talia, get sealed to her new family in the San Diego Temple.
Their family has been waiting for this for 2 years and finally are now blessed with a sweet little daughter and sister!
My precious little niece ~ Talia Starr ***
