The Spring Trip to Andrea's

We had stations for all the cousins to rotate: coloring 96 Easter eggs went well except, Alec and Dante got the raw eggs. It was a real surprise when they tried to roll them by throwing them! This shows Connor and Dexton coloring their eggs.

Terril and Mya created a new way of rolling eggs. We had fun at the park down the street from Andrea's with the little kids while the big kids scattered the Easter eggs for the hunt in Andrea's backyard.

Melanie, Terra Sue and baby Vi enjoyed the activities.

Father and Daughter

Mellisa wanted a picture with her nieces but I didn't understand and ran to jump in the picture under Crystal who had tried to do the splits.

Our Easter Celebration

Our host was glad to find and kiss the lucky egg.

Our hostess painted these boxes for each child to decorate.
Our special thanks go to Dee and Andrea. THANK YOU!!!

One of the stations was to create a chalk mural on the wall.

Grammy Sue gave the real Grammy touch with face painting.
Dante wanted to be an Easter egg. What a good egg.

The Easter Pageant

A great high light for me was to drive from Queen Creek
to the Mesa Temple with Andrea, Kristin and baby Ayden.
We got seats for everyone. It was so exciting
when I saw Mellisa and her boys

and Crystal and her children come walking up the sidewalk.
I was so relieved that they made it from Albuquerque.

Makayla was so happy to see everyone.

Jaxon, Alec and Dante were silly boys who had been full
of life and energy on the entire trip to Mesa.
They were glad to be out of the car.

It was wonderful to sit there and watch the pageant with them.
I sat by Crystal and held Mya on my lap as we watched
the life of the Savior acted out.
What a feeling of love and peace!
I love the Savior and I love my family.
These are the two great loves of my life. What a blessing!

The Lamb Cake

When I was a child, Grandma Reese would make us lamb cakes.

I didn't like them because they had raisins and nuts besides it was
a dry hard carrot cake, BUT they were so cute with fluffy frosting
and coconut. I inherited Grandma's lamb cake mold. SO I decide to
make one for Easter. It is harder then it looks to make. When I
took it out of the oven the lamb had no ears so I took cake from
some cupcakes, made ears then glued them on. When I
told Hayze she looked surprised, "Grammy what kind of glue
did you use?" I told her it was frosting glue. Then Hayze
helped finish frosting the outside, color the cocnut and add jelly
beans. She is the real treat in this picture with her sweet SMILE.

I Spy With My Little Blue Eye

When Adisyn can steal into my office she pulls Aunt Sarah's magnifying glass out of my desk drawer, holds it up to her eye and says, "I spy with my little eye." Someday I want to write a book about it but for now I am going to blog about what Adisyn spy's with her little blue eye. At least it will be printed in the book at the end of the year!

I spy with my little blue eye . . . Shelly Jo saying go away, I'm not ready!
I spy with my little blue eye . . . Marley wearing Grammy's glasses.
I spy with my little blue eye . . . Livi trying to act like Adisyn.
Oh, I spy with my little blue eye . . . the angel watching over the beautiful daffodils that Jaxon and Mya planted in Grandpa and Grammy's back yard when they lived in Utah.

WOW what is this? I spy with my little blue eye. . . the chocolate bunny outside and the white Honey bunny! What is up with that?
I spy with my little blue eye . . . that wild chocolate bunny got into Grammy's Spring photo blocks. He's going to get in trouble. Twelve years ago, when Breana was 4, she was in Albuquerque for Uncle Loren's baptism. He did something that made her mad and she said, "You Chocolate Bunny!" A few years later, he mailed each of us a velvety smooth stuffed chocolate bunny. All these years later it still smells like chocolate!

I Spy with Marley's Brown Eye

Marley wanted to do an I spy with my little brown eye. So here we go a blogging!






Marley said,
I spy with my little brown eye. . . Adisyn taking fresh cut daffodils to Grandma Honey.







Marley said, I spy with my little brown eye . . . baby Ayden at 13 months, trying to put on his own shoes. Smart baby!



Marley said, I spy with my little brown eye . . . a brand new silver tooth in my own mouth!


Marley said, I spy with my little brown eye. . . a black super hero? Nope, it's Derek all decked out in his safety equipment riding his go cart.

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