EASTER PEEPS! SNAPSHOTS FROM OUR ANNUAL EGG HUNT

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.  ~James Howell

Easter is one of my favorite traditions. After worship service and lunch somewhere, we take family photos and then we hide eggs, hunt eggs and eat eggs and all manner of candy, and this Easter, God blessed us with an exceptionally beautiful day to be outside and enjoy family.

Daughter Holly and granddaughter Shelby boogie to a tune playing on daughter Kelly’s cell phone.

Ranft/Myers/Kimbrough Family ~ Kelly and Knox, me and Neil, Holly, Elijah, Shelby and Jerry [Kerry couldn’t join us—had to work]

Myers Family


My Grandpeeps! Shelby, Elijah, Knox





Knox already had his socks and shoes off and was on the trampoline when it was time for his family photo. His mom joined him [you know that old saying, If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em ~ works well here]

Kimbrough Family [minus Kerry]





My sister Jane and her daughters Sarah and Julia got to color eggs this year. They’re usually attending Lads To Leaders in Nashville Easter weekend, but the girls have grown up and out of this function. I love it that they are a part of our Easter tradition.


Shelby, Sarah, and Julia have outgrown the egg hunt, but we entice them into it anyway with well-hidden prize eggs [money is involved]. Neil is an exceptional prize egg hider.

Julia on the prowl for her egg ~ she did eventually find it but I’m sad to say I didn’t get a picture. How did that happen?

It took Knox a while to warm up to the hunt, but he finally did get into the spirit.

Still looking…

Grandson Elijah spotted a prize egg but it wasn’t his and he didn’t give the location away to the other hunters.

Sarah found hers tucked under a flower pot

Knox found his in the tulips


Love these ladies! Julia, Jane, Sarah

Shelby found hers, too


Elijah is a good hunter, but it took him a while to find his prize egg.

The ladies having a pow wow….or something


Knox filled up his basket twice


Love to crack into those pretty hard boiled eggs and eat them sprinkled with salt. Looks like Elijah has his hands and mouth full.

If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.  I have no idea who said this [originally] but it is totally true.

Jane and Knox enjoyed some bubble blowing time in the sunshine. It just doesn’t get any better than this. What a fun afternoon!

Happy Easter, everyone!
…7For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.…  Romans 5:7-9

THE GOOD THE RANDOM THE FUN ~ APRIL SO FAR

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
-  William Shakespeare 

Grandson Elijah, granddaughter Shelby, Neil and I hit the DQ Wednesday after school for some yummy frozen treats. Banana splits for Elijah and Neil. Shelby and I tried the Brownie Cookie Dough Blizzard, and we both agreed it was totally awesome.

Elijah brought home his art portfolio, an array of pictures he made in class that imitated the style of various famous (and not so famous) artists, using different mediums. Pretty cool. Good work, Elijah!

Thursday was the day for class Easter egg hunts (or Spring egg hunt, as they call it now). The weather did not cooperate, and a thunderstorm blew in right as Elijah’s third grade class lined up to go outside and walk to a classmate’s home to have their egg hunt. His teacher is quite creative and devised an alternative way to hunt eggs in the classroom. Each student had a numbered egg and “hunted” through each pan, looking for his number. They had twenty seconds to go through each pan. Not the ideal situation but fun nonetheless I guess. They also got to enjoy a delicious lunch of burgers and dogs one of the dads grilled for them [in the rain] and fruit and other goodies and they played games.

Grandson Knox had his Easter egg hunt at his MDO school. His mom took this picture of him in his bunny ears.

This pretty blue egg is one he found during his egg hunt, and he carried it around all afternoon until his hands were blue. Matched his shirt. And Crocs, too.

Cherry blossoms ~ one of my fave things about Spring

Just a swingin’ after school. Granddaughter Shelby, who will be in high school next year [yikes!], gave up class egg hunts when she went off to middle school where holiday-related fun does not exist. Real world strikes again.

"Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment."
-  Ellis Peters

Son in law Kerry got into the candy stash ~ that Laffy Taffy is hard to unwrap

"Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone."
-  Roy R. Gilson

Daughter Holly popped in after work to pick up her kiddos, and Knox was happy to let her push him in the swing.

Trampoline time

Lovely Shelby

Jump!

Friday I dug out the plastic eggs and filled them with candy. Seems all the major holidays revolve around candy. Beginning with Halloween in October and running through Easter~I call it the Fat Season. It’s hard to ignore a piece of chocolate when it’s right there under your nose. And OOPS! now it’s in my belly [and on my hips].

Today we colored Easter eggs.

The first dozen. One didn’t make it.

Knox got a kick out of the process, but I think Kelly had the most fun.


Looking forward to eating these [with a sprinkle of salt, of course] They turned out so pretty, especially Kelly’s multi-colored eggs.

Seemed like a good night for homemade stew and fresh Italian bread for supper [Food Lion has the best bakery bread on the planet~just sayin’]

After supper, egg coloring ~round two ~the second dozen. Knox likes the blue ones best. Good times.  Great traditions. Hope your April has been awesome so far.

“ 'April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.' ” ― Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter

It’s April already! No foolin’!