Our Easter

We woke up to a light rain on Easter morning.  Great for my garden.  Not so great for all the children in their new Spring Easter clothes.  Sleeveless dresses ,Bermuda Shorts and Sandals....were all ditched for jeans and sweatshirts.  It didn't put a damper on our plans though.  The sun did break through, but the day remained chilly.  Our celebration didn't begin until later in the afternoon, and when they arrived, it was go, go, go!
The kids looked through their Easter Baskets.

Noah was pointing to the one he thought was his.  Hannah had seen these quilted fabric baskets a couple of weeks ago at The Farmers Market when we were visiting the doll lady's booth.  She was very taken with the pink gingham baskets.  So I ran back and bought the only two she had.  They didn't have a boy basket, so Noah got a bucket.
I love these pictures of Hannah and Claire looking through their baskets.

I think everyone got a kick out of the blow up balloon punching bags.

I don't think the kid's Mommie's appreciated some of the things the Easter Bunny left in the baskets for the kids.  Like.......Slap Hand!  You throw it on any hard surface, and it sticks, and when you pick it up, it has all sorts of icky things stuck to it!!!  They loved it!  Remember Whacky Wall Walkers from cereal boxes?  My kids loved those things.  This was a giant Whacky Wall Walker.

And FLARP.  EVERYONE loved the FLARP!!!

If you don't have FLARP for your grandkids yet, go to WalMart and get some!!
This was what The Easter Bunny brought to the big kids.

The next activity was The Easter Egg Hunt.  The guys went out front to hide the eggs.

 I liked Tyrone Wells...er, I mean Jake's method.  Get a bunch of eggs, put them in your shirt, and go hide them.  That is how I pick fruit in the grove when I just need a few.

And they're off........

 I love that the girls are wearing the little Easter shirts that I made for them.  Gennifer just put a long sleeved tee underneath them since it was so cool.  I made one for Noah too, with a dumptruck on it, but I didn't like the template for the truck at all.  I didn't get the template from the same Etsy shop that I got the girls at, and I was not happy.    I love this picture.  "MINE...NO MINE!!:

Claire was pretty darn good at it this year!

This one was a little hard to find.  A dark pink egg in the same shade bush.

Hannah sweetly helped her little sister.

And she was the one who found "The Golden Egg!"  In our family, there was always one special egg, The Golden Egg. That was the one that was hidden the best, and it contained the grand prize.  My Dad would write out poems, and clues for all the kids to help find The Golden Egg.  It was so much fun for them.  One year, he took an orange and  hollowed it out, placing The Golden Egg inside the hollowed out orange,  he hung it back into one of the orange trees here at our house.  The kids had a heck of a time finding that one!  I think it was my nephew Joe who found it?  This year, Hannah found The Golden Egg! 

Right after the egg hunt we started dinner.  I didn't get any pictures of the dinner after it was prepared.  But this is what we had. We bbq'd a huge salmon.  Seasoned with herbs of dill and thyme from my garden, lemons and onions, salt and pepper, and a little drizzle of olive oil.  And fresh tuna steaks, with S & P and Soyaki.

Gennifer made her fabulous roasted asparagus with sliced tomatoes and feta cheese.  And Erika made a huge delicious salad, loaded with goodies, as per her Dad's request.  I had some sourdough dinner rolls and wild rice that didn't quite get done in time.  The meal was delicious.  Since the weather was so chilly, we ate inside.

After dinner, I got Eri busy making the real whipped cream for our Strawberry Shortcake.

She bailed when she found out it was going to take a while to do the whipping.  Even though we were stuffed, we managed to have just a little.

The kids had baths, and got into their jammies.  We played with the Flarp some more, and then they took the tired little ones home to their own beds after a full day of celebrating. 

Wait...what's this I see????

Why it's Gennifer.....the one who was TOO full to eat her shortcake!  What do you suppose she is doing there with her back turned???

Caught Ya!!!!!   Tee-Hee!  It was awfully good.  I may have used the rubber spatula to get the last little bit when I was cleaning the kitchen myself! 
It was a fun day!!!!