Easter-tide

 Well, the Easter egg coloring last weekend turned into ONE egg for Leon and the rest of two dozen eggs for Meri and myself to color.  I failed to get a pic of them.  shoot.

Aggie and Jen were out of town until that evening so they couldn't join in.

Ryan completed a set of minis for a game he wants to get going with some friends.  He loves to paint tiny statues.  I can only imagine playing it is like the game Risk where you put out a ton of little soldier guys but in this case, monsters.  He said that I'll be playing too. :)

That Saturday afternoon, some ladies from church were supposed to come and watch Passion of the Christ with me and one by one, they cancelled for one reason or another.  Oh well.  I decided to work on the yard instead so that the Easter pictures would look halfway decent this year.  It's no fun when the kids are digging through molding leaves to find candy. 

TURNED out that it rained all day on Easter Sunday!  So the Easter egg hunt was in the living room and only Aggie hunted.  

Can't have everyone hunting when they're run into each other just turning around.  And there really aren't TOO many places to hide the eggs.  There were lots of plastic candy filled ones too.

Aggs had a ball.

Meri assisted by pointing them out.

Maddy outdid herself with her holiday cheese ball!  At Thanksgiving, it was a turkey with a pretzel tail, at Christmas, it was a snowman.  Well, get a load of the empty tomb cheese ball!!!

Even an angel made out of a cheese stick and the tomb sealed with a Ritz! 

I can't wait to see what she does for 4th of July.  Fireworks?  I don't know.

But for Mother's Day, I'm totally expecting a cheese ball bust of me.

Monday after work, Aggie "helped" me rake out the dead leaves in the garden and around the rhubarb.  She sat on my lap while I tried to saw out some volunteer trees under the leaves of the day lilies.  I'll have to get back there sometime and finish the job.  Then I ran a couple more loads of yard waste out to the towns lawn waste dump.  While there, I found clumps of hosta plants and more day lily bulbs!  Yay me!!!!  My garden will be built up with cast off plants!!!  for free!!!

Then she and I went on a walk out to Robb's grave.  It was still pretty wet from the Easter rains but it was fairly warm and a beautiful time out. She didn't beg ONCE for the overcrowded playground a block off our path!  I'm hoping she forgot about it for now.  I'll take her there, but I hadn't been out to the cemetery for a while.

Anyway, there was more yard work done this week and I started hauling the cement chunks back to the back yard, making the hill behind the garage a little more palatable and less thistly.  I'll show you when it looks less yucky.  I plan to work on that exclusively tomorrow morning and try to get done in time to go to the 20th anniversary of Pride & Prejudice.  Those Fathom Event Classic movies are the BEST!

Next week is 50th anniversary of Monty Python's Quest of the Holy Grail!  I hope to take Leon but we'll see what the week holds.

Has it been 50 years already??!

Am I feeling old?

yes.

Granted, I didn't see it until I was probably 20 but still.