Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Weekend 2014



Well, I haven’t posted anything in awhile but I have some photos I want to share from this past weekend so that is my motivation. Spring is here and we are very glad. My best girl, Callie (that’s what I call her) is turning three and had her birthday party on Saturday in Kansas although we did not get to attend. Maverick our oldest grandson suffered a left leg fracture on March 12th not long after our return from New Mexico. We helped out some in Loveland, Colorado during his recovery time. After the family was getting by OK with a new babysitter and after Chris returned from a week on spring break in California, Steve and I visited the Kansas grandchildren for a week. So life has been busy. We also got to meet-up with our youngest daughter in Denver one evening recently and had a delightful dinner with her and the great guy who is her boss. They were in Colorado to attend a seminar.

The first half of my Easter weekend was spent in my hometown of Omaha, Nebraska to attend a baby book shower for my niece who is expecting her first baby next month. I flew in to Omaha and my brother and sister-in-law picked me up and hosted me at their lovely home for the night. On Saturday we attended the shower and then my sister drove me to the airport to catch my flight home. I wanted to get back for Easter as we had planned an egg hunt for Maverick and an Easter dinner with our daughter and son-in-law.

The first batch of photos is from the shower  that was hosted by former neighbors and longtime friends of both my niece and my sister. The idea for the books was because several attendees are in a book club together and books would be easier to transport by car back to Texas. The little miss yet to be born will have a perfect library of great children’s books from the earliest soft touch and board books to toddler counting and naming books to some fine classics of prose and poetry. There was even a great world atlas with the continents and animals from each country for her to peer into one day.

The shower was held at a charming older home and there was a wonderful lunch buffet combined with a lot of laughter and fun. I was so glad I was able to go.










The second half of the Easter weekend was on Easter Day itself attending services at our church on a beautiful and warm (no coats) day. Our daughter, son-in-law and grandson joined us after attending their church in Colorado. We got to see Maverick walking gingerly without his cast (removed three days earlier) and he had an egg hunt for plastic eggs out in the backyard. Note to self do not use chocolate candies in the eggs left out in the full sun for a few hours, even on a still cool day they will turn mushy inside the eggs.

Maverick stayed interested for a little while hunting eggs but then all he wanted to do was play in the sandbox that grandfather had gotten out again from last year. We added some trucks that I bought off of Craig’s list recently and he was a happy camper.



I hope  everyone that reads this had a blessed Resurrection day too.
  
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