Family Easter Celebration

As usual, we held our family Easter celebration the Saturday before Palm Sunday. We usually have it in the morning (I don't want the candy in the Easter Egg Hunt to melt) but this year we had it in the afternoon. Thankfully the weather wasn't too warm, in the mid 80s - just perfect!

All of the kids but Snow participated in the Easter Egg Hunt. She'll be right in there with them next year I'm sure! They did all get an Easter Basket.

The three older kids have been asking for umbrellas so I bought them this year. I was just going to stick them in their baskets, but Katie sent me a photo using the umbrellas as the baskets. It was so cute I tried it and it turned out great! They were so thrilled to get their own umbrellas and can't wait for it to rain. I haven't had the heart to tell them that they'll probably have to wait until July.

Since we were celebrating in the afternoon we served dessert and appetizers. It was so much easier than providing a full meal. Maybe we'll stick with afternoons from now on...

Skye and Sunny

Showing off their haul

Storm really got into cracking the eggs open

They love the umbrellas

Dan being a good sport while Zach decorates him

Snow's first Easter Basket - I don't think she's impressed

Gigi and Papa with all of their great-grands

Look Who's Five!

Skye celebrated her 5th birthday earlier this month! We had a great time playing games, eating pizza, and opening gifts at Peter Piper Pizza. All of the cousins were there so of course, Dan and I took advantage of the situation to get a photo with all of them.

Skye is so excited to be five, and even more excited to be starting Kindergarten in the Fall.

She's a sweetie!

We love you, Skye!

Meeting Snow

What a pile of gifts!

Sweet five year old

This was her reaction to $5 in her card! 

Sunny, Thunder, Skye

Thunder

Gramps, Grammy

Storm, Sunny, Skye

Snow

Aren't grandchildren just the best?!

Official Photo - One Month

Oh my gosh, where did the month go? We took Snow's Official One Month Photo at our family Easter celebration. She was not impressed!

Verse for the Week: Matthew 28:6

Happy Easter!

Verse for the Week: Psalm 62:1-2

Verse for the Week: Ephesians 4:2

Verse for the Week: Galatians 6:2

A Stitching Post

Yes, I've been stitching this year. I have an ambitious to-do list for 2016. It's mostly large projects: Christmas stockings, baby samplers, and of course, my ever present WIPs.

This is my second finish for the year. Several months back my friend Barb in Washington state sent me a huge box of kits. For free! Her only request was that I stitch a kit titled "Whidby Island" for her. Of course I was honored that she would ask me to stitch for her and got started on it early in January.

I am notorious for under estimating how long it will take me to stitch a project. This was no exception. I thought it would take me 30 days, but it took me 42 days.

She is going to have it professionally framed so I didn't complete it in any way. Just sent it off in the mail. I hope she likes it. I think it's a very pretty design. The flags at the top and bottom of the border spell "Whidby Island". The flags on the sides spell "Washington".

The first project I finished this year was a Christmas stocking for my nephew, Matt. I need to assemble it and then will take a photo to share. I'm currently working on a stocking for his wife, Shelby. Stockings generally take quite a while. I gravitate to designs with lots of detail. 

So there you have it! My first stitching post of 2016. Hopefully the first of many...