"Grandma, what happened to your eye?"

Sorry to gross everyone out, but Friday night I was in a dressing room and had something in my eye. I THOUGHT it was an eyelash. I kept trying to get it out but wasn't being successful, so out of irritation I looked in the mirror to see if I could figure out what it was, and this is what my eye looked like. I was a little alarmed at first, because it almost looked like there was a "flap" in my eye, but I could see fine and I could no longer feel the whatever it was that was in my eye - so hopefully, other than looking scarey, I'm fine :). It actually seemed a little better today, if you can believe that.
Now, on to Easter. I apologize for posting so many pictures, but I just couldn't decide :)

Seeing Gracie eat the robin eggs and not know of the cool trick of using it as lipstick, was more than I could handle. So I took the opportunity to share my knowledge with her, and this is our finished product. Aren't we beautiful?

The weather was supposed to be very rainy but we lucked out and had beautiful weather!

Not to be outdone

Tyson and Nellie enjoyed a little Easter catch

And the dogs had a good time too

Grandpa and his homemade "kids rack" - it's a 3 seater you know. Notice Summer's death grip on Grandpa's shirt :)

After the 2nd session on General Conference, and before dinner, we had our Easter egg hunt

Our 2 youngest hunters

Gracie the serious hunt-ress

Abby

Braden counting his find; they get to hunt for 12 eggs . . . and if they can find a gold egg that's a BONUS!

All this activity made Daisy a little tired

The first (of 3) golden egg(s) was discovered!!

Our own "Easter Podium" with the 3 GOLD egg finders

Paige was "twirling" for me. If you don't know what that is, you need to watch "You've Got Mail"

Oh the life of a busy Mom

. . . and a little sugar for Uncle Chad

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Billy The Kid (and Kaisa) on Spring Break, and the March Birthday Party

Kaisa had spring break off from her nursing school last week, so they came over and spent some time with us. We had a lot of fun. While they were here Billy bought some "skates", so here he is trying them out and helping me get some "action shots" :)

Then while we had everyone here, we decided to have our March birthday party (AND get some new family pictures - next post) for Me, Ryan, Emilee, Scott and Tanner.

We had pizza, caesar salad and bread sticks for dinner and then each of the March birthday people's "significant others" made a birthday cake/dessert to share (along with homemade ice cream of course). Here's a picture of the goods!

. . . Happy birthday to you . . . .

Making a wish (notice Tanner's birthday train cupcakes on the lower left)

The ceremonial cutting and serving of the desserts

We gave Tanner this outfit for his birthday. I was worried he wouldn't be too excited about it, but was delighted with his response. He understood it was "soccer clothes", put them on right away, and seemed very pleased with how he looked.

Then Nellie and I went to Selah for Drill Team State Competition (Jen was judging) and stayed with Kaisa and Billy for a couple of nights. Lucy was so excited that we were coming that she got all dressed up! I guess that would make "her" a dog cross dresser? ")

A Belated Happy Birthday Dinner for Emilee

Here's Emilee's "Princess/Queen" cake as she IS, and always will be, a Princess to us :) . This crown would have worked much better around a regular layer cake like it was supposed to be, but Emilee wanted a cheesecake so I tried putting the crown around that and since it was a softer one . . . it didn't work very well.
I forgot to grab the camera until after Em was done with her breakfast/birthday dinner :(. We had french toast (w/strawberries and whipped cream), omelets, fruit and a little OJ/chocolate milk to drink!

Paul LOVED his whipped cream!!

Grandpa making a silly face (imitating a mouse caught in a trap) and Paige thinking he's THE most hilarious thing in the world!

Paige and Emilee with big eyes

Bailee too

(I believe the quote goes something like this:) "train a child up in the way they should go and when they are old/grown they will not depart from it"

We train them young :)

Getting ready to huff and puff

Emilee ALMOST got her wish!

Wearing part of her "crown" - that's my Princess ")

Happy Birthday Em - we love you and are glad you're part of our family.