a very relaxing saturday~

the forecast for saturday was to be

rainy...gray...cold

the perfect recipe for a lazy day

we stayed in our jammies all day

we  watched

overboard & scent of a women

ate popcorn & drank cherry limeades

(recipe from pioneer women found here)

and

the hubs made a crockpot of chili

and

i made a pan of cornbread

mmmmmmmmm......yummy

what do you do on yucky days?

~*~

behind as usual~

i'm running behind...

behind in 

blogging,

 gardening, 

knitting,

emails,

laundry,

and the list goes

on

and

on

and

on

throw that together with

a new computer that has an

external hard drive hanging off the side (temporary)

that contains 

the brains of my old computer

(back up your computer people!!!)

old....in computer terms that is

my computer wasn't even three years old

and the processor bit the dust

heaving me into the likes

of not having backed up 

all my pictures, recipes, addresses,...basically my life for the past three years

and the lives of my family

thanks HP!

ok..enough whinning

pictures from easter

(which was also two weeks behind....*lol*)

***warning***

you are about to be bombarded with pictures 

the remainder of this post

contains picture after picture

of our grandkids, kids, nieces & nephews

the littles with their little baskets

our girls with their great aunt

the sandbox the hubs made for all the kidlets

(you can't see in this picture, but it has purple

bubbles painted all over the sides)

ready

set

hunt!

(it appears to me that she moved everyone out of the way to be first)

she does like her sweets

hehehehe

and son....why do you have a bucket on your head?????

could he be any cuter?????

jacob~

my sisters little one

he looks just like her

right down to his little feet!

abby....the oldest of the bigs

guessed 287 for the jar of jelly beans

the correct number

288

yeah abby!

and of course, what easter celebration is complete without

games involving raw eggs?????

father & son

tyler & mari

say

"cheese"

ah ah ah

no using your hands gi gi

ok.....we've run with eggs on spoons now lets

toss them back & forth until someone

has raw egg all over themselves..

so Samantha.....how did it feel? *lol*

our sister in law marianne

made all the girls these cute jars

(she's a crafty one!)

filled with candy

cause

adults need sugar too

we have to keep up with all the 

kidlets

and because she's sweet like that

grandkidlets, nieces & nephews

jade, annie, samantha, kendra, tori, hayden, abby, mitchell, jesse, shelden

the little one in the tutu

is 

addy

and then there was millie

such a sweetie!

swinging like a monkey with mom & dad

the

helman-lagratta 

family

the

deppen-barker

family

the

 "younger" 

barker

family

"best friends are we"

jade & annie 

we had a balloon release in memory of my sister

it was colorful & happy

and just what our family needed

~*~

fun in the mailbox!

who doesn't like to get mail?

especially when it's something that has handwriting on it

that's almost unheard of in this day of email & computers

the hubs came in the door with this little package for me!

i couldn't open it fast enough!

i had forgotten i was one of the lucky winners of

a cute hand knitted can cozy made by

jesse of wee pleasures

stop by & visit her

complete with a hand written note

don't ya just love the little sheep on her note card!

thanks so much jesse!

~*~