Sunday, April 29, 2012

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

and
the hubs made a crockpot of chili
and
i made a pan of cornbread

mmmmmmmmm......yummy

what do you do on yucky days?

~*~




Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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

~*~

Monday, April 23, 2012

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


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!

~*~