Family Easter....postponed

....until next weekend! Chad and Keri are coming home and bringing Keri's daughter, Bella, for her first visit.

We are very excited and I asked the grandchildren if they would mind having our Easter fun a week late. They were very supportive and excited to include Bella this year!

We are planning an Easter basket hunt and Egg hunt. I'm praying for good outside weather!

Easter church service was wonderful....a blessed way to begin the day! Mike and I came home and ate a nice lunch together and watched some basketball and golf. We headed to Coshocton around 4 to see what treats the Easter Bunny brought to the grandchildren this year! Madison loved her rock painting set and Grace was excited about her fingernail polishing kit. Andrew got some nice shorts and favorite candy. Matt and Val decided to do a family gift of "Rock Band." The band version of Guitar Hero. (2 guitars, drums and karaoke) I know they say it was for the kids, but it seems to me the adults in the area are more excited than the kids! It's fun!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! I'm ready for some spring weather that doesn't include rain or snow....just lots of sunshine!

Easter Egg Hunt, Dr. Seuss Silly Hat Day..

My daycare gang had their Easter Egg hunt last Monday. The sun was shining but it was cold!
Thank you to my parents for letting us "hunt" in their backyard! Ours is very muddy and full of fallen pine cones!
Our littlest one...my great niece, Nevaeh, was the sweetest hunter. She would pick up an egg and look at it then place it slowly into her bucket. The big kids were all about volume!
Tired hunters posing on the front porch steps with me and Grandma Great!
Thanks to Grandpa Mike for doing all the egg hiding this year! I removed my boot cast but I'm not walking very fast or smooth yet!






During our Week of Rhyme we celebrated Dr. Seuss and this was Silly/Favorite Hat Day! The kids loved the flowers growing out of my hat! What a fun day!

Now this is a snowstorm

We've been hearing it all winter....snow warnings! It comes in the night...2-4 inches....school is cancelled...then it warms up, rain comes in and we have slush! There hasn't been a good snow for the kids to play in for any amount of time.

This weekend...now that everyone is ready for SPRINGTIME...we got ourselves some snow!! And it was on a weekend. Hope everyone had a great time! Mike and I missed having children around for the snow tracking, snow forts, snowmen, snow angels, snow ball fights and hot chocolate!

We have wonderful memories with Chad and Valerie in the snow! I couldn't do too much with the broken leg but Mike went out and took a few solo walks around town. We watched the remaining Lonesome Dove series, ate great food and remembered past snowy days with the kids.

It was wonderful....


Here are a few pictures Saturday and Sunday.....


It seems like an endless chore...
This was the beginning of the storm
Our backyard was pretty but seemed a bit sad without snowmen, forts and snow angels!

Mike's new fence sections waiting on Spring...
The neighbors kept Pearl's sidewalks clear so she could get out....We can't wait to see her on the porch this summer!

Temporarily Out of Order...

I'm still here! First couple of weeks on the crutches I was just grouchy and grumpy (with a smile on my face) and now I'm annoyed by the cast and I just haven't felt like blogging. I don't think you really want to hear about me hopping to the kitchen for a drink or my graceful attempts to get into and out of our deep soaking tub!!! My days have been filled with elevating and icing!

I'm grateful to my mom for helping me with the children but I can't tell you how hard it was for me to give up control. I tried to stay in the loop for a day but quickly realized I couldn't do it. So I became a supervisor.

Doctor appointment last Friday. I get to walk on the cast. That lifted my spirits until I realized that I might have been faster on the crutches!! Whoa is me!!! Will this never end!!

Mike and I decided to do a "Lonesome Dove" marathon on Saturday and we watched 8-9 hours of this wonderful western saga! We would stop it for bathroom and food breaks! We are really wild party animals in our old age!

I did get a bit pumped up for a trip to Wal Mart on Sunday (Hey...I've been pretty much stuck at home for 2 weeks...Wal Mart sounded like the party of the year!). I had to cut my list short because my leg was hurting a bit and my other knee was hurting and I refused to use a wheelchair or those electric scooter things they have!!

It hasn't all been bad.....I've received some beautiful flowers, wonderful meals, lots of cards (that Mike always opens before me...he's such a kid!) I got to see what it was like to sit around all day doing nothing....(it's not as great as I thought it would be!) I got to spend the night with the kids while their mom was out murdering someone last Friday....(go to her blog for details of the Murder Mystery Reunion Party) **she had nothing to do with the REAL murder that happened on Saturday in Coshocton!!! Mike took me to Bob Evans for breakfast Sunday morning after church then I watched Madison's Elite Dance Dress Rehearsal....(it was awesome). I've been able to move around much better this week and did more with the children (almost putting my mom out of work...but not quite).

It's been a L O N G 2 1/2 weeks!

I must say....I will be excited to clean my house when I'm up and running again. I might even get excited about scouring the bathroom and polishing the furniture!

Good luck to the Elite Dancers who go to their first competition this weekend.

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers during my unfortunate and regrettable chair accident. May this miserable memory rush into your mind anytime you think about standing on a child's chair to do anything!

Happy March...don't forget to turn your clocks up Saturday night!