Resurrection Sunday

We did the egg thing Easter afternoon.

I personally don't like doing this on Resurrection Sunday.

I prefer to keep them separate.

This is what happens when you forget to do it on Saturday!

We tried dying the eggs using kool-aid.

Not only did it work fairly well, it smelled great too! 

Cherry worked well.

As did the pink lemonade.

Mixed berry was the brightest.

Orange turned out good too.

We weren't that impressed with grape and lemonade didn't work at all.  

The polka-dot egg would have turned out better if I had patience.

I didn't want to wait for it to dry.

Then we hid them in the yard.

The one in the peach tree proved to be very hard to find.

And on a sad note, our tree didn't survive the winter.

So sad... no peaches this year.  :(

The second time we hid eggs, we hid the cartons too.

They had to find them first before gathering eggs.

For some reason this carton was hard to find.

Someone even joked that it was hid behind the cat!
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Overall it was a great day which began with worship of our risen Savior
and ended with roasting marshmallows around a fire.

The Great Outdoors

It's hard to believe that five days before the pictures in this post were taken,

we had over 2 inches of this nasty white stuff.

This past weekend was gorgeous and we spent most of it outside.

We spent Friday and Saturday removing a fence along the north side of our lane.

Casey didn't help with the fence but she's good at sitting still for pictures.

The chicken whisperer.

I told him you're not supposed to hug your chicken.

We went for a walk along this ditch that runs behind our house.

These calves were running to catch up with us... that is until they were yelled at...

by the cows, not us.

Dwayne and I walked along the fence row (pictured above) while the boys walked along another ditch.

We ended our walk where almost all of our walks do.

At the neighbors... Dwayne's parents.

Connor self-portrait.

Connor begged and begged for my camera...

He took this picture too.

Not bad.

The tree in the middle has been there a really long time.

Dwayne's grandpa remembered that tree when he was younger.

Unfortunately the tree has been slowly dying.

It's vertical days are numbered.

The boys having some wrestling time with dad.

By the Fireside

A beautiful sunset.

We inaugurated our fire ring last night.

It sprinkled some but that didn't stop us.

Nothing like the orange glow of a fire.

We could hear the spring peepers in the distance.

It was quite relaxing.