Doesn't Charlotte look thrilled? My cute Easter girls!
As a Child, Easter is the only holiday I remember looking forward to being with family. The grandparents I lived near during my childhood didn't enjoy little kids so for Christmas, Thanksgiving etc we were always sent to a back bedroom to play. Easter on the other hand was different. My Grandpa Tom, stern then, would go out to his barn and hide piles of jelly beans for us to find. I remember being so excited for the hunt. Jumping around his hay piles... sometimes finding more then you expected when you'd come across a rogue chicken's nest. It never occured to me to be grossed out that he'd set the jelly beans directly onto the feed bins where cows mouths chomped up their feed. He always said it was his favorite holiday too since the rest of the year he would come across un-found jelly beans while doing his chores.
My parents have taken on the challenge of the barn hunt. Treats enclosed in plastic eggs, thank you!
Hunters: Adrianne, Stella, Faith, Caleb & Joy.
We celebrated Adrianne's 6th Birthday on Saturday. She wanted a pancake party so her cake was 6 chocolate chip pancakes coated in whipped cream. Six 6 year old's (and Stella) shrieked around our house for 2 hours. Thank goodness for the girl club. We sent them out there so the volume in the house would be at a tolerable level! Six is very silly indeed.
The child within me is so jealous of the "Girl Club" that is being built in our yard. We had some left over construction materials from our house and have been saving them just for this: A playhouse that the girls can live in (and by live I mean play in from sunrise to sunset). This is our birthday present to them (we are already way over budget) and with some interior contributions from the Grandma's, it should be an awesome little house. We should finish it in the next week. More pictures to come!
Doesn't Charlotte look thrilled? My cute Easter girls!
