Easter Baskets

I love holidays. I am a sucker for any reason to celebrate. I will probably soon start putting up decorations for Arbor Day just to have another reason to be joyful. The Easter Bunny and I had a conference and I let him know how much I enjoy the baskets he leaves my kids and darned if he didn’t out do himself again this year. I know a huge rabbit bouncing all over the world giving candy to children should probably be alarming to me but this takes us back to my love of all things holiday so we just roll with it (wink) My kids don’t question it either. ‘A giant furry animal breaks into our house and leaves us goodies? Hmmm…okay’ I guess it isn’t hard to do the impact calculation on that one. I hope you enjoy the tour through the baskets and HOPPY EASTER – well in April is was.

Wow look at those baskets.

Abbi’s on the left and Caelun’s on the right

Abbi found hers first.

Nail polish, converse shoes, books, soy crisps, and Pringles- seems like that giant scored.

She says she is too old to hunt eggs I am glad she isn’t to old for Easter baskets.

All lip gloss must be smelled- I think there is a rule.

Pop corn, socks, new undies, not a bad haul I give the rabbit some credit.

Caelun is up next.

Books, a magnadoodle with ducks on it, cheese crackers, cheese puffs, animal crackers, and rubber ducks. Clearly the rabbit is clairvoyant.

Yeah for the Easter Bunny!

A Tour Of The Trees

One of my cousins, who has fond memories of our family farm, asked me for pictures where we planted the recent pear and paw paw trees so this post is a response along with some other pictures of the property as I wandered around. I took these at the end of April after the egg hunt.

This view is to the south standing behind the old barn. The paw paw trees- if they make it they didn’t look so hot this fall- are down near the edge of the swamp that starts with the tall grass.

This view is facing west from behind the old barn. The pear trees are in a row a good distance apart behind the barn and garage. The old seckel pear is the tall one behind Caelun. You can see the old willow off further to the west in the right hand corner.

Another angle of the pears with the view of the back of the garage.

The paw paw trees are in a clump to the left od the white chair.

The paw paws looking up the hill. I planted them here because they are cold hardy to zone 3 so they should be able to handle the low lying cool and they are supposed to want wetter- swampy conditions.

The old pear is up in the left.

Caelun Gets a Birthday Present From Aunt Dawn

Caelun’s 4th birthday was the week after Easter this past year. Our dear friend Dawn couldn’t make it to the party due to a conflict with Prom at the school where she teaches so she brought his present to the egg hunt. We got so busy that we didn’t have Caelun open it before she left so I told her I would take pictures and post them here. I am a few months late but pictures here they are.

He even looked at the card (mommy smiles)

Hmmm I wonder what it could be with those cars all over the paper?? Hmmm…

A WHOLE box of match box cars!

Yeah for cars! Thanks Aunt Dawn! I ma sure mommy and daddy will love stepping on these in the dark and they will be REALLY fun to chase the cats with. (wink)

Egg Hunt 2011

We have been hosting an egg hunt at the farm for Easter for probably 20 years now. We structure it (yes I said structure because at the end of the day we are a bunch of teachers that put this thing together) so that every kid gets the same quantity of eggs. Each kid is given a # this year 1-10. The eggs are then numbered and they can only pick up the eggs with their numbers. This year I did 70 eggs per kid so 70X10 kids 700 eggs. That is a lot of stickers, candy, small toys, and fuzzy pipe cleaner chicks. T weather was excellent this year, it isn’t always, and the kids had fabulous time- so did the grown ups.

Natasha did the majority of the ferret wrangling that day so I could take pictures and Clint could help run the hunt. Our dear friend
Dawn also came along to help and share in the festivities.

Natasha is ferret wrangling and Dawn is handing out the assigned numbers.

Debbie and Clint also help herd children.

 

Billy, Bryar, Cole, and Blake get ready to hunt.

While Natasha entertains the ferret Emily and Sam join the fray

Matt gets his bag.

The kids start getting corralled towards the bell.

Brien, Jodi, Kris, And Stacey also help coral the kids.

Ken and Jodi’s dog even gets in in the fun.

They line up to help Grandpa Bob pull the rope to ring the bell and start the hunt.

PULL!!!!!

And they are off!

Hmmm if you have to explain and point there might be an issue.

Sam has it down!

Emily and Bill seem to have it figured out as well.

Bryar finding his eggs.

Up the hill they go.

Cole is finding his eggs.

 

Matt and Bill have eggs.

Emmy found one in a tree.

Levi, Megan, and Nathan enjoy the stroll.

Caelun is getting the hang of it with Cole leading the way.

Bryar has another one

Blake hunts on.

A view from the hill looking back north to the house

Ken and Jodi help spy over looked eggs.

Back at the barn it is time to crack them open, check out the loot, and eat some food .Grandpa Bob looks at Caelun’s goodies. Natasha is helping to sort the loot. Matt gives us a big grin.

Bryar and Emily

Cole and Billy

Nikki with Caelun and Debbie helping Blake and Billy

Sam

We filled up the pole barn pretty well. Hooray for another successful egg hunt!