Grandma Amy’s Birthday Party

 

“My dream is to some day sit on the porch covered in grand-children yelling No! and Stop that!” Steel Magnolias.

Dear Amy Hall our next door neighbor and good friend had a birthday party.  She invited her kids and grand-kids and luckily for us – us and our kids.  Clint had to write a paper but the kids and I went and we had a fabulous time. 

 

Amy and her dog Monet

 

Maria watches Cole with his trains.

Hunter shows off his muscles! 

Caelun joins Cole with his trains- Cole was so good at sharing.

        

Cait, Abbi, Emily, Kyle, Corey,and Renee play with the Wii.

Hunter checks on the little kids.

   

Caelun shows me a train.

            

Carrie Chats with Jerry and Amy

 

Caelun finds a cool wooden car.

Meagan, Kris, and Carrie hang out.

The big kids go upstairs- Abbi and Emily chill.

Cait and Renee chill with them.

Hunter shows Caelun the wii.

  

 

Amy says “Jerry this is quite the party!”

Egg Hunt 2008

Six days late but with much better weather, mid-forties and sunny, we held our annual egg hunt at the farm. We had ten kids hunting this year- the most we have had in the ten plus years we have been doing this. Abbi didn't hunt. Alas she is to old, or so she says, but when you quit hunting you have to start hiding and she did a great job with that. In general it was great chaos and fun, and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I know I sure did. There are an inordinate amount of pictures of my kids, but it's my blog so I guess that is how it works. I should probably briefly explain our version of an egg hunt. All of the eggs have a number written on them. Each child is assigned a number and can only pick up the eggs with their number. This way eggs can be filled according to the corresponding child- boys don't get hair ribbons, and the hiding difficulty level can be adjusted according to each child's capability. Thus Clint took great relish in hiding almost fourteen year old Levi's eggs so he had to both climb and dig for his eggs. We did fifty-five eggs for each of the bigger kids. Two of the little ones got twenty-five, and thirty-five and Caelun got ten. My dad cooked his amazing spread- chili, potatoe salad, bean salad, sloppy joes, ham, tossed salad, chips, cookies ect... Dawn was integral prep cook, egg stuffer and hider. Needless to say we all slept well that night. Dawn loads up the wagon with the eggs to be hid

Abbi starts the hiding
She is a creative hider
Clint tries to come up with hard places for Levi
Dawn takes some of the mid range difficulty
Clint hides Levi's eggs- I wonder who will have more fun?

Abbi is a great egg hider
She tries to figure out how tall Cait and Emily are
Surely they will see it here

The eggs are hid and the hunt is about to began

Everyone lines up for Grandpa Bob to ring the bell to start the hunt

Levi shows off his bunny egg
Billy found an egg
Blake puts an egg in his bag while mom Debbie watches
Hunter finds an egg in the old willow tree

Abbi picks up an egg that was left behind and checks the number

Cait sees an egg in the tree. I wonder whose egg that could be?
Levi's of course, up he scrambles while Cait watches
I wonder who had to climb to put it up there?
Clint and Caelun look for eggs
Cait is having fun

Look at my eggs!
Emily has a bag full
Billy also has a bag full
Carrie helps Hunter and Bryar

Kris and Megan "egg" the hunters on while Cait brings up the rear

Bryar looks while the eggs elude him

Blake sneaks up on one

Megan- I found one!- says Cole

See- my egg!

Cole says look what I have!
Abbi says I will help you

Really?
You can find an egg
Abbi you are so cool!

I will hunt eggs too!
Almost...
Got It!
on to the next egg...

Mine!

Pretty eggs
so many eggs
Abbi you were right- I did it!
Hmm- they still don't taste very good
Did you say it was the giant rabbit again?

Bryar has lots of eggs

Dawn organizes empty eggs in the back
Cole has a balloon
Look at all of Hunter's eggs
Clint feeds Caelun while Levi and Bryar think

they would like something a bit more substantial
like hot dogs
I don't think they were thinking of their thumb

Emily shows off her eggs
Emily sorts her goodies
Kris and Megan enjoy Grandpa Bob's cooking
Caelun checks out his goodies
Blake enjoys his lunch and his baloon
while Cae sneeks up on him