Tanek checking out his peas he planted

Tanek wanted to plant peas like he and his cousins did last summer. Everytime we go to look at how his peas are growing he wants to know where Emily is. He thinks she should be here to help him with his garden. He actually likes to eat them since they come from papa's garden and he got to help plant them last year. But....they are all gone until this crop comes up.

They are still small but they are coming up and growing. Hopefully they will all do well and if they do we will have plenty of peas and everything else. You can see the corn behind him is doing pretty well. All the rain we have had sure has helped.

My Beautiful Grand-daughters!

Here is Emily on Easter. Isn't she just too cute. I love the curls and big bow in her hair. (I borrowed these pictures from my daughter-in-law.) She is a great photographer.
I love this picture. Someone has a "attitude".

Her is Emily again. Love those rosy cheeks and sweet smile.

Hannah and Emily. All dressed in pink.

And here is all 3 of them when everyone was smiling. They are all so different, yet in many ways so alike. I can tell you it is never dull at their house and you never know what is coming next. Just wait....It will get even better as they get older.

Happy Easter!

Last night we attended the Lake Area Easter Pageant at our church. It was amazing. It is great to see that a church this size in a small town like Keystone has so much talent and can put on such a great pageant. There is so much talent in this church. And Jeannie (our pastor's wife) makes Sandy Patti sound like an amature. This morning we went to church and also had a great Easter service. This afternoon we had the family (minus the Maryland group, "my 3 beautiful grand-daughters") for dinner and Easter egg hunt. Without the girls and Richard and Ricky there was no big egg fight after the hunt. (When Heather blogs their picutures I will borrow a few so you can see my beautiful grand-daughters). But we had a nice dinner and fun time with Ricky, Stephanie and Tanek. We had our traditional Easter dinner....Mexican. They always get the traditional Easter dinner of ham etc. from the other family, so I get to cook something different and we always do Mexican. We all love that and that has become "our" traditional Easter and Christmas dinner. My friend Anita cooks for days before and I told her it takes me an hour and I am through. I really like that part a lot. Tanek enjoyed hunting Easter eggs and we hid them and re-hid them about 5 times. Once he found out there was money in some of the eggs he was really into it. It is amazing how quickly a 3 year old realizes what money is. After the egg hunt we went over to his house so he could play on his slip and slide. He enjoyed that until he was half frozen.
Below is my Easter flag. I really liked it but with all the windy days we had it always got tangled up because of the cut out area's on the flag. I was always having to climb up and untangle it. But I still like the flag.

My Easter wreath on the front door.

Tanek collecting the eggs. He was very good at finding them.

Here is a pretty one

Nana and Tanek

Mommy and Tanek checking out the eggs

A basket full

Counting the money from his eggs

Time out for a drink

This is Tanek's slip & slide. He had to wash his hands off everytime he got some dirt on them. He doesn't like his hands dirty.

Wheee! A great Easter Day!

Tanek is spending the night with us tonight and he is sound asleep in bed. He was pretty tired after a very fun day.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Today Stephanie and I helped Tanek color Easter eggs. We took off most of his clothes so he wouldn't get the dye all over him. I still have multi colored fingers. He was quite anxious to color the eggs this year.

We used the tye dye egg coloring kit and then used the sparkle kit on top of those. I think they really turned out quite pretty. The dye doesn't wash off your fingers though.

Here is the finished project. I think they are beautiful and hate to eat them. Tanek was anxious to eat one, but after it was peeled he decided it wasn't that appealing.

I hope everyone has the fun of coloring eggs this year. It really is fun with a 3 year old. :)

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter. I hope you all will remember the real reason we celebrate Easter.

Fun Day!

Today Meme Anita and Morgan came over and spent the day. They brought Tanek some Easter gifts and Morgan and Tanek had a great time. We all did.
Tanek is checking out all the goodies in the bag.

So Many goodies what fun.

I love you Meme, thanks for all the gifts.

After we spent the morning visiting we took some food to the church for the Easter rehersal and then we went to McDonalds for lunch. Morgan and Tanek had a lot of fun playing in the playyard. Tanek thought he was as big as Morgan and did everything she did.

Morgan is such a precious girl. Next to "our" 3 grand-daughters Morgan is my favorite little girl in all the world. She just turned 9 and is only a few days younger than our Hannah. She is a great dancer and just a joy to be around. She is so good with Tanek and he loves her to pieces.

He really didn't want her and meme to go home.

It was such a beautiful spring day and just a perfect day for an outing.

Here is Morgan coming down the slide. Isn't she so pretty?

Tanek is getting ready to climb up the ladder.

Tanek wanted meme to come down the slide and being the good sport she is she climbed up the ladder and down the slide.

Tanek and Morgan on the sit and spin. They are standing and spinning. Thanks Morgan and Meme for a great day. Tanek had the time of his life. Can't wait til summer when we can do this more often.

Happy Birthday Tina!

Last night we celebrated Tina's birthday. We had dinner and Doris made the wonderful dessert and of course we played our famous game of Phase 10. The birthday lady won the game. Here you see Don just having taken a bite of cake with Doris getting ready too. Nice thing about having the camera, you don't have to be in the pictures.
Tina opening her birthday gifts.

A nice candle to use while she is in her hot tub

A Happy Birthday smile from Tina. We had a great time as we always do when we manage to get together.

Another sign of Spring!

I love to watch birds. This time of year they are everywhere. We have 5 baby bluebirds in our bluebird house out back. It is fun to watch the mom & dad bird going back and forth all day long feeding the hungry little babies. Then when they are about 2 weeks old they leave their house and fly away. They do come back occasionally for a visit to their homestead. Right now we have a yard full of finches. They are everywhere and litterally empty out their seed bags in one day. I don't know how many bags of thistle I have bought this year to feed these little guys. They are now turning bright yellow which means they will soon fly north. I hate to see them leave, but they are pretty pricey to feed.

You can see how yellow they are getting. There are usually a lot more birds on these bags, but these are the ones that were brave enough to hang on when I got near to take their picture.