Spring Cleaning and Easter Preparing

Since I've been home from vacation the weather has been rainy and grey, but one day the sun came out, and so did the deer!

 I spent a lot of time inside last week, doing  Spring cleaning.

  

I had to recruit some help for the ceiling fans and lights!

I've also been preparing for Easter

My parents took a huge bag of eggs home and stuffed them.  I've still got a huge bag to go!

The weather was pretty nice over the weekend so I decided I best take advantage and do some Easter decoration planting for the tables.

 These little 'baskets' are from an egg coloring kit I bought at the dollar store!  Clever huh?  The spider plants are starts (babies), from a plant that my cousin, Gloria, gave me starts from a couple of years ago.   And her plant was in our Grandpa's room when he was alive...20something years ago.

 I also did a bit of evening crochet on this blanket, but I'll talk about that in another post.

 I decided since it was warm and sunny yesterday I would get into some beehives.  Good thing I did.  This one was building comb in extra space from an empty candy board.

This is the empty candy board, which is what gave them some extra space.  I've removed it and added a hive body and super, which is much better for the hive.  So far, I have six live hives out of eight.  WAY BETTER than last year.  I'll have to split some hives to give them room to grow this year.  Which means I'll have more hives/more bees! 

More back aches!!!

Speaking of aches. I'm going to go take a nap and an ibuprofen.  I have a toothache.  Unfortunately, its' that back tooth area.  I tried to wear a night guard last night.  I think I take back everything I said about wearing night guards.  It's not working for me.  I seem to clench more with it in my mouth.  I don't know what to do.  How does one stop the clenching?  I really don't live a stressful life.

Cindy

Easter part two!

 Easter dinner almost finished....

 After everyone finished eating, we decided to hunt before dessert.

My Shug handed out bags....and off they went! 

In these pictures check out the almost two year old, Ty!  He is always off by himself!

 

So funny!  His Dad says this kid has a mind of his own!

 I'm so very glad we had such beautiful weather for Easter!

  Everyone going through is loot!

 Taylor and Emily

 Trent (front left), Theresa,  Duke and Mom (standing)

 Billie, Gloria, Mom, Vinh, and Ralph

 Andrew and Dad must be having a serious conversation about Mardi Gras' necklaces!

 Look how cute...the guys got matching necklaces, in their eggs, that matched their shirts!

 My Shug in the green, Chee in the lavender, and Vinh (the little boy I used the babysit!) in the yellow!

 My niece Adrienne with her children Ty and Dylan

 Time for dessert!

 And for playing outside.  The older girls decided to play with the two year olds airplane and the first thing they did was get it stuck on the roof!

 After much thinking, and after me telling them they could not climb on the trellis....

 and after Vinh offering to help but then found out he had sat in chocolate and was too embarrassed to help......

 

 

they climbed the trellis anyway!

Dylan got almost to the top and chickened out!

 Even with Mom and Dad both there to catch her, no way!

 And the whole thing blew down except for the wing.

 So Taylor climbed up there and got it.  Now here's the thing.......

 I'm pretty sure if they ever spend the night...they are not going to stay in the room that they claimed was "their room."  The one with the balcony.  Because I'm visualizing teenage escape artists in the making here!

 My cousin Gloria and her husband Ralph came this year.  And Ralph was sitting on this swing.  I thought it was a sweet moment, even though he didn't remember the swing, so maybe it wasn't his parents....but I bought it at a garage sale that was held at his parents house years ago.

 My precious nieces and nephew....minus one nephew...

 here he is busy going through his eggs.


The guys went fishing.

 Then later played bocce' ball.

 And most importantly.... We all had a fun and a wonderful day.

Cindy Bee