Happy Easter to you!

 We pulled it off!  Easter was held upstairs.  And I made about 40 trips up and down those stairs!  

...here is our food table.  

And I never noticed this munchkin hiding in this picture,

 until just now as I was looking at the pictures I took!  She is so cute, and ornery!

Hanging out waiting for everyone to show up.

 Oh man....Dave made everyone hold hands for grace.

 Time to eat.

 Two of my nieces.  Look how old they are getting!  (I can't stand it)

 After eating, we relaxed for a few minutes, then we had the egg hunt.

 (Joey)

 (Theresa, Dylan)

 (Andrew, Ty, Adrienne, Theresa)

We did some relaxing on the porch while opening eggs.

 (Joey, Ty)

 (Sarah, Dylan)

Dixie decided Bob was ok. 

Bob belongs to Andrew

Cheers to everyone having a Happy Easter!

When everyone left, I grabbed some crocheting, a blankey, and some water out of my new glass my sister got me and just relaxed....aaahhhhhh.

 

Cindy Bee

Happy Easter!

This is our unfinished room UPSTAIRS!  Those tables along the wall on the right is where our food and drinks will go, and the tables in the center will be where we all eat.  

We are not finished upstairs but we're having Easter up there anyway and it will work and it will be fine!  The main thing is we will all be together, except for one of us who opted to go to Florida with her friends. 

But she came over the other night and helped stuff eggs with Mom.

 

I've been busy planting spring flowers in the Easter pots (that I can find!)

And I drug out an old Easter decoration from years gone by.  Actually, it's just the eggs.  My second cousin, Ashley, used to spend the night on Easter weekend and we would do all kinds of "Martha" stuff.  One thing we did was blow all of the yolks out of these eggs, clean them, dye them, polyurethane them, and run ribbon through them. 
There are other eggs on the tree that are Styrofoam and felted with wool.  I learned that technique at the Winter Woolen Workshop one of the first years I went.  The branches are forsythia branches that I cut off of one of our bushes.  I hope they will be blooming by Easter.  If you bring them in the warm house, and put them in water about a week or more ahead of time, it usually forces them to bloom.

I buy tablecloths at every garage sale that has them.  I love them.  And I use them a lot! Otherwise my tables would be ugly!

The forsythia is not quite budded out, but close!  Maybe by tomorrow.

(note to self...put a big bow around this guy's neck.  I'm going to stain him with an antique look.)

So...guess what Shug is doing?

 Installing doors.

He installed a toilet for Easter!  He'll have to take it back out afterwards, for tile floor and walls and such, but at least we don't have to run downstairs every time we need to go.......

I hope you all have a 

HAPPY

EASTER!

Remember to enjoy the little things

(like toilets, doors, and running water)

and each other!

Cindy Bee

We picked it for you Beth!

 Hi everyone.  Yes,  I'm still here. 

 Last week, as you know, was

thee week from hell.  

I still can't believe Beth is gone.

You know how it is for awhile.... 

You go through the motions of every day life, wondering how life can actually still go on as normal.

We don't know yet what is going to happen to our Granny Bee group.

I don't know exactly what happened to Beth...how she died.

For the last two or three months I spent First Friday in her studio.

In February (I think it was Feb) we were the only two there.  I'm so glad I went.  

Tomorrow is first Friday, Good Friday, and the beginning of Easter Weekend.

And I am having Easter.  I'll be showing you decorations and such, hopefully tomorrow.

Here's a good story I think you'll enjoy....

Debbie, K, and I went to the viewing, along with about 800 other people.

Afterwards, none of us wanted to go home.  So we went to eat.  And as we were taking "K" home, I spied a door!  A wooden door at the curb (trash), sandwiched between two other doors.  I asked, "did you two see that door in the trash?  I think it's wood.  I want it!"

K very nonchalantly said, "tuuuuurn aroouuund."

I said, "should I?"

K said, "Beth would."

 I turned around, it took all three of us to lift it and in Beth's honor, I brought it home.

It was Debbie's first trash pick!

 I have to tell you it was the most beautiful funeral I've attended.  

More flowers than I've ever seen.  

Her son spoke.  

He talked about how she would alley pick! 
So Beth....this door is for you! 

And I want to thank Mom for the flowers.

 

Teresa for the shells (yes she found non-Florida shells here in town!)

Debbie for the chocolate mouse tracks ice cream and for coming over when I had a total melt-down.

And Christy for the sympathy card.

My Sister invited me to a movie (I couldn't go).

I have a lot of nice people in my life that care about me.  It feels good.

And thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers.  

Now, My Shug did get to keep his afternoons job and

I think I found a time to blog again.  We'll see.  Fingers crossed.

Cindy Bee