My Favorite Easter Peeps

As you can tell, the Easter pictures were mostly about the grand babies...but I did get a few of my favorite Easter Peeps too.
Kelli with Brooke and Maddux. She really is a very nurturing mom.

Derrick, Davin and Meagan...this was the best picture out of several taken. The sun was just so bright!

Kelli and Will. I can't believe how tall he is getting! What has happened to my baby boy?

The three Goode girls...princesses all! Kelli, Meagan and Brianne. We tried to tell them as they were growing up that they would become the best of friends one day. That day is here. They talk to each other more than they talk to me and Jim these days.

And this is the only picture we got of Brian all day...other than overall shots from the egg hunt. He had been in San Marcos for the weekend visiting a friend and had just arrived back home around 1:30 on Sunday. I think he was too tired from his late night playing video games at the EMS station to join in much of the action.

It was great having all five of them at home at once. After the egg hunt, the guys finished watching the Shell Houston Open on television and then we pulled out the board games. Cranium beat out Monopoly, Taboo and Outburst. The teams were: Meagan & Derrick; Brian & Will; Kelli & Bri; and finally, me and Jim. The parents pulled out the win...though Kelli and Bri were hot on our tails.

All in all, me and my Peeps had a pretty good day!

Egg Hunt 2010

After a full meal of fresh hog ham (thanks to Pappaw's turkey hunt) with all the trimmings, it was time to hunt Easter eggs!

I have always loved the egg hunt. I remember hunting Easter eggs at my Grandma Fulton's house every year. The whole neighborhood plus some would usually participate. Grandma had plenty of flowers for great hiding places too!

When my kids were little, my mother carried on the tradition. We would have lots of people over for lunch and the egg hunt. After the official hunt, prizes would be awarded and the adults would return inside for a time of fellowship while the kids hid and re-hid the eggs a dozen times! But then they grew up and didn't really enjoy it so much anymore. Poor Will got the shortest time for egg hunting fun since everyone else was so much older than him. It wasn't as much fun for him to hunt eggs alone.

However, with the new little ones in the family...the egg hunt is exciting once more!

Here we go...time to look for eggs!
Brooke found the first one. (And yes, that blue dye was still on her hands when she left! It sure was pretty though.)

Davin ended up with the most eggs of the day, having found the Queen's Nest which held half a dozen.

Maddux hunted eggs for a little while, but quickly decided it was more fun to ride on Pappaw's shoulders and let Uncle Will do the egg hunting for him.

Looks like he made out pretty well from his perch!

Eggs, eggs, everywhere you looked there were more eggs!

It didn't take this little princess long at all to open up a package of Starbursts!

Davin was just ready to get on the Polaris! (I wish y'all could hear him say it. So cute!)

It will be a couple more years before we can hide the eggs in the deep grass and secret places...but it was still a lot of fun!

Easter Sunday 2010

Yesterday the whole family (except Matt, who had to work) gathered for lunch, an egg hunt and a feisty game of Cranium. I am going to take a few days to post the pictures so as not to bore you. Ha!

Of course, these first pictures are far from boring...my three sweet grand babies, all dressed up in their Easter clothes!

I think I have mentioned before how hard it is to get a picture of all three of them together. These were the best of the day.

Davin


Brooke

Maddux

Hope y'all enjoyed your Easter Sunday too!