Two Weeks that end with a Easter Celebration!

Its been a busy couple of weeks.  I was gone to California with Cathie and Jenn where I went to the flower market in LA, very cool, and the flea market at Pasadena City College, even cooler.

Dad stayed busy doing inventories while I was gone, going to church meetings and attending his Finnish missionary reunion.  To the left is shown those from his group with his mission president's wife second to the right in the front row.  It was the fortieth anniversary of serving in Finland all together.

Dad also got a chance to take his boys to see the Priesthood session of Conference at our old Stake Center in SLC.  He was thrilled because he got all four of his boys to go with him.  Then they went to dinner at LaCocina the place he usually takes his Dad on Thursdays.

This weekend we held our spring festival, the day before Easter ...

I found lots of fun ideas on Pinterest, including the individual nests that I repinned from Trina Moe Seamons.  I really loved the tiny little lights that I found at the flower market in LA too, they sort of made the table look magical.  I did eggs in ham in muffin tins, to the right, and Nell said her Grandma used to make them too, who knew?

....with Davin as acting Easter Bunny.

Here are Eva and Zach all ready for the hunt to begin.

Elias jumps right in, but what is so cool about the eggs?

Scott starts filling his basket!

It was a bit unexpected when Eva was the champ at gathering eggs.  Look how pleased she is.

"Oh yeah, I got eggs, I am THAT cool!"  note Zach watching her ... she was so nice to come and bring him!

Elle really got into the whole egg gathering thing, though she wasn't that big on the eggs that didn't have candy in them (You can tell by shaking them) so she tossed the hard boiled, dyed eggs on the ground and looked for her preferred eggs ... Then ....

... she found something better!  (Compliments of Uncle Sam and his brother Mike.)

"Gotcha!"  Elle was way more comfy with the chicks than Eva, who ran away from them with terror on her face.

Titan was pretty impressed with the little yellow fur balls ... and now for the founders of the fun!

"Ya know, I think the whole chick thing was a success, what do you think Mike?"

Everyone enjoyed the chicks, and later this summer Sam and Emily will have some fresh eggs to share.

Trevor is missing from this pic, because he had to work until 12:00 and came at the very end.  We were glad to have him though, even late and appreciated the effort he made to join us!

And this is my fav pic of the day, love the color combo!!