Easter Pt 2

Easter morning in pictures.

 

Easter Pt 1

Easter weekend was beautiful, and I loved  spending time with my family.  McKenzie and Daniel were able to come down on Thursday evening and spend several nights with us. It was great having them home and we all enjoyed time spent together!

 

 

Easter baskets are a tradition that I grew up with and we have continued it with our children. I remember McKenzie's first Easter.  Her little pink basket held her baby socks and each year since, I have filled it for Easter.The other two girls' baskets held their baby socks too. The boys just have baskets that I bought when they were babies. I love traditions, and I think they make good memories as the kids get older.  I know I cherish the holiday memories that my mom made for me gorwing up.

 

  Years ago we moved Easter baskets to Saturday morning to keep Sunday's focus more on the meaning of Easter.  We've never told them it was from the "Easter bunny", but it is just a fun thing to do.

 

                                         "Big Kids" like candy too! :)

 

And so do "married kids"! :o)

 

 

Myles busy painting an Easter craft.

                                   Annual Easter egg dying.

Mariah skipped egg coloring to ride her horse "Candy".

Malachi was the only one that was really into it this year.

                               Macheus just wants to be FREE!

Macheus didn't care a thing about his new books..... he just went for the chocolate!

 

Early morning sugar coma! :)

 

Home sweet home.....

 

I will post Easter morning pictures next time.

 

~until then....

Where there are boys...

there will be DiRT!

 

I found these pictures on the computer tonight and thought they were so funny.  Not sure when this was or who took them.  I guess one of the girls did it when I wasn't home sometime. :o)

They play so hard and have SO much fun together!

Life is good when you are 5 and 2!

You know spring is REALLY here when the pecan trees are turning green!  They are the last to turn in the spring!

This little guy is so full of life and personality!

Myles plays hard from the time his feet hit the floor early in the morning until we make him go to bed at night.  He is a creative little fellow and always has some sort of "dress up" grab on.  Usually it is cowboy themed.

I have a lot I want to write about on here but just haven't had time to sit and do it. Thought these pictures were a post in themselves!

~Goodnight

Springtime!

Signs of spring are everywhere here in the south!   The trees are all in bloom, the grass is bright green, the goats have started kidding, and there is a dusting of pollen everywhere!

 

This is our Nubian "Licorice".  She was the first to have babies this year and she gave us triplets.  We sold the girl and are hoping to sell the two boys soon!

I love this Bradford pear tree!  McKenzie and Matthew planted another Bradford pear on our property the summer that my mom died.  We thought we had lost it that summer but it is doing great now!  It looks like it has grown a foot since last year!

Macheus got busted for getting into Madeline's purse!  She has had TWO brand new Burt's Bees lipsticks ruined by this little booger lately.

The hens are all laying again.  They went on strike during some of the cold winter.  So glad to have our own eggs again.  It was really hard to pay over $4.50 for "not so fresh" eggs from the grocery store!  We laughed when I brought a carton home and it had poop on it! :o)

                                                           Malachi  :o)

Myles.... always dressed like a cowboy!

                                                Mr. Independent!

His favorite one liners these days:  "No!"  "I do it!"  "I dunna dit you!" (I'm gonna get you.)  "How you?" (How are you?)  He is a mess and definitely keeps us on our toes these days!

Madeline working Candy after she has had a long lazy winter eating!

Very thankful for this new friend of ours that is a horse trainer/ riding instructor.  She is helping the girls with Candy and trying to help us find another horse to buy.  The girls are wanting to ride together now that Mariah has gotten older.

Marc, Matthew and Malachi just got back from a camping trip this evening.  We had quite an adventure while they were gone.  It is late so I will save that story for another post!  I took the kids to town for supper tonight (love Barberitos kids night!) and the guys got home before we did.  I got a text from Matthew that said,  "You guys didn't tell us that we had more goats."  While we were out another goat,  "Ivy" had twins.... one boy and one girl.  Matt and Madeline just headed out to the barn for a late night feeding.  This is a fun but VERY busy time of year for us!

~Until next time!

George Washington Carver

"I asked the Great Creator what the universe was made for. ‘Ask for something more in keeping with that little mind of yours,’ he replied. What was man made for? Little man, you still want to know too much. Cut down the extent of your request and improve the intent.” Then I told the Creator I wanted to know all about the peanut. He replied that my mind was too small to know all about the peanut, but He said he would give me a handful of peanuts. And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth—to you it shall be meat.’ I carried the peanuts into my laboratory and the Creator told me to take them apart and resolve them into their elements. With such knowledge as I had of chemistry and physics I set to work to take them apart. I separated the water, the fats, the oils, the gums, the resins, sugars, starches, pectoses, and amino acids. There! I had the parts of the peanuts all spread out before me. I looked at Him and He looked at me. ‘Now you know what the peanut is,’ He said. “Why did you make the peanut?” I asked. The Creator said, ‘I have given you three laws; namely, compatibility, temperature, and pressure. All you have to do is take these constituents and put them all together, observing these laws and I will show you why I made the peanut.’ I therefore went on to try different combinations of the parts under different conditions of temperature and pressure and the result is what you see.”  ~George Washington Carver

I loved this quote that Marc read to us this evening during our famly Bible time.  McKenzie did a report on George Washington Carver many years ago for our home school group at the time.  He was a fascinating man.  We have a movie about him that is very good too.