Easter Weekend

I hope your Easter Weekend was wonderful.

I spent my weekend giving a lot of though of the real meaning of Easter...

I was humbled...very humbled as I reflected on the life and death of our Savior.

Having family makes the holidays extra special.

Saturday morning was our ward's (church) Easter breakfast and egg hunt.

Miss H totally got into the egg hunt. She was so polite going to other eggs, when she saw others kids charging towards bunches of eggs. 

She loved having these two special men in her life helping her.

She made quite the "haul".

She really got into it when she saw that there was candy inside the plastic eggs.

After the hunt, she enjoyed opening her eggs. She LOVED the solid chocolate eggs.

We realized after we got to the church that we were all in matching clothes.

Saturday evening Miss C came over to dye Easter eggs.

The had lots of fun and we had really pretty eggs.

Easter Morning came with baskets of goodies, new Easter dresses and ties.

We were able to get a couple of pictures before leaving for church.

After everyone was done with their church meetings, all of the kids 

and their families came and ate turkey and enjoy the beautiful day.

I can not put into words how much I love these four people....

can't see the 4th person? Look up on the balcony :o)

My kids crack me up...

I don't think I have ever taken pictures of them and not had a few with them 

showing off their great personalities!

The girls where having a fun playing outside on the slide.

Miss E didn't come out because she has a little cold.

So, Ali hung out on the balcony watching the fun.

The girls loved chasing after the guys while they were playing disc golf around the yard.

Even the neighbor's dog wanted to get into the fun.

It was a wonderful weekend.

Memories were made.

Quiet Please

What have I been doing...Not blogging...

I have been watching these little girls that have more energy than anyone should have

 or at least a lot more than what I have!

but today...they decided it was going to be a quiet pajama day,

Pillows, blankets, "suckies" and Tangle playing on the TV.

AWESOME!

Even Evie decided she was going to have quiet day.

I got a few things done PLUS was able to blog!

My Little Ladies

Josh, Ali and the girls came over the other night.

We were hoping to get a couple of pictures of the girls in their cute

BIG sister/ LITTLE sister shirts.

Miss  C does not like flashes from cameras so she was already covering her eyes.

Miss EV was just not in the mood.

Miss C let me get a picture of her

as Miss EV just wanted her momma.

After realizing we were not going to have luck with the pictures, the girls went and climbed into the snuggle chair to visit.

Grabbing our cameras we started to snap as many pictures as we could.

( My thought was we should get at least one good one)

The girls would sing

"CHEEEEZZZZZEEEEE"

but still getting them to both look at the camera at the same time.

We even tried to sneak Miss EV in for a few of the shots.

Still no luck getting all the eyes looking up at the same time.

Soon, all were tired of the camera so we put them away.

But, I thought we got some cute little candid shots.

AND 

Look at our youngest little lady.

She is such a sweety and I can not believe how much she is changing.

She is so alert and sweet.

I am feeling pretty blessed.

26 Months of Changes and Blessings

I was looking through pictures of our grand daughters today when they were all just new.

In just 26 short months we have been blessed with these amazing little girls in our family.

 2010

Miss C ~ 2 weeks old

2011

Miss H ~ 2 months old

and

2012

Miss E ~ 2 days old

The other thought I had looking at the pictures...

vain I know...

But, I am glad the biopsy bruises and Prednisone side effects

are not quite as obvious.

Life is so very, very good.

Look Who Is 2

Miss C !

Our sweet little grand daughter a few hours after she was born.



 Celes' birth was my first time "sneaking" home after my heart transplant, but I was not going to miss the birth of my first grand baby. What an amazing experience.

This was last year celebrating her 1st birthday

A year later her facial expressions are the same and still just make you smile. 

Miss C is a total ELMO fan.

Her mom went all out on having an Sesame Street party.

  Check out the spread of yummy finger foods.

 a Grouch and Elmo relish trays

The food and cake were so yummy.

With all the food and gifts...

Miss C was happiest with her books

and setting in her daddy's lap having them

read to her.

Happy Birthday Miss C.

Te Quiro

I Love You!







Seriously There Is A Shortage Of

HELIUM!!!!

 I thought it was a joke when we went to rent a helium tank for Miss H's B-day in February, and I was told that they were not renting the tanks because of a "SHORTAGE".

I didn't give it any more thought until last Friday when I went to get balloons for Josh's B-day and was told that they had plenty of balloons but NO helium...

Oh, OK ... I will go to the other place that I knew did balloons...sorry they could not help me they too were out of helium.

Again, I gave no other thought of the lack of Helium, I chalked it up to poor orderinng and management skills of said before stores to have ran out of something that there should be several full tanks setting together next to all of the cute balloons.

I started to make phone calls and found that Smith's did have the much desired gas, even though Helium is the second most abundant element in the known Universe (after hydrogen), it was allusive in Burley.

 

Cont...

The next day I needed to go to Twin Falls to get Kirk's Father's Day gift and "a Dorothy" if you do not know who Dorothy is you must be missing

on Sesame Street.

Dorothy is Elmo's goldfish.

No, NOBODY sells goldfish in Burley either...

anyways...

back to the Helium.

Ali and Josh were celebrating Miss C's b-day on Saturday because they would not be able to on her upcoming birthday.

Besides "Dorothy"

I wanted to get a 2 foot Elmo balloon I had seen at Zurcker's.

Yes, my little granddaughter LOVES Elmo and anything that has to do with him.

as I enter the store there is a big sign that says:

"DUE TO HELIUM SHORTAGE"...blah blah blah blah

I couldn't believe it!

PLEASE,Tell me that Zurcher's would be able to fill up my much desired balloon.

WHEW...they could.... as long as it was NOT pre-ordered.

If I had been reading

Physics Today in 2007 I would have already known about this shortage.

Kaplan, Karen H. (June 2007). "Helium shortage hampers research and industry". (American Institute of Physics) 60 (6): 31–32.

After reading on line about the shortage, 

I would see words like goverment and regulations ect...

BUT REALLY how are we having a shortage of the

second most abundant element in the known Universe.

Don't they know how important balloons are to parties????

Thanks to Smith's and Zurcher's my birthday surprises where a hit!

Did you know there was a shortage of He????