{"id":6772,"date":"2017-04-17T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:42:51","slug":"easter-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=6772","title":{"rendered":"Easter Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a lovely Easter this year.\u00a0 The weather wasn’t, but the rest of the day was.\u00a0 It poured rain Sunday morning right before we went to church. Then while in church, the sun came out. Our choir sang an amazing cantata which touched me deeply.\u00a0 There were a lot of people in church. There were two baptisms and one little girl went forward to make a profession of faith. She is the pastor’s granddaughter, so I know it was a special time for him.<\/p>\n

After church we rushed home where some family were already there waiting for us as church ran a little long. We had a delicious meal of ham, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, homemade rolls, corn, salad, potato salad, strawberries and for dessert, chocolate pie, banana cream pie and lemon meringue pie.\u00a0\u00a0 I hadn’t made pies in a long time, but these were a success and today there is only one piece left.<\/p>\n

We visited for a while, but the children were excited about hunting Easter eggs so finally we told them it was time. There were about 200 eggs hidden, some with pieces of paper with dollar signs on them to turn in for dollar bills and some with smiley faces on them to turn in for candy.<\/p>\n

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We made them pose for pictures which was like herding a bunch of cats.<\/p>\n

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Could not keep their hands off each other.<\/p>\n

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Finally, a picture we liked.\u00a0 Although they still all were not looking at the camera.\"DSCN5090\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A picture of our beautiful daughter. I have never written this on my blog, but she has MS.\u00a0 She is the bravest woman I know how she handles this horrible disease. She works almost every day and raises her two boys.\u00a0 I don’t know how she does it, but she took them to the zoo the other day without help.\u00a0\u00a0 She does have a little scooter that she runs around on and that helps.\u00a0 If you have MS or know someone who suffers from it, you know it’s a very unpredictable disease and people who have it are in pain a lot of the time.\u00a0 Anyway, I am proud of her and I pray every day for a cure for this horrible disease that affects so many people.\u00a0 I thank God she has a husband who is very supportive of her and loves her and tries to make her life easier if she will let him!<\/p>\n

Anyway, we finally let the kids go and they were all over the yard like a mouse on cheese and soon they were bringing their eggs up to be counted.\u00a0 Everyone got some money and lots of candy.<\/p>\n

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David was the banker. This is our granddaughter.\u00a0 She asked me\u00a0 how long she got to hunt Easter eggs before she was too old. I told her eighteen when she is an adult.\u00a0 She will be eighteen next year. It broke her heart that she was getting too old to hunt Easter eggs.\u00a0 It broke my heart, too, because she was just a baby yesterday.<\/p>\n

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She got her money this year, though and was happy about it.<\/p>\n

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Her brother, who I always tell him he looks like my dad, and his winnings.<\/p>\n

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David and I saved dollars all year for this day and it’s worth the smiles.<\/p>\n

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Smiles?<\/p>\n

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Our oldest grandson. He’s about six feet tall and weighs one hundred and eighty-five pounds and is a tremendous athlete, lacrosse being his favorite sport.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s fifteen.<\/p>\n

After all the eggs were counted, there were still five left with dollar signs in them that hadn’t been found so out they all went again and scoured the yard until they found them all. I know there is still an egg or two out there in the yard somewhere. Just recently I found one from last year.<\/p>\n

It was a fun day and the weather became just gorgeous in the afternoon. The garden was at its perfection.\u00a0 After everyone left to go home, it poured down rain again.<\/p>\n

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Oh, I wish you could smell these lilacs.\u00a0 They perfume the entire front garden. We cut several bouquets for us and\u00a0 some for the kids\u00a0to take home with them.<\/p>\n

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This has certainly been a beautiful Spring.\u00a0 It lasts such a short time so I take lots of pictures I can look at in the dead of Winter to remind me the garden will come back again next year.<\/p>\n

I hope you had a wonderful Easter.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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