Happy Easter and Welcome Lady Spring

We had a wonderful Easter/Spring celebration yesterday. The weather was beautiful and the Easter Bunny was able to hide the boys eggs outside this year. We started our morning with pancakes complete with local CT maple syrup. While everyone finished up their pancakes, I went and set up an Easter puppet show. The story was from Suzanne Down Juniper Tree Spring tales. I chose the story of Easteria - the Goddess of Spring. I tried to video tape it for the blog but it cut out half way and after reviewing it - it needs some work before it becomes public!

Ryan was up first to see the Easter Basket. He loves the lap harp and has been playing "beautiful music" on it. Sage received much needed hiking boots..


I loved the way Mother Earth and the black bear came out. I spent a lot of time on them and they are by far the best that I have needle felted so far. I am so excited. They look much better in person!
No more plastic eggs in our house! Well actually I used one plastic egg to wet felt the egg below. Then sewed it up so that it could be opened with out falling apart. Complete with a little bird sitting on M&M eggs and Ryan is a happy boy. He thought it was so funny that the little bird was sitting on m&m eggs. Sage just wants to chocolate bunny - no cute fancy stuff. That is what happens at 13! Plus the boys rarely get chocolate so they go right for it.
Tony delivered this letter from the easter bunny. I was surprised to see it in the morning. He did a great job on it. It is hard to read, but it says that the Easter bunny left eggs in the backyard and needs the boys help to collect them all. I love that he asks the boys to work together and keep what they collect and share with the family.

After all the eggs were collected...

We then played a couple of egg games. One is shown below where a bunch og eggs are set up with coins on top, then you roll down your egg from some sticks and try to knock off the coins. We then played a family egg relay race. That was fun and funny!
Of course Heidi had to get in on the fun. She kept taking the eggs and we would have to chase her around to get it back. It would not be wise for her to eat the egg with egg shells.


With it being such a beautiful day, it was a perfect time to go for a spring hike. I have seen a small area down the road from us for hiking that I have not yet explored so we went there. It was amazing - I had no idea it was there.



Ok I am a blog nerd - I had Tony take a picture of my new hiking fanny pack just to post. I love this pack, it takes alot of weight off my shoulders and I can carry water and snacks - a must!!
Ryan digging for worms

We had a wonderful day and were all exhausted by 6 - well at least Ryan and I. I think Sage was to because after our hike Sage played football and basket ball with the neighborhood kids. I even had a chance to clean out the shed.

HAPPY SPRING!!!!!