easter 2018

Last weekend The Ponderosa hosted our annual Easter picnic and egg hunt.  Seventy plus friends and family members gathered for some good food and to visit with each other.  We had egg hunts for the littles and the adults!  I'm not sure which one has the most fun.  The weather was ideal.  This party is an annual tradition and we always  have it on the Saturday before Easter. We grill ribs, and chicken and hot dogs and everyone brings a dish to create an Easter feast.

Chloe the Easter Bunny.  She's been hunting eggs here since she was little bitty!

Granny Lerion's jello eggs--another Easter tradition

The little hunters

Kreelynn had to have a taste of her eggs!

The big hunters!

Looking for prizes!

Friends at the egg tree!

BeBe the Easter Kid

Ruth and Delilah friends since birth.

Betty Jo and her nieces Lerion and Sybil

Cousins sharing a little mac and cheese!

Abby and Bebe

If there's an orange ring around your mouth, its been a great afternoon!

Happy Easter
2018

church family

These people are the best!  They are my church family and friends.  We are the most mature people at First Christian Church, and we have lunch together once a month.  Mrs. Martha Simmons (first one on the right, second row) is the cook.  Martha prepares everything and we all just come and eat and visit. Sometimes we play a game or have some other activity but mostly we just fellowship.  Its a great time, we all love each other.  The world should take lessons from us, we just get along and enjoy being together! Its not that hard and the room is always filled with laughter and stories!

easter decor

He said, "Why is there an eight on the door?"

welcome spring

Spring arrived this week.  It looked like this!

when it takes longer than you thought

We just wanted a new trash bin that looked nice so we purchased one. It was on sale and cheaper than we thought when we got to the checkout so we were pleased.

What we didn’t sign up for was the frustration caused by this!

Worst Directions on the Planet

Took us all afternoon and much reading and re-reading to get it done. Next time we will probably pay an assembly charge!

sunday celebrations

Last Sunday, we celebrated my recent birthday(62) with ice cream cake and presents.  We also celebrated my niece Shelby with a wedding shower.  

Shelby and Darin Chilton were married in Gatlinburg, TN in January and today we had a wedding shower at the Etter Baptist Church.

inspired to return

I let a year pass without a post. I quit. I felt guilty but it was easy just to ignore the blog. No excuses, I had time.
Yesterday I gave Brynn some scrapbook paper and she ask what it was for. I was having a hard time explaining what a scrapbook was so I showed her the one I created in 2014. I recorded our whole life that year I did not miss a week. I did it so one day the grand kids would have something their nana had made to show them what just plain daily life was. Oh there are special days and celebrations in it, but my purpose was to create a history for them. I had wished my own grandmothers had kept a journal or a better record other than a box of pictures.  Her reaction was just what I wanted. She was fascinated, could not put it down, read every word. Her brother joined us.  He too wanted to look.

Then, they both decided they wanted to make one too.

So we started one for both.

And now I am back.

small town christmas

This weekend our town celebrated Christmas with a tree lightning, Christmas Marketplace and a parade.  The festivities began on Friday afternoon and lasted until Saturday.  Our family helps with the Market and participates in the Parade. 

Merry Christmas!