Return to the blog world:

I have had trouble accessing photos or other difficulties trying to post to the blogsite lately, so I just give up and so the long time between posts. I think I have the photo problem figured out...so now to try to make up for lost time!

I posted the pictures of Mom/Grandma Bemis on Mother's day...So we've made it a year...

Easter Weekend

More crazy Spring weather for Easter Weekend...It rained Friday night, Saturday most of the day, and was rainy and wet on Sunday until about noon. Erin and Jeremy dyed Easter eggs on Thursday evening..I dropped by with her veggie tray to take to her day care party, and stayed for dinner and long enough to make sure they were doing a proper job of coloring the eggs.
On Friday Erin took eggs to school to dye with her class, and then they walked to Lincoln park for a big Easter egg hunt and picnic.
Saturday morning was an indoor Easter Egg hunt at St Mary's..It was in the medical Pavillion because of the rain. It was SOO crowded..I just let Erin go with the 7 year olds, because we couldn't get through the hall to her age group! But she got to see the Easter Bunny and had fun picking up plastic eggs filled with candy.
After that we zoomed over to Barnes and Noble for story time, and a visit from no other than... CLIFFORD, the Big Red Dog. Erin took in one of her plastic eggs to give to Clifford. I saw her open the egg while she was waiting for her turn to talk to him, look at the Hershey kiss, close it up, and then temptation took over and she opened it up again and chomped down the candy...oh well, Clifford, maybe next time...
Easter day I cooked and ate alternately all day long! We went to church, had a turkey dinner at Joy and Rods, and Erin, Lakai and Cree had an egg hunt in the back yard. Then we went to Jer's and I took the Ham dinner and discovered the Easter bunny had been there too...Erin had sooo much fun, and has enough candy to last til next Easter, and I didn't even buy any! Tori was sick and didn't join us...We've all had a flu bug in the last few weeks.

Crazy Spring Weather

Derek came through on his way to Barstow, Ca.where he'll be stationed for a while...At least it is close enough for some weekend visits.
Erin gave her first talk in Primary today. She memorized about 6 lines of a poem about families and I coached her through the rest of it. We practiced it a LOT on Saturday, and had picture cues to help her. She was really cute, even let me put pigtails in her hair. She got about 2/3 of the way through and stopped, looked at me and said loud and clear "Grammie I really want to say my own stuff!" I sort of choked and whispered "lets just finish the poem", and she did, but it will probably be the last time she lets me help her. There was a lot of muffled laughter from the adults, and afterwards every one of the teachers said that what they really wanted to hear was Erin's "own stuff".

Breakfast with Derek

Make a Smilebox postcard