Afternoon with the Girls

Hello my friends! Thanks for stopping by!  For those of you who've been reading my blog for a while you may recognize the flower below and it's significance to me.  For newer readers - the flower is from a Christmas Cactus plant that my mom had and when her Alzheimers got to its worst she stopped caring for her plants and this is the only one we moved with her into the "Memory Care Unit" where she remained until she passed on - just a year ago.  The poor little cactus was dried up to nearly a crisp when I brought it home.  I watered it and put it in my garden window in the kitchen and it's been rewarding me for it's rescue on a regular basis.  When I see these blooms I envision my mother saying hello to me from the next place.. wherever it may be.  :-)

Yesterday afternoon we drove over to visit my daughter and her family.  Amy dressed them in cute little dresses and I took a photo of them each holding 1/2 dozen of our eggs we brought for them.  Sweet, huh?

After visiting for a while we whisked the little granddaughters off to a dinner at Claim Jumper restaurant.  Sweet cheeks below.

Our first grandchild below.. so special to us.  She hasn't been eating much lately so we were so surprised when she gobbled her dinner down and we had to give her more!

Not sure why this face but I think it's adorable.. LOL

After dinner we got them both ice cream sundaes.. do you see the baby has 2 spoons and is eating with both?  I guess she likes ice cream!! :-)

After dinner I asked the girls if they wanted some Easter chocolate and to look at some toys and you should have heard the happy ruckus in the back seat - and off we headed to Target for shopping.  We got them some Lindt gold foil covered bunnies, pink felt bunny baskets and each got to pick out a toy.  Baby got Strawberry Shortcake doll and her sister got something else the name of which escapes me.  Smiles all around!

Below the girls are ready for bed - I brought the monkey skirt project I was working on for the oldest's monkey - I made the baby a monkey recently and added a skirt, so I thought I better make a skirt for the other monkey.  It turned out cute.  The girls are sleepy by now!

Below is a photo I took before we headed to see the girls.  I led an art/craft jury for selecting items for the Vista House Gallery - the jury is held at Rooster Rock State Park and Vista House is the historic building you see on the top of this rock outcropping 733 feet above the Columbia River.  I thought this photo would show how impressive this rock is -- and the new green of the leaves in Spring.

Today we're expecting my brother and his wife to visit - they've been driving all over through several states visiting their kids, grandkids, old friends and now they'll visit us and spend the night - and early next morning brother is taking his wife to the airport to fly to visit her sister in Texas and help them move to the East Coast.  Some tidying and baking will be happening here today! :-)

I hope you are having/had a great weekend and have nice plans for the week ahead.  We are expecting some long awaited nice weather, I do hope you are being blessed with the same.  ((hugs)) Teresa