Swinging on Easter Sunday

Having a Swinging Time .....

Another beautiful day and its Easter Sunday !! This morning I took the girls with their Build A Bear Blossom Bunny's to Weber Park and we went swinging ..... the Blossom Bunnys were a hit ... no one seems to be missing chocolate at all ... thank heavens ... Every one is playing on front porches, on sidewalks , front screen doors are slamming. Yesterday it seemed as if the only sight of our bleeding hearts you could spot was a little bit of red barely sprouting out of the ground. Today they look like little plants with leaves showing and standing about 5 inches. The rose bush has little buds on it everywhere ....oh I hope we don't get a bad frost !! It seems as if all of nature is convinced spring has arrived !

The Swingers of Locust St

The growth of the Bleeding Hearts ...The picture on top is from the shady side of the house but the plants below looked like this just a couple of days ago....now take a look at them ...its unbelieveable !!!!!

OK So Here's The Deal .......

So ... Chris likes his hair long and well ...out of control... I like it looking like he just forgot to shave this morning...and hair fairly close cropped.... Chris, well he likes my hair or rather would like to see my hair ..I am gathering... since he has never really seen it that length ....... long and flowing ... the longer the better. So we are both not happy with the follicle situation....how to resolve. Well it occurred to me that we could come to some resolution on this.....

So this is how it will go down - Chris gets a hair cut and beard trim every three months, and I don't get my hair cut at all. A scary thought this, but we shall see how it goes. We decided on this while we were on our couples weekend and this past week was my due date for my regular hair cut .. so I didn't ... see our posted pictures so progress and/or lack thereof is or becomes clearly evident !!!

Gotta Love Spring......

It is always so wonderful in the spring to see everyone emerge from our caves of winter ..... all the children seem to have grown up somehow - at least , everyone elses children seem to have. Every one is out on the street , wanting to talk , to catch up , to connect and of course the kids have already made the connections again ....zipping up and down the street on bicycles, tricycles, skateboards and scooters, playing tag, bouncing on the neighbours trampoline -remembering and/or being reminded of the rules of doing so , and realigning friendships and interests !!! So wonderful to be a part of !!!


This spring our little neighbour Sarah and Carolina have hit it off and seem to be 'of a kind' ...into tea parties and girlie type stuff ( and both rather strong minded ) !! Yesterday Carolina invited Sarah to lunch and set up a tea party on the front yard. She then asked that lunch be delivered to the front porch and there they were like two prim and proper ladies sitting on the little garden bench and using the cafe chairs as tables for their lunch dishes. Meanwhile Rosalind and our little neighbour Lily were spending time together on their scooters ...... speeding up and down the sidewalks having a blast !!!!

Last night just as I was calling the girls in, Chris brought out some sparklers .... and ......magic !!!!! ... Lily, Rosalind, Carolina ran around making crazy designs in the air.... and I have to admit so did Kari and I, as Chris worked hard just to keep everyone with a lit sparkler in hand !!!!!

Spring ........Dontcha just love it !!!

Hippety hop ...

Hippety hop hippety hop hippety hop ..... The bunnies have arrived ...... I decided this year that chocolate would not be a part of the Easter bunny's offerings - at least not by me ...so giving in to the current passion of our two darling princesses, I took myself off to the Build A Bear store and got them a Blossom Bunny Bear each and of course one for the third very special princess in our lives, our granddaughter, Jillian Marie. Hopefully they will be a big hit tomorrow and the lack of chocolate will go unnoticed -we shall see .........