Fun Days, Sun Days

This has been quite a busy week for our family. The weather has been absolutely beautiful, so we've spent a lot of time outside... except for Tuesday when it snowed a couple inches!)
Sweetsa met her first patch of grass and couldn't after be contained on the blanket. She has been rolling all over the place for a while now. This week she began scooting forward, not quite army crawling, but definitely strait line movement vs. rolling to get everywhere (although she still does alot of that too.)
We of course had the requisite egg hunts on Saturday. Mimi and Buddy secured enough eggs to keep the family in candy for a few weeks at least. Javich dropped by our house wearing his pink bunny suit. I wanted to get a picture of the kids with our own Easter Bunny, but they ran away;( When asked on Sunday about being visited by the big pink bunny, Buddy said, "No it's a pig, just like Javich!" So both my kids insist it's a pig suit, NOT a bunny suit. Sorry, Javich!
Javich has posted about the adventures he had this year while wearing that suit on campus and to work! He had my sides hurting as he told me!
Also on Saturday we had a ward talent show. Mimi decided to get a group of girls together and dance to Bach's Sicilienne from Sonata in E Flat Major for Flute and Harpsichord. The girls in pastels danced beautifully and loved the attention from the crowd. The girls in black were quite a bit more timid, occaisionally racing across the stage, spending most of the dance hiding behind the curtains. They were all so cute, and got plenty of applause. I was going to do the famous broomstick trick as my talent, but was unable to, due to a shoulder injury, sigh. I am getting old! So I took two still-warm loaves of my homemade bread* and some home-canned jam...it all got eaten, so I assume that my "talent" was appreciated.

On Sunday we had Family Easter Dinner here at our house. Dani brought her Mom's German Potato Salad, Caroline made her fantastic orange rolls, and Mommy made her Molten Fudge Cake for John's b-day. It all went well with the ham we ate and the "ham" we listened to...inspired by Ree's blog, we listened to Oedipus Tex and Classical Rap as we ate. After dinner, Mimi took ChristieSue and Caroline outside to have Primary. Caroline complained that it was hard to hear with Buddy's lawnmower going.

* Here is the recipe, if you are interested...it's from my mother-in-law.
3 C. hot water
2 Tbsp. yeast
2 Tbsp. powdered suger
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 Tbsp. salt
1/4 C. oil
~8 C. flour
Mix all ingredients but 2 C. flour together, let rest 1 min. Add 2 cups flour and mix for 5 min. Cover and let rise until doubled in size. Cut and form into loaves. Let rise in pan(s). Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown and has a hollow sound when knocked. Makes two loaves. This also works as excellent scone dough (not English -baked- scones, Scandanavian -fried- scones).