Hopping to Kansas!

The yellow daffodils, purple hyacinths, & Bradford pears are in full bloom.  So that must mean it is Easter time and Easter weekend means going to Ricki's house. 

The weather radio woke us up about 5:45 with weather alerts on Friday morning. I went over and picked up mother after the thunderstorm had watered in our fertilizer that had been applied earlier in the week. We started out about 10 am and took our time going up.

Arrived at Ricki's about 4 pm. Chris was home and welcomed us in.  Well maybe I made him hug me!  John had been gone all week working in Denver and he arrived home right after us.  Ricki drove in about 5:30.  She looks good and has now lost about 65 lbs.

She had prepared chicken the night before and she fixed us scrumptious chicken wraps with pistachio salad & chips. Really good.  I made some Easter cream cheese sugar cookies that were devoured.

We played some ping pong and Rock Band with Chris and Ricki did some more cooking for Saturday.

This was the cheering section.

Ricki cooked this for us. She made a carrot cake and chocolate chips cookies.

I didn't sleep too good so I was up about 3:30am the next morning.  Got up and browsed the internet and played with my new phone until others got up.  That morning we did some more cooking and then John, Ricki, Don and I went for a 3 mile walk.  Chris went with us on this roller blades.  That was a bad idea because he came home with blisters on both feet.  Hope they feel better Chris.

Mac and his family were coming up but were going shopping at the Plaza first.  They got to the house about 5 after a few phone calls to find their way to Ricki's house.  That gps is great if we listen to them.  LOL
Morgan's girlfriend Carrie was with them. She was soooo cute! 

Mom was able to set with the kids at dinner and had a great time talking about Daddy and the family.  She doesn't get to spend much time with Chris and Morgan and I hope they had as good of time as Mom did.  She was so glad they were interested in hearing her stories.

Ricki's menu included pork tenderloin, her famous spinach salad with strawberries, deviled eggs, pistachio salad, & roasted vegetables. Yum Yum

I can't forget to tell you about the 3 dogs that were in the house.  They got a lot of attention and they all are such good dogs.  Ricki's dogs, Hershey the black cocker and Rusty the red cocker are so loving and will crawl up in anyone's lap. My dog, Abby the schnauzer, is pretty easy to adapt to the situation.  She loves to be petted and held but most of the time won't jump into your lap.  They all get along great.  Abby pretty much tries to ignore the others. 

Easter calls for family pictures. So here they are.

I know I need to open my eyes.

Easter morning, everyone went to a different service.  Ricki went at 7:30, John went about 9:00 and Mac's family went at 9:30.  Mom decided not to go because she hadn't slept good the night before.
Everyone was back by 11:30 and Tom and Judy joined us for lunch.  Judy brought a delicious coconut cream pie and a strawberry pie.  Everyone loved them.

After lunch Mac's family packed up and headed out to do a little more shopping before they headed to Tulsa.

Tom showed mom and Don a new genealogy program on the computer that he was using.

I signed up to walk with Ricki in the Susan G Koman 3 day walk (60 miles) in Dallas, TX on November 5-7.
We both have to raise $2,300 before we go so if you want to sponsor us let me know. 

We had a great time John thanks for being such a gracious host.