First, we had an Easter egg hunt with 155 colored plastic eggs filled with candy. We had 4 inches of snow on the ground that morning (we're so glad the Easter bunny didn't come early) but by the time everybody made it to our house most of the snow had melted.
We had brunch with whatever was in the fridge, including yummy spinach artichoke dip on little toasted slices of French bread, and the
beginning of the boiled eggs...
...and then it was time for Grandma Gene's birthday party.
After the party, video-game enthusiast Colette played wii with Jamison ( B&B went home fairly early, because Ethan began shouting emphatically "Buh-
bye!")
Here is A&J's room, even smaller than a studio apartment, especially when you have visitors over:
Tulips and chives in the vegetable garden (above). Amy laid the concrete pavers in the footpath from the rose arbor to the swing under the lilac bush. The grape hyacinths bloomed out all in a day (below):
Daffodils! We have more in front.
The forsythia and peaches in the swing garden are in bloom. I think I'm going to have to plant things that like part shade there. We have a very sunny yard--although we did plant a new maple tree, two gingko trees, and a peach tree this spring--but most of the places where I could plant flowers are in part shade.
Jamison has been a great help cleaning up the roses and working on miscellaneous other garden chores.
