Garden Box

I work for a vinyl fence company and have some of the best bosses ever. If you remember last summer I got to go to Alaska and stay at their fishing lodge...one of my favorite things ever. This year I asked if I could have a couple of garden boxes made and here is one of them. I just love the way it looks. My other box is smaller and I don't have it planted yet. I will post a picture when I do.
I actually work the division of the company that does all out of state sales and military bases. When I asked for a garden box the brother that owns the Arizona portion of the business offered to make my boxes. I am blessed to work for such a great family. In this box I have tomatoes, several varieties and some squash. My dad told me that I need to thin out the squash that I planted with seeds but I just can't make myself pull any out yet but it all is growing so fast I will have to soon. The strawberries you see there in front and a couple of smaller plants sitting inside the planter are actually going to go into the smaller box...next weekends job. Thanks Lindblom family...I love my job!

Easter

What fun Easter celebration we had with all the kids. We decided to do it on Sat. night...I really wanted to do it at night so we could have a glow in the dark easter egg hunt. More on that later. Anyway we started out grilling hamburgers. I know that doesn't sound to much like Easter but it sounded good so we went for it and Brett did a great job of the grilling...they were great. Above are the goodie bags they all went home with along with the little bunnies each got at their place setting. I tried to put these at the end but for some reason they just won't move so here they are. The girls really loved the bunnies but the boys could just see the sucker they are made with. After everyone had eaten all the little ones were ready for egg coloring. If you notice most have their shirts off...no that was not a requirement but they all had new shirts so their parents didn't want egg dye on them so they all took them off. So I guess we had shirtless egg dying.

Shirts or no shirts they all had fun and came out with some really pretty eggs. We had 5 kiddies and 5 colors of egg dye so everyone got to do one egg and then passed their color of dye to the next person. This worked great for a while and then everyone started to grab to get their favorite colors until the eggs were all colored.

As you can see Hunter was really concentrating to get just the right shade of blue. Funny how some were patient enough to get bright colors and some were more impatient, they ended up with the pastel colors. Either way they were pretty.

Now onto the "glow in the dark" egg hunt. I had seen the idea on Pinterest and really wanted to try it. So I found some glow in the dark bracelets and talked Julie and Carrie into stuffing them into the eggs. They really had to shove them in to get the eggs to shut. While the kids were busy coloring eggs they went out and hid the glow in the dark eggs. I tried to take a picture but since it was dark the flash went off and you couldn't see the eggs. Take my word for it tho, it looked really cool. The kids loved it. Down side to it all tho, we noticed some of the liquid in the glow in the dark bracelets started to leak since they were stuffed so tightly into the eggs. We decided to be on the safe side we needed throw them all away. The kiddies were pretty disappointed but better safe than sorry. Of course later on we found the dog eating some of them and it didn't bother her.

I had another game to play after the egg hunt but unfortunately it was getting late and the parents were ready to get the kids home so that they could get to bed for the Easter Bunny to visit them. Maybe next year. Fun was had by all tho. I think the glow in the dark egg hunt needs to become a tradition at Grandma's house. Oh by the way...I hear I could have bought glow in the dark eggs at Walmart. That probably would have been much easier. Next Year.