easter

March 31, 2013- Easter has come and gone providing much family fun and proof that He is Risen!

Since I'm posting this way after Easter I don't remember many of the details but the pictures prove we had a great time!

Decorating Easter Eggs:

My sugar cookies never hold their shape and usually end up looking like a big puffy blob, so I tried a new recipe.  

Good News: It worked and the cookies came out perfect!  

Bad News: I couldn't find my Easter cookie cutters so we had round biscuit shaped cookies.  And tractors.

The Easter Bunny stopped by and spoiled the River Boys again.

We did a little egg hunting before Mass.

Two Golden Eggs.  How convenient.

After Mass we headed into Kerrville for lunch and found a small patch of bluebonnets on the side of a building.  The River Boys indulged me with a picture.  Hope you enjoy it because it turns out this is the ONLY bluebonnet pics we took this year.  Sad, I know.  My Texas citizenship should be revoked.

  The rest of the day was spent at Oma & Opa's house.  More egg hunting.

After the hunt there is always a cascarone fight/wrestling match with Uncle Duke.  It's tradition.

Then a little bit of fishing.

Oh and the week prior to Easter Pecos had his church program.  He was a red jelly bean.

Since I just can't seem to find the time to update the blog as quickly or as often as I'd like, most of our life ends up on Instagram.  Here's the Instagram version of Easter:

{kinder} easter egg hunt

April 5, 2012- The kindergarten kids at Harper Elementary sure had fun at their Easter egg hunt this year. They made a very short trip across the highway to hunt eggs in Mrs. Lange's yard.

He's on the hunt!

Counting and inspecting the loot.

Must be something good in this one!

After the egg hunt and sorting of goodies, the kids enjoyed lunch on quilts in the backyard.  Then we sent them back to school with their goody bags filled with whistles, stamps and all sorts of other things that are normally not allowed in the classroom!

easter excitement

April 24, 2011- Easter brought lots of excitement for the Worrell cowboys. 

First up was egg dyeing.  Pecos had been asking me for two weeks to dye eggs so he was extremely excited when the hour finally arrived.  Brazos was a mere bystander; I know better than to let him anywhere near colored liquid.

The result:

 

the easter basket loot



checking out the loot



hunting eggs at home- with the help of Charolais kitty, Angus kitty and the turkeys that still refuse to leave our yard

 After a morning full of candy, toys, egg-hunting it was off to Mass.  Then a quick lunch and short rest before heading off to Oma & Opa's for more egg-hunting and dinner. 

Easter Nests are a German tradition and Oma did a good job putting together a nest for each of the boys.

Easter Nests, more egg-hunting and a cascarone battle provided plenty of fun

pecos cotton tail

April 2010- Pecos had a fun time this Easter. It started with an Easter egg hunt at church the week before Easter. Here he is with his little harem of girls from church. This was the first year he was really "in" to the whole egg hunting thing. Previously either he didn't catch on or just wasn't interested. But this year he was really eager to fill his basket with eggs. I suppose I should have tried to cinch up his jeans and belt a little tighter, what with all the bending down that is required of egg hunting. So here is this year's HAPPY KEESTER photo.Next it was on to baking and decorating sugar cookies with Oma. Was he making cookies or a mess- you decide. Either way, in the words of Pecos it was "a whole bunch of fun!"

Dyeing eggs is always fun. I stripped him down because I knew there would be some ruined clothes if I didn't.

He took his job VERY SERIOUSLY.

Here's the results:

The Easter Bunny left a basket full of goodies for Pecos.

And even hid some of the eggs out in the yard for him to hunt. Egg hunt #2, this time in his cowboy hat and Indian shoes (another souvenir from the authentic roadside joint in New Mexico).

Pecos even got all dressed up for Mass on Easter Sunday. Well, to him it wasn't necessarily dressing up, it was just dressing like daddy that mattered. And for the record, this is not a maternity dress I'm wearing so if you see me wear it again after the baby is born don't think I'm depressed or wishing I were pregnant again. It just happened to be one of the few things in my closet that was big enough to cover my massive belly but still look nice enough for church.

Sunday afternoon it was off to Oma & Opa's for more fun. Pecos had fun busting cascarone eggs with Uncle Duke.

Then it was egg hunt #3, with Uncle Duke in hot pursuit. Pecos declared himself the winner.

After all that we had time to head down to the river and do a little fishing. Uncle Duke is an expert fisherman and he showed Pecos how to catch a mudcat.

easter- pecos style

April 12, 2009- The Easter bunny was good to Pecos this year. For weeks leading up to Easter he told us the Easter bunny would bring him a tool box and new tools. On Easter morning Pecos was decked out in his Christmas pajamas and looking for prizes from the Easter bunny. So his color coordination was a little off but he didn't care- he was in it for the tools.
And who needs a basket to hunt eggs? As you can see he would rather tote around his new tool box.On to the egg hunt at Oma's house....after a few eggs he was done. So much for eggs, Pecos would rather play with rocks and climb fences (big surprise, I know).
And we had to make sure the Easter bunny brought something for the other kid in the family- Uncle Duke. He and Pecos had fun with their lollipop lips.