Mtn. Farm Family: Easter fun!

After an unusual winter with only a couple of snowfalls for us here at the base of Mt. Adams, we were surprised to wake up to 6 inches of fresh snow a couple of days before Easter. The snow kept falling throughout the day until we had about a foot on the ground. Unlike the nightly skiffs of snow we had been getting all week that melted away by noon, this snow decided to stay. We still have patches of snow around even after the sun peeking through today. This made for an interesting Easter egg hunt on Saturday. The annual community Easter egg hunt will always go on--rain or snow or shine!! Kind of like how school is never canceled here in our valley because of snow. The only time it has ever been cancelled in the last--oh...thirty-some years was on account of it being so freezing cold the buses wouldn't start. Yep. We're real die-hards here. Gotta make the most of it when you have snow six months out of the year--typically.

Saturday's Easter egg hunt was anything but typical. The eggs looked as though they were tossed here and there and everywhere in the snow by a frozen-toed Easter bunny eager to get inside and get warm. You wouldn't think that finding brightly colored eggs in a white landscape would be hard, but when they are half buried it is! The kids still had a blast...

Frozen hard-boiled egg? Anyone?

My little Easter bunnies helping to make cookies...

I was super excited and pleased with how Miss Smiley's Easter dress turned out. I found two adorable patterns--one for a dress and the other for a hat--on the website youcanmakethis.com. I recently researched and bought a new sewing machine and was anxiously awaiting its arrival by mail, but it didn't make it before Easter. (It arrived on Monday, wouldn't you know it!) So...I was working away on a borrowed clunker machine (and I mean CLUNKER!!--FarmDad could barely sleep all the way on the other side of the house when I stayed up late to finish.) Thank goodness it clunked it's way through without giving up on me and I got 'er done. I thought about making a matching tie for Tractor Boy and maybe a matching shirt for me, but...maybe for Mother's Day. =) Thank goodness I only have one little darling to dress frilly for Easter. My friend, bless her heart, made THREE adorable twirly dresses for her little girls. I'm not sure I could ever keep up with that!! Here are my little sweethearts ready for church...

Our church puts on an annual community Easter breakfast, complete with huckleberry pancakes, fruit and ham--Yum!! The trick every year is to keep the kids clean until church. Especially when they eat like this...