Spring Training

Everyone knows that March is Spring Training don't they? You know, all the baseball teams start getting ready for the season. And where you ask do they do this?  Well in Arizona of course!

I was fortunate enough to be out there at the beginning of March - got to stay with my grand kids while the parents were out of town and of  course we took in a game - wouldn't you?

But, just a few days before I went out there we had New Food Night. And in honor of Spring Training we did Ball Park Food.  Is your mouth watering?

Of course we have to set the mood.

Yes, that is my ball glove from when I played softball up until my 7th grade when a bad case of blood poisoning that  put me in the hospital for a week just at the beginning of the season.  I was a wicked short stop

Everyone has hot dogs at the ball game.  Miss Annette wrapped them so we would have the real experience.

And Michael had brats with sauerkraut.

Mr. Rick gave us the experience of loaded nachos complete with chili and cheese sauce.

Gary made some Philly Cheese steak sandwiches.

Our plates were pretty full.

And what is a ball game without some Cracker Jacks?

I made some cracker jacks and put them in individual containers. They were complete with a little prize of course.

There you have it our tribute to Spring Training.

Easter Eggs

It's that time of year again when we celebrate Easter.

Easter brings thoughts of new Easter clothes. Pretty frilly dresses for the little girls.  Easter bonnets.
Cute little toddler boys in little suits and ties.  Easter baskets filled with candies and all sorts of goodies. Easter egg hunts.  Family dinner

Now I also think of Jesus and His death on the cross and how He arose again on the third day to bring us the assurance of life everlasting if we trust in Him.

This is the important part of Easter but not what this post is about today. My post today is about coloring Easter eggs.

Yep - I still color Easter eggs at my house. I have a couple of grand kids that live near enough they can come in to my house and color eggs. And my daughter and her husband who live in a group home enjoy coloring Easter eggs. In fact the first Easter after they were married when we colored Easter eggs Robert told me it was the first time he had ever colored them (very sad considering he was like 27 or so). So we continue to color Easter eggs at my house and probably always will.

So what you say?  Well - my daughter and I are always looking for new fun ways to color eggs. so I have been researching (OK - I admit my research is Pinterest). I have come across some cool looking ideas and am trying to decide which we will do, rubber band eggs, kool-aid eggs, sharpie eggs. These are just a few of the ideas.

One idea I have seen on Pinterest and also on Facebook makes me cringe.

That's right - CRINGE!

What could be so horrible about coloring Easter eggs you ask?

NAIL POLISH!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it looks so pretty!

What's the big deal?

Looks easy enough right?

I'm here to warn you it probably isn't.

WHY you ask?

Well a few years ago there was a Pinterest idea very similar to this to paint your nails.  Looks like the same technique and the end results looked awesome!

Let me tell you, I tried it - IT WASN'T!!

It was a total disaster!!!!

Brought Gary and Michael a lot of laughs at my expense.  I'm just glad that K.C. was kind enough to help me clean myself up.

It was the worst thing I have ever done!!!  So bad that I devoted one of my posts to it.  Check out my post about Nail-tastrophe to get a better idea.

I just wanted to discourage anyone from tying this and hopefully preventing a egg-tastrophe from occurring.

If you try this - let me know how it turns out but I'm thinking we will be doing something different at my house.