Happy Easter

Dyeing Eggs

This morning Hannah and I dyed Easter eggs. I wasn't planning on doing it until my friend Brooke emailed me a recipe for which I had all of the ingredients. We put on old clothes and got to it. Hannah enjoyed herself. She threw eggs on the table. Luckily they were hard boiled! And played in the dye. When we got done we had very little dye on us and only two eggs were cracked (one from Hannah and one from Mommy).

Mommy's Helper is Getting Bigger

We are still feeding cows in this neck of the woods. The grass appears to have begun to green up in the last week but we are still a long way from turning them out to pasture. My little helper now hangs out in the pickup while I feed the cows. She is too adventurous right now to be trusted on the feed wagon when it is really full of hay.

She would like to be on the feed wagon however. Here are the tears of disappointment. We normally include the "Happy Hannah" pictures and I just wanted to assure you that like every baby she cries too!

Sorry about the really dirty windows. It's just the feed pickup so who cares?!

Whirl Wind Trip

We just got home last night from a whirl wind trip to Chico and Sacramento. We left Sunday morning and headed to Chico. We stopped at Ben's aunt and uncle's to drop off out things and visit for awhile. Then we headed to Paradise to visit Ben's Grandpa and his wife. We spent several hours with them. They really enjoyed getting to see their great-granddaughter. We headed back to Chico in time to eat dinner and see a new cousin.

We got up early Monday morning and headed to Sacramento. We stopped on our way in to see Ben's other Grandpa and Grandma. They too loved the surprise visit of their grand kids and great-granddaughter. We spent a couple of hours with them and then headed into Sacramento for the purpose of our trip.

Ben attended the California Farm Bureau Leadership Conference where he served as a representative for Modoc County on the Wheat and Feed Grains committee. He was in committee meetings all afternoon so Hannah and I did some shopping. Really we only made it to two places before I was worn out and got tired of driving around in circles trying to get to places. For some reason in big cities I have a hard time driving directly to places I want to go.

We made it back to our room and rested for awhile. When Ben got out of his meeting we went to dinner and then came back and headed to bed.

Tuesday morning Ben went down to listen to guest speakers and Hannah and I went and visited my aunt. Again I couldn't drive straight there! We had a good visit with her and then we headed back to the hotel room to check out. We had lunch with Ben and other people from Modoc County and then headed back home.

Hannah slept from just outside Sacramento until about Shasta Lake. She decided it was time to get out the of the pickup. We took the next exit and happened upon a little campground and day use area called Bailey Cove. It was a beautiful day. It was about 65 degrees out, calm and sunny. It really made me want to go camping there but I knew it would get cold at night. Hannah was ready to get out and stretch her legs so we let her crawl around the day use area for awhile.

Hannah is now convinced that pine needles are not an approved part of a baby girl's diet!

Reading Time

Every night that Daddy is home at bedtime he reads a couple of books to Hannah. As a matter of fact when I read to Hannah before bed time she turns around several times to try to figure out why I'm reading and Daddy isn't. Here they are reading Hannah's favorite book "Guess Who Farm Friends." She has enjoyed it since she was a couple of months old and therefore it has already seen a lot of repairs. It has a pop-up at the end she just can't keep her hands off of. The little lamb has been ripped out several times now and has forever lost one of his ears.

Weight Check

Hannah had a weight check one week ago. She weighed 16 pounds 9 ounces. She had gained 8 ounces in 4 weeks. The doctor seems to be pleased with her progress. She is beginning to climb back up the percentiles as she recovers from having had the flu about 5 weeks ago. She remains on the "weight gainer" diet and loves all the good food she gets to eat.