Columbia

  A couple of month's ago we made reservations to go camping in New Brighton Beach during the kid's spring break vacation.  2 days before we were scheduled to leave for New Brighton Beach, John got on the Internet and started reading comments from people who had camped at the beach lately stating that there were lot's of problems with theft going on, so we cancelled our reservations and went to Columbia instead.
Sunday afternoon after church we left for Columbia.  Monday we went up past Big Tree's State Park to the snow.  We haven't been to the snow for 4 years so the girls really wanted to go play in the snow.  There was still lot's of it too.

 

Mikayla making a snow angel.



Ashlee making a snow angel.





John sunk in the snow up to his waist. 



The little red saucer was left there by someone else and it was broke.



Mikayla wants to try to use the broken red saucer.

After about an hour of snow ball fights, sinking in the snow and trying to walk in the snow, we were done.  The girls were freezing.  Mikayla was crying because her feet were so cold, red and hurting.  We went back to the truck. The girls changed into some dry clothes and we drove down the road to White Pines Lake for our picnic lunch.

After our lunch we decided to start heading back to our campground in Columbia.  But, once we got to Murphy's we decided to go check out Iron Stone Vineyards.  We always hear alot about the vineyards on the radio because they have an outdoor amphitheater there and they have concerts there.  The kids didn't want to stop there, but we did anyways and we were all glad we did.  There were so many flowers in bloom, It was beautiful.  I wish I had these flowers in my yard.  Ashlee took almost all the pictures here.  I wish we were all more presentable and could've had some family pictures taken here.

Tuesday we walked into Columbia.  John and the girls decided that they wanted to pan for gold.  John could've stayed here all day if we let him.

Wednesday we came home and planted our garden and did some yard work.  We have had horrible wind the last few days.  So it's going to be a miracle if there are any seeds left in our garden.

Easter

Saturday we celebrated Easter at my mom's house.  We had a bbq (we even barbacued some rabbit) I think that it was kind of wrong to cook rabbit on Easter, but we did it anyways.  Everyone who was brave enough to try the rabbit liked it.  After eating we had an Easter Egg Hunt.  There was a golden egg with $10.00 in it and all the kids wanted to find it.  Hailee ended up finding it.

Mikayla opening her Easter treats.

Landon

Ashlee and Hailee.

Dylan

 The Egg Hunt.  We had over 100 eggs.

Ashlee, Hailee, Mikayla, Dylan and Landon

 Dylan's 8th birthday fell on Easter Day this year. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday too.

Dylan took the time to read each and every card.

We had cupcakes and ice cream bars for Dylan's birthday.

The kids spent lot's of time riding this and the golf cart.  They love to go ride when they are at grandma's house.

Grandpa Billy (Ashlee took this picture).  He turns 70 this year.  I think this picture may come in handy later this year.

Kay and Grandpa Billy

This is a real frog that died and is stiff like this.  John had fun arranging it for a photo shoot.

Easter morning.  Opening treats from the Easter Bunny.  Mikayla got some candy, chapstick, finger nail polish, and coloring books.  Ashlee got candy, chapstick, finger nail polish and the game Farkel.