70s. Sun. Food. This may have just been the best Easter we've had so far. We started out the day with a lazy morning and two giant hams roasting in the oven. This was followed up by sunbathing in Mom and Dad Gailan's back yard while cute little (and not so little) kiddos gathered poorly hidden eggs.
Dana hiding an egg. See if you can find it:)
See...I told you golf ran in the family. Our kids are doomed.
It was a fabulous day with delicious food and fun family from the west side. Sunday Dana and I were welcomed into the Moxee ward in the traditional manner--talks. Thankfully, we were speaking alongside Sister Mitchell (possibly the most intelligent person we've ever met) who had enough to say for all of us. Easter evening we went for a long walk around Moxee. Best weekend ever! We're trying to eat less chocolate so this was our Easter basket. Yes, those are golf balls in the eggs. Yes, I know I'm an enabler
On a sidebar, we spent all of last week preparing our backyard for sprinklers and sod. When we first moved in, our backyard was just dirt and a few leftover pieces of concrete. One good rainstorm and a few days of sun turned it into this:
Seems harmless right? Wrong. Those cute little green things are horrible weeds the locals call 'goatheads'. When they mature they send out these awful burrs all over the yard. So we had to get rid of them. First, we tried pulling them up by hand. That took all Monday night and we had this:
Then we went at it Tuesday night. On Wednesday, we were all set to give it another go even though both our hands were cramping and we still had 3/4 of the yard to do and Dana looked like he'd been hit by a mack truck. That was when our very nice neighbor, Josh, walked over with his miracle de-weeding tool and voila! We finished the rest that night, ruined our backs, but can now look out on this marvelous sight.
Gorgeous. And we realized it's crazy that we spent a full week getting our lawn back to the way it originally looked a month ago. Washington has a sense of humor. Wait until the sod goes in and we will officially be in heaven!
On a sidebar, we spent all of last week preparing our backyard for sprinklers and sod. When we first moved in, our backyard was just dirt and a few leftover pieces of concrete. One good rainstorm and a few days of sun turned it into this:
Seems harmless right? Wrong. Those cute little green things are horrible weeds the locals call 'goatheads'. When they mature they send out these awful burrs all over the yard. So we had to get rid of them. First, we tried pulling them up by hand. That took all Monday night and we had this:
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