Happy Monday Sweet Peas

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Afternoon Sweet Peas,

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Hope you all had a Wonderful Easter!

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Full of gratitude and love for your Savior

and family and/or friends.

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Well,  we were just in "Hog Heaven" cause the

Lord was willing, and both our children and their

friends were able to come to church, which made

it all the more joyful for us! They even brought

 the grandaughter dogs out beforehand, so was

happy about that.  We love to see them too!

And Susan, Jim's sister was here as well.

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Our Easter Service was just great and a very Joyful

 Celebration! A true Celebrationof Christ's love

 and Resurrection! and the music was Wonderful

as well, and so was dinner and dessert I might add.

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We had an awesome Easter and really I had an

awesome week!  

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I have to say I am worn out today tho from all

of last weeks fun activities!  and am so happy I

have nothing that I have to get done today.

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Joey, and Rosie and I have been having fun

in the sun,  and hanging out on the porch, 

cause they both got to stay and visit with

us for a day or so. They really love to sit

in the sun,  seriously.  They are home alone

while their Mommy and Daddy work so they

don't get to spend much time outdoors, so they

 take full advantage when they are here.

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Joey was looking for lizards and is taking

time to smell the roses.............

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Well daisies anyway!

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Even dogs need to slow down their lizard hunt

to take time to smell the flowers! lol

I love this picture!!

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Miss Rosie loves to swing! as well as sit in the
sun like Joey......So Grammy has been spoiling
 them rotten all day!!

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Wanted to tell you about the Azaleas....

On Sat.  when I was working on Easter dinner,

 thought I heard something, was hoping it was hubby

 doing something since  he was outside, and  I had my

 hands in chicken,  then a few mins. later heard it again

 and realized someone  was lightly knocking on the door, 

 thought it was hubby needing something. It turned out to

 be our little neighbor girls approx 2 &5 yrs. old,  each

with an arm full of Azaleas. The girls  were so adorable

 and said can we come in....their dad was out talking with

 my hubby, so they came in and looked all around and

said you have a bird cage,  but for some reason I thought

 they were meaning bird house, and I said yea, I have quite

 a few and I was showing them,  and they said

do you have birds and I said yes,  and started showing

 them figurine type birds and they said do you have a 

real bird??? and I said No, just fake ones, they seemed

 to like the word fake and seemed to  know what it meant

 cause they would say  look a fake flowers, and a 

fake strawberry!  they were a hilarious!

 They were truly a lovely fun Surprise!!

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Also, I had food every

where in the kitchen and thought what do

I do with the azaleas,  so put them in my sink in

the bathroom for the time being,  then later

transferred them to the vase you see on

my header picture,  they were even more

beautiful once I got them in the vase.

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All those dead hibiscus plants we have

are gonna be replaced with Azaleas for 

sure now!! lol  Cause they look gorgeous

on my porch since we have that same

color of pink, of course, they would look

 gorgeous anywhere, but I love being able to

 look from my kitchen and see them out there

 on the table

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I tell you my house is like a florist shop anytime 

with all my  faux flowers, (that sounds so much
 better than fake)  but this week it is like a florist
 shop with real flowers!

Course, I love love love it,  since I am

the Queen of Flowers!! lol

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Thought since it isn't too far passed Easter

I would show you a few of my Easter 

decorations before I put them away,  just

never got a chance to do it before.

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I love this figurine of Jesus with the lil children,

it is always on my coffee table or mantle every

spring and summer! It was given to me by 

a sweet neighbor/friend who has since moved

away.  She had cancer and  then her husband

 died and she had to move and I have never 

heard from her since.  Am hoping she is okay!

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I had found this large glass chimney at a Hospice 

shop for $2.50, a month or so ago,  and it took me a

 while to figure out what to put under it, and to camaflouge

the hole in the top!

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Decided to go with an Easter Egg theme

for now.

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Pulled the ribbon and bird off an old birdhouse

that I had ,it had a bunch of dried flowers

and it needed a change,  so figured this would

work for the top to cover the hole in the chimney!

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The red and green eggs are almost 40

year old,  we got them when we lived

in Germany all those years ago.  They

make Easter Egg trees over there to

celebrate Easter.  I loved the idea cause

I had never seen it before,  usually they

use forsynthia branches,  course, that

was then, who knows what they do 

now!  Both egg cups were given to me

by an old and dear friend.

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This ballerina bunny was my daughters

when she was little, so I just stuck her

on this lil bench and put her on top of

the fireplace doors.

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I forgot who gave me this bunny,  I am thinking

it was hubby,  but he gave me the one Rosie

is sitting by one the swing,  so not sure about

this one,  but think she is so cute hanging 

on the chair.

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The brown bear used to belong to my son,

and the hat used to belong to my Aunt, she

used to where it when I was a kid,  it used

to have netting that went over her face,

and the purple bunny I think I got from

my friend Diane who also gave me the 

egg cups.

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A few of these eggs are from Germany,

but most of these are some I found here

and they are wooden or styrofoam covered

with flocking I guess you would call it.

The brown bunny my daughter gave me

some years back.

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I got the lil birds earlier in spring and I found

these candle eggs a few months ago at

home goods.  Used 2 on the table as well

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This lil pot came from another old an dear

friend,  it had a plant in it at one time.

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Guess I should have taken a pic of the whole

mantle really but only this side had Easter

stuff,  everything else in the house is just

the usual spring decor,  which I will show

you lil by lil probably over time.

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If you want to see our Easter table be

sure to come back for on Wednesday.

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Hope you are all doing well,  and that

you have a great week ahead.

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Blessings n' Hugs,

Nellie