Howdy,
We enjoyed a good day in Mariposa today.
Went up Friday afternoon to hang out with Epa and Grandma, and to sneak in an early Easter Egg Hunt.
A bonus was that Uncle Nick and cousins (yeah, the Crazy ones — the pairing of Crazy Cousins, of which it takes our boys to complete …) Lizzy and Ben were able to come up the hill and join for the day at my parents. (Sorry to those who were sick and had to miss this time. Enjoy the pictures and videos, and get well soon.)
Our boys were pumped to be visiting grandparents and pumped to have visitors!
Jasper chauffeuring young cousin, Benjamin
Beautiful spring weather and a perfect setting for an egg hunt in the wilds of the ‘Posa wilderness landscape, sculpted by the mower and its rider, Epa (and Ryan and Jake this time, I hear. Good job, guys!)
Ben and Riah vacuumed up the Level 1 eggs on the lawn, and then Lizzy, Jasper, and Titus took over for the big kids’ Mariposa Mountain eggs (Levels 2, 3 & 4). Lizzy, Jasper, and Ti had a total of 59 eggs to spy out, shake out, stick out of the grass, brushes, and trees.
They did a great job. On the first official group sit-down and all-around total basket count, they’d gathered 58 of the 59 eggs. I little looking and we started to wonder … would we ever find it? Miscount to start? Who knows: how would you know? But Nick caught a glimpse of the last to be harvested before too long, and the kids gravitated over and then found the 59th and final one.
Happy Boy — Riah with new light-up-bunny-ball from Grammie
Quite the warmup for tomorrow’s rounds of basket-filling!
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Hunting.
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