Happy Easter

It is Spring time people! Daffodils and baby lambs and chocolate eggs :-) Easter weekend is usually a family fillled time for us. This year was no exception.  We started off with our annual egg hunt. This year Granny C &co held the egg hunt on Saturday instead of Easter Sunday. GC , Beebs and I were taking part in a craft fair on Easter Sunday.

This year, K can read. I know!! Crazy right?? So Granny C mixed it up. Instead of just hiding eggs, she hid clues for the kids to follow. We flipped a coin to see who would go first. K won the flip! And she was off!

And true to form, there was not just a chocolate egg at the end of the clues, there was a whole bag of easter goodies.

Next up was Frase. Fraser took one look at his first clue and realised GC had made his hunt super tricky! His face was an absolute picture! It was so funny.

On Easter Sunday , we woke bright and early for some egg rolling. We headed round to Granny Mary's house and she had breakfast waiting for us. Mmmmmm. It was yummy!!

Then we popped out to the steep hill behind her house to roll our eggs.

K had decorated 2 eggs - one with a ladybird and one with a polkadot sweetheart butterfly :-)

Murray coloured his egg like and angry bird

Fraser made his into "Eggzio"

and mine was a polka dot egg.

I'm sure I took a pic! I would have sworn to it!

But I can't find a pic. Boo.

Next year I think we may roll them down the steep road next to this hill. Trying to wade our way through the long grass to find our eggs (that had been wiped clean by the wet grass)  was, um, challenging! lol.

Fraser managed to roll himself.

Twice.

My egg at the bottom, still whole!!

We are still munching our way through a mountain of chocolate eggs!

Although I may need to gift my eggs to Peaty.

K and I are going to be leaving on a jet plane!!

We are off to sunny spain , to see Aunt Sarah and Joe boy!!! :-)

aaaaaaaa! Excited!! 

A weekend of two halves.

When I look back at the beginning of 2012 I shall remember it as the time when I literally did not have enough hours in the day.

Momentum is gathering in my little polkadot world  and it is taking up more and more of my time. I am thoroughly enjoying it all and I love having so many orders to fulfill but I wouldn't be me if I didn't have a little guilt tucked in.
It is starting to eat into our family time a little. This is a difficult concept for me to accept as my family is and always will be my first priority. Every choice I make is based around our home and family life. But craft fairs are run on weekends (of course!) and evenings are the only time I get to sew and craft.
No one seems bothered (except me) and we still have lots of time together.

This past weekend was crammed full of both. Time apart and some amazing famnily times together. Fraser spent the weekend away with his youth group at Teen Ranch. Riding horses, learning archery and making lots of new friends.
K decided to sleep over with Gc and Beebs (and Grandad of course) on Friday noght and I had a craft fair to attend on Saturday.

Here is a collage of pics of my stall. It was so very different to everything else that was there, which was seriously daunting to me when I walked in! I have to admit that I almost walked straight back out as I felt like such a fish out of water. But I took a deep breath, unpacked my wares and smiled! My table was certainly different from the others, but it certainly stood out! It wasn't my best fair for sales, although I did sell enough to cover my table and a little extra . I also  met some lovely people and got some great feedback.

To read a little more about my Polka dot Sweetheart business, please go here.

After K had such a successful sleepover on Friday night, she was anxious to stay again last night. Murray and I were invited by the guys to stay over so we could all spend some time together and K still got to stay. 

It was such good fun. We really feel like we have been a wee holiday.  

Today was like summer. Really warm and clear. So we headed out for a lovely Sunday stroll.

One of our favourite walks takes us along by the rugged East Neuk coastline.

Right by the beach is a huge field where a farmer keeps pigs , or Grumpheys as they are commonly called here.

As it is Spring, we were treated to the sight of some darling little piglets!

They were hilarious!

Tonight we are all back home and back together. Everyone tired, happy and snuggled in to our own beds.

What a wonderful weekend x