Easter Weekend, 2009

Easter, 2009

Addie is now 1 year and 8 1/3 months old. Since Doug and Shari moved to Ponca City late last year (taking Addie as "hostage") I have to look for excuses to make the 4 1/2 hour trek to northern Oklahoma to see them. Easter this year is the latest of these excuses for which I was able to take advantage. Addie has not grown in height or weight much lately, but her speech and motor skills are improving so fast, a month between visits brings so many changes that my mind is "boggled".

Arriving in Ponca, late morning on Saturday, I find the weather will be fair and warm for the rest of the day but Easter Sunday will be solid rain. With this in mind, I head for my "outlaw's" (a.k.a. former inlaw's) house, Bruce and Raylene LeRoy. Shari, Doug and Addie join us for the afternoon. With a Sunday Easter egg hunt ruled out by weather, Addie's first 'hunt will be for plastic eggs that grandpa has filled with Dove (tm) chocolates this afternoon.

A great time was had by all during my visit and here are the best of the (processed) pictures taken Saturday afternoon:

Addie finds the first "plastic egg" and, after studious inspection, help in opening from grandpa and consumption of the enclosed chocolate surprise, grandpa brings the camera out. All of us play and laugh for an hour or so, passing the camera around. The following are the best of the pictures taken. Captions below each are from my imagination after reviewing the picture.