Easter and One FO

Still trying to catch up on my blog posts... I feel like I never will. But, bear with me. This one has a lot of pictures. :P  We went to a park a couple weeks ago. Just to walk around. There is a little creek there, and a bridge... It's a nice park. Right in a residential area. (I wouldn't want to live there, though.)

Steve...   Always smiling.  (Is that a smile?)  ;P

We were walking over that bridge, and I didn't even notice there were some ducks on the ground there. Steve pointed them out to me..  A Dad and Mom duck. :P

More ducks and geese in the water..  

Steve and Eon looking at the ducks/water..

Eon kept trying to sneak up on the geese.  Lol.  I'm surprised they didn't try to attack him. But they flew away.  He still acts like a little kid sometimes..  :P

I asked Eon to take our picture..

Did you have a nice Easter?  I wasn't going to do anything, or have anyone over...  (Well, we only know my husbands brother, here. But..)   But. I did...   I bought some candles and candlestick holders, and an Easter Lily.  I also bought a bunch of little bunny and an angel knick knack. That will have to be a different blog post, I still haven't taken pictures of those.  I usually don't decorate for Easter except maybe a flower pot...  But, this year I did.

And we invited my husbands' brother and his wife over.  (Her daughter is staying with them, she came too.)  I made two dozen pickled eggs.  This was the day I made them so they weren't "pickled" yet..  (I also bought this pickled egg jar, too.)

I made two pans of hot cross buns. I have never made them before, they're pretty good.

And a New York Style cheesecake. Which used FIVE sticks of cream cheese!!   I forgot to take pictures of everyone while they were here. But they don't really like getting their pictures taken. So...  I didn't.

These were the boys' "Easter Baskets".  I think I mentioned on here a thing I saw on Pinterest. Well, I did it...   Two baseball caps (Um, not cheap... when you buy Under Armour baseball hats..) with "boy" foods...   I did put a chocolate bunny and a Cadbury egg in each one, though. Beef jerky, cracker jacks, and a Monster energy drink..

After I finished the mitered squares blanket, I wanted to do another one. (Can you believe it?!)  I did.  But, I wanted to try doing the squares bigger this time. I actually started out with a different pattern; but then I had to add one stitch casting on, and just did the original pattern I did with the first blanket. Just more stitches.  I've actually gotten one more square finished on it plus another half done, since I took this picture.

And, I finished something for me.  Since all I do is crochet or knit for the babies, and I do get burned out of it sometimes. I wanted to make something for myself.  I bought the Crochet! magazine I think I posted about a while back. Because I really liked the "Cowboy Cowl" in it.   I used some old "stash" yarn (and I do mean old) I had bought when we lived in Colorado.  That was what, over eight years ago?   But the pattern said #2 yarn.  And besides sock yarn, I had a bunch of this...   But, I wasn't really happy with the cowl.  I don't know. It doesn't lay like it did in the picture. Not very "cowl like".  Maybe once I wash it and actually wear it one time I will like it?   But it seems "tight".  By the time I sew buttons on it might be too tight...  I only had a hair clip keeping it together at the very top in the back, here.