~Our Weekend~

~There's No Place Like Home~

THE VIEW FROM OUR CAMPER - REND LAKE, IL.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!! We have had a very relaxing Easter Sunday!! We got back from our camping trip around 10:30 this morning, so after getting things put away we pretty much hung out and didn't do much of anything. We had a GREAT trip though!! VERY relaxing and it felt good to do some "family bonding" over the past 4 days.

For those of you that either have already gone thru the teenage stage or are currently going thru it, I am sure you all know how far and few between those days are where everybody is together spending some ever so needed family quality time!! Especially, where everybody is getting along. And let me just say that is exactly what this family did!!

We fished, we played games and even sat by the campfire talking and laughing!! Exactly what the doctor ordered!! Heck, we even did a little antique shopping in this cute little down nearby, Benton, IL. It looked like something out of a storybook. The town "square" is all centered around the county courthouse. And all around the "square" are these quant little antique shops. I wish I had pictures but I had forgotten the camera at the campground.

However, we did have a little "adventure" early Thursday morning. About 1:30 AM we were awaken from a dead sleep by the camper feeling like it was being lifted off the ground. A thunderstorm had blown in and any other time we probably wouldn't even of been the wiser, except for the fact that being the inexperienced campers that we are (we have only owned our camper for a month or so) we forgot to put down the awning to our camper and the strong winds literally ripped the awning off of our camper. Talk about being scared!!

I felt like Dorothy in the Wizard Of Oz...there's no place like home, there's no place like home!! Needless, to say I didn't go back to sleep until the sun was coming up and I knew we were safe. But even though I feared for our lives Thursday morning...LOL!!...I wouldn't of changed a thing!!

Happy Easter...And See You All Next Week!!

Just wanted to wish you all an early Happy Easter!! Kids are on Spring Break and we are going camping!! See you all next week...and hopefully I'll have some "after" pics of some of my projects!!

A Little "Easter" Eye Candy (Hee Hee!! Get it? Easter.Candy...Thank You, Thank You Very Much!!)

Aren't these the cutest!?!?! I know, I know...you are probably thinking I am CRAZY. Easter? It isn't even Valentine's Day yet and this CRAZY woman is talking about Easter. But "Big Daddy" and I had a few errands to run yesterday before "Date Night" so I had asked him to stop at Old Time Pottery (Oh yeah...we also went to Marshall's) so I could look at the Valentine's Day decorations. And believe it or not, there wasn't one speck of it in the store. (Or at least not where I saw) but there was quite a few really cute things for Easter.

So, what is a woman supposed to do? Pass up cute Easter decor just because it is still -10 degrees outside and we still have months before the Easter bunny comes. HECK NO!! She puts them in her cart and shoots her hubby the "don't say a word" look whenever he looks at her like she has lost her mind!! LOL!!

~Easter Tree ~Old Time Pottery ~$4.99
~Easter Egg Ribbon ~Old Time Pottery ~$.69 cents
~Little Wooden Bunny (holding the carrot) ~Old Time Pottery ~$1.99
~Floppy-Eared Bunny ~Marshall's ~$5.99