Florida Fun...

This years Easter trip was a spur of the moment kind of trip!

It was just Beckie and Bri and their kids this year. 

Tegan, Kelley, Layla and Danny are coming home this 

summer for 2 weeks so they missed the Florida trip this year.

The trip included:

Time for cousins to bond and play together.

Time for sisters to bond and play together!

Time for Cayden to ride a bike and say

"I am a really big boy now!"

Time for a Mommy and a son to hang out together!

Lots of time for frolicking in the pool!

Time to color easter eggs together!

Time to ride bikes in beautiful Easter bonnets!

Time for lots of picture taking by Meme!

Time for smiles!

Time for walks to the "gator bridge"!

Time to share Easter baskets together!

(It's funny how the Easter Bunny brings  the same things

every year!  Mya enjoyed borrowing Layla's Easter Bunny!!)

It made her very happy!

Happy Easter 

2013

Love those punching balloons!

My Easter Bunnies!

Time for the easter egg hunt!

More time for playing outside together!

We had 8 days of fun...

stay tuned!

The Palette~

Kelley found the perfect night out for us~ 

We went to a place in downtown Grand Junction

called the Palette!

For $35.00 dollars you can paint a picture~ following 

an artist giving instruction and have a glass of Palisade Wine,

which is a winery near by!  You can purchase more wine as well!

And we did!

They have "Date nights" on Saturday nights where

couples can paint one of the pictures you see hanging on

this wall!

The class was sold out...

there were about 35 of us!

The owner/artist stood here and showed us techniques 

to use to paint our very own Van Gogh's The Starry Night~

The Chalk board calendar on the wall shows up coming

classes~ very clever!

Kelley is ready to start!

I love this girl!

She is so fun and is excited to try new things!

(Anything but get on a cruise ship!!)

They tell you which paints you will need but

they really encourage you to be CREATIVE with color!

Our spots were set up with names when we arrived!

We got right to work!

Kelley took some shots of me working...

I was concentrating so hard!!

Kelley did too!

We signed our work~

Mine is on the left~

Kelley's on the right!

The beautiful artists and their work!

I can't wait to do this again!  I did find out there is a studio

similar  in Cleveland and I hope to try it out!

Thanks so much Kelley for the fun night!

I look forward to seeing my art work in my bedroom

in Grand Junction when I visit next!

When Tegan showed Layla our art work we texted him,

 she gave her Mommy a thumbs up!

One for Meme too!