{"id":940,"date":"2018-04-11T06:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steele.farm\/?p=940"},"modified":"2018-04-11T06:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T11:22:43","slug":"happy-easter-or-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steele.farm\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/happy-easter-or-merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter . . . or Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Easter!!<\/span> <\/em><\/h2>\n

Well, it seemed more like Merry Christmas this year.\u00a0 Listening to the weather forecast the day before created some talk of cancelling the Steele Family Easter. Dennis and Carol were the hosts and Chad had already let them know that he and his family would not be making the trip down due to the weather. Carol, Nancy and I texted back and forth and ended up deciding to go with a \u2018wait and see\u2019 attitude.\u00a0 Nate, Cori, Lucas and Maxwell had come down early and were staying with Bubba and Mason, but Nate and Cori were up during the night with Maxwell, he had a cold and wasn\u2019t sleeping well. They had talked about just heading home rather than coming to the Party Barn.<\/p>\n

Well, come\u00a0Sunday<\/span>\u00a0morning we went to\u00a06:00 am<\/span>\u00a0Mass at the Cathedral and we hardly saw a snowflake in Lincoln.\u00a0 But as we headed home after Mass, there was snow starting on the outskirts of town.\u00a0 By the time we got to Hickman is was snowing a little harder.\u00a0 By mid-morning we had two or three inches and it was still snowing.<\/p>\n

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If nothing else, the Steele\u2019s are an adventurous group and most of them made the drive.\u00a0 Aaron, Kalie and the girls came down early to help us and Dennis and Carol.\u00a0 Carol had her other knee replaced back in February and is still doing Physical Therapy. Dennis had to go back on chemo for his leukemia and the first few weeks were pretty hard for him.<\/p>\n

Kalie asked me to take some family Easter pictures of them, so I thought I would share one of them.<\/p>\n

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This year I thought I would make a raisin pie for Ken for Easter. Since I was using the old white pie tin that AM used to use I was feeling very confident that with her help, this pie might come out pretty well.\u00a0 I was so confident in fact, that I decided to use one of the pie birds from my collection.\u00a0 I picked the penguin and as Aaron said with the snowy weather that was much more appropriate than if I had used a rabbit. If I do say so myself, it came out very well. Thanks AM!<\/p>\n

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Gabi and the girls came down early so they were able to make it.\u00a0 And Nate and Cori decided to come after all.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately there was no Easter Egg Hunt.\u00a0 Carol just passed out the Easter baskets.<\/p>\n

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We leave the baby walker in the Party Barn for anyone to use. Emma has always considered the walker to be her\u2019s but Paityn did get to spend some time in it.\u00a0 Paityn\u2019s good at pushing herself backwards.<\/p>\n

When she was done, Emma crawled in it and of course Aaron thought he would make it more exciting for her.<\/p>\n