Happy Easter!
Wishing you many blessings and I hope that your day is
shared with family and friends.
We hosted our annual egg hunt on Friday evening, and had a
wonderful time. Never able to depend on the weather, we hold the event in my
husband’s shop. I’ve lost count on how many hundreds of eggs I fill with candy,
toys, and change, but it doesn’t take the kids long to find each and every one
of them. So we add to the fun with a scavenger hunt. Special eggs have letters
on them, and once found, they are placed on a sheet of tag board spelling out
each child’s name. Once every one’s name is complete, and all the eggs are
found, each child is given an envelope with a rhyming clue as to where their
next envelope is. Everyone gets five clues, with the final one ‘suggesting’
where they will find their baskets. Old and young love the challenge of this,
and I’m challenged each year coming up with new rhyming clues. 
This year our three-year-old grandson’s basket was hidden
inside the deer feeder, which he loves to fill with Papa every time they visit.
After finding his basket with the help of his mommy and daddy, he came running
up to me and said, “Grandma! Look! The deer left me this basket!”
While the children are collecting eggs, their parents have
their own goodies to find. Hidden high
above all the eggs are bottles of adult
beverages, and our three sons are as competitive as ever to find more than
their brothers. 
We always buy a couple fun games or things for the kids to
keep at our house to play with, and this year that included one of those blow
up costumes. This one is a dinosaur and the kids had a great time playing
dinosaur tag, which they incorporated to include their squirt guns. It
certainly was a fun time, and considering we had twenty-two people at our event
this year, I’m glad I baked two hams!
On the writing side, THANK YOU for purchasing The Cowboy’s Orphan Bride. It’s been on
best selling lists all because of you. I so appreciate your support and I do
hope you enjoyed Garth and Bridgette’s story.
Next up will be the first book in The Mail Order Brides of Oak Grove Series. I had so much fun
collaborating on these stories with Kathryn Albright. Surprise Bride for the Cowboy and Taming the Runaway Bride will be released on June 1st. Winning the Mail Order Bride will be released on September 1st and A Bride and A Baby for Christmas will be
released in October in the Western
Christmas Brides anthology.
Stay happy and keep smiling. Life is good.
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