Spring Fling with Mammy

- Girls in pretty spring dresses -
- a fancy table and fresh flowers -
- delectable new food to try -
- a special message from a caring grandmother -
- an egg hunt -
- prizes - pictures - and time with cousins -

This is how we spent our afternoon today as my mom hosted her sixth annual "Spring Fling" for her granddaughters who are at least 3.

The first was in 2004 - when our babies were still babies.

Here are our 2004 spring flingers - Lilli, Marin, Katie, Lexi, Madi, and Sophie.
Lacey, who was still 2, was not old enough to be a spring flinger that year.

Fast forward 5 years - and here are the 2009 Spring Fling attendees -the Zobrist girls were in Utah for Spring Break so we missed them this year :(

Mammy with (back row) Lilli, Katie, Madi, Lexi, (front row) Vivi, Ava, and Lacey

Our lovely table - with a very delicious menu of Chinese chicken salad, rolls, veggies and dip, and cherry fluff fruit salad. A couple of the dishes were unfamiliar to the girls so they had a chance to try something new. The granddaughters all know it's a special occasion when they have the opportunity to sit at Mammy's dining room table, and they were all very lady-like, polite, and neat as they ate their lunch.



When my mom has a captivated audience of granddaughters, she doesn't like to miss an opportunity to impart some words of wisdom - to share a gospel message - to help them along their path of life. At her Spring Fling this year, she had a discussion and shared some ideas about modesty - not simply modesty in dress - but also modesty in behavior, attitude, language, and thought. The girls listened to my mom, and in this picture, my mom is listening, quite intently, to a comment from one of her granddaughters. My mom gave each of the girls a gift along with a special box to keep things in with Proverbs 31:10 "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies." written on the inside of the lid.



An egg hunt is always part of the Spring Fling tradition. This year, Janae was the official egg hider, and claims that she would like to relinquish this title in the future. I believe this is the case because the girls kept asking Janae to help them find the eggs - leaving her to wonder the purpose behind actually hiding eggs and not just giving them to the girls. In this picture, each girl counts her eggs so we can discover how many more eggs are still hiding in the house. Believe it or not, it really was quite complicated!


Some years, my mom asks me to come be the Spring Fling (very novice) photographer. She likes me to take individual photos of each of the girls, and for the most part, the girls seem to enjoy being models. (I guess she didn't ask me to do this last year, because I was looking through my photos and have nothing from 2008), but we have a batch of new photos from some fresh-faced beauties for 2009 -

Vivien, age 5

Lexi and Madi, ages 12 &13

Lacey & Ava, age 7

Katie & Lilli, age 10

Ben & Nicolette did not attend Spring Fling because one, Nicolette is NOT yet three, and two, because Ben is NOT a granddaughter. Based on the fun they had together, I think they created a spring fling of their own.




Thank you mom and mammy for doing this for your grandchildren. They will always remember days like today!