Lucky Lilacs

With an early Spring comes an early Lucky Lilacs.  When I noticed the lilacs blooming mid-March I could hardly believe it.  Lucky Lilacs isn't usually until Mother's Day!!!  I had planned on inviting some friends to the festivities this year, but since the Lilacs were perfect over Easter it didn't work out.  Instead, we had Lucky Lilacs a week too late for the flowers themselves.  I had to hunt down a few un-brown blooms the weekend after Easter.

Baby S had his first Lucky Lilacs ever.  Since my mom thought she'd have time to send the glasses later, we went without.  Last year I used sunglasses, and felt pretty stupid. I am not sure if I would have felt better with old-fashioned eyeglasses, but maybe we'll try next year.  I did enjoy the pictures Justin got of little S enjoying his first reading.  The first picture is my favorite.  Not only does S look amused, but E looks so happy to be watching Lucky Lilacs begin.  (She had gotten over the fact that we were going youngest to oldest by this point.)

He is definitely gazing in that lilac (above).  What do you think he sees???????

Below I told him to spit on his lilac.  He blew a few bubbles instead.

The kids gather around to hear his clue so they can go find his present for themselves.  I didn't get pictures of the rest of the kids on my lap because Justin wanted to videotape it instead.  But we definitely got a few higgledy piggledy's in there.

This year I had six hiding places to remember.  It's a little pathetic that I almost lost M's right after I hid it.  Apparently I need a little whispering in my ear.  After all the searching, with their prizes:

Playing with Baby S's bubbles:

(Lucky Lilacs is a family holiday started by my Great-Grandpa Rees and continued by my Aunt Becky.  A Lucky Lilac is any Lilac with either less or more than four petals - no cheating !!!!  Once you find one, Aunt Becky looks inside the Lilac.  With a few magic words and a little spit, the hiding place for a prize appears.)