sometimes i feel like we just don't have enough time to do many easter-y things. probably becuase it almost always falls in tax season....and even if it doesn't, it's shortly after. so between or normal crazy daily lives, i'm working 6 days/week and sunday is my only full day off. i don't mind it, but usually by easter, i'm just ready for it to be april 15th! plus i don't decorate the house, so it's hard to get in the mood sometimes. anywho, back to easter....i generally don't get to take the girls to any "outside" egg hunts because they are usually held on saturdays leading up to easter sunday, and i work until 3. (except for last year when we got to go to the megga hunt in lasalle....totally could have done without that experience, but that's another story! lol!) so we always color eggs that the easter bunny hides on easter morning. i personally love this part! so here are some pics of the girls coloring eggs at our house!
this year we didn't do the traditional "dipping" of eggs....we painted them with brushes and used a cool egg spinner mechanism! it was pretty fun i think! something different anyway!
here are the girls and some of their eggs that they spun! it gave the eggs a cool tye-died look!
our second attempt....too much fun!!
of course then we went to tina's to help color eggs for their house! the girls got a chance there to dip the eggs! and of course tina and maria always have fun extras to do....crayons, wraps, paint pens.....so the girls love that too!! i think every year they enjoy it more and more!
this year i got the cool idea (from my boss) to have the girls plant jelly beans and see what happened!
so what happens you ask....
.....why the bloom into suckers of course!!!
so finally "easter eve" was upon us.....so of course before bed we had to leave out carrots for the easter bunny......well naturally i look in the fridge and what do i find.....no carrots!! oops!! (of course i blame this on working too much and baby brain! what else could it be?! haha!) luckily we did have some food that the girls thought the easter bunny would like.....spinach, tomatoes and a cheesestick!
and he must have liked it cuz there wasn't a morsel left in the morning! there was however, a nice note to the girls, thanking them for the delicious snack!
time to hunt for eggs!!
the easter bunny left the girls baskets full of goodies of course! these goodies included some cool rainbow sunglasses!!
clearly they were loved by ALL the kids in the house!! lol!
sometimes i have to beg the girls to let me take some nice pics of them…..not today!!
they started posing without me even asking! maybe they’ve finally figured out that it’s easier to just do it, cuz they know i’m gonna ask em anyway! here are some of my favorites from our easter mini-photo shoot! obviously the lighting could have been better, but hey, i'll take what i can get!
someone (grama?? papa??) thought the cooler would be good to use as a seat at the kids table....and it probably would have been.....if the lid was closed! lol!
charlie clearly didn't mind falling in! haha!
even payton had to try the "seat" out!!
finally it was time for the big easter egg hunt with the cousins!! yay!!!
but first.....a group picture of course!!
our first attempt....too much sun!
our second attempt....too much fun!!
i would say easter was a success yet again! all the kids had fun hunting for eggs! and the adults had fun watching them! of course there was an abundance of delicious food too! and the most important thing....family!!!
.....and just to think.....next year there will be 2 more little rugrats to enjoy!!
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