Our Lovely Easter

So, according to Kassi, we had a very boring Spring Break. "Are you ever going to be done with your church work, Mom?" "Can't we do anything fun besides your enrichment stuff?" "Can you please stop and take me to the movie, Mom?" Apparently, I was the worst spring break Mom there was this year. Kassi would have nominated me for an award if there was such a thing! So, come Friday, Enrichment was done and we decided we should do something fun. We went to the day-old bread store and the kids got to pick out what they wanted (sounds weird, I know, but we went with the intention of picking out pies. It didn't end up that way, but they liked it!) After that, we went to the mall to get little sweaters for the girl's Easter dresses and looked at a few things. After that, we went to see "Horton Hears a Who". The kids loved being at the movies with their friends. Nathan said that the movie was pretty cute. I couldn't hear a lot of it, but the animation was adorable. I'm pretty sure she had enough fun on Friday to kind of make up for a few of the other days. The rest of the weekend made up for the rest, and I redeemed myself as a fun mother. Whew! That was a close one!




Easter started with a Primary party on Saturday. The kids got to decorate little Easter sacks and then played a few games. After that, the hunt was on...all 2 minutes of it! The primary kids are fast, man! I got a few action pictures of the kids running around trying to gather enough eggs to reach their quota. The kids had a great time. Trevor had been asking to hunt for eggs ever since they had received their package from Grandma & Grandpa. That was on Thursday. I was so grateful to the primary to have their party on Saturday! The rest of the day was spent cleaning up the house (it had enrichment-itis. For those of you who have never put on an enrichment, you wouldn't know. For those of you that have, you'd be familiar with the volcano/tornado/explosion like mess your house can get to if you work on enrichment non-stop for a few weeks!) I got so busy tiding up that we forgot to color eggs. It's a good thing we have 1:00 church and my kids were still awake at 10:30 p.m.(!) when I decided I better color eggs with them. We had a good time, with probably more giggles than usual due to the late hour. I'm not a bad parent, I'm just making great, silly memories, right?!? (only time will tell!!!)






On Sunday, it was a lovely morning. The kids woke up to another trick from the funny bunny this year! Every year we get the silliest bunny at our house. He knows just what to do with our yarn that we leave out the night before. This year, we even left out our own baskets that the kids picked out from the store. I think he was happy he just had to fill them! Anyway, the bunny takes all 3 skeins of yarn and strings it all over the house. The kids have to follow their color of yarn (they pick it out @ the store) to find their basket. Our bunny has taken us all over the house and around the yard before, but never did the bunny go through the refrigerator like he did this year. Kassi was going to die laughing! After they found their baskets (under the kitchen table) they played with their goodies and decided it was time for the real hunt. They had a great time trying to find their colors that the bunny left for them. I have to say, next year I think we'll do breakfast first, as they devoured their candy from the eggs in pretty record time. They didn't eat much of their teal french toast, pink scrambled eggs and purple juice. Crazy kids. We put on our Little People Easter CD (a great buy, by the way) and danced until it was time to get ready for church. The kids looked so sharp in their Easter get-up. I COULD NOT get them to get a good picture. Sorry to those that live away. The ones that live here got to see them in person, but I don't think the pictures do their look justice. They just looked so spiffy! Look at the first picture - it cracks me up! They were trying really hard to be good - look at the camera and smile - but the sun was just too darn bright! They couldn't even keep their fingers together. It was like their eyes were being electrocuted!




These were the pictures taken after church. Nursery adventures added a cute bunny nose and Primary adventures had apparently forced Trevor to untuck his shirt. Like MiaLisa said about taking pictures of kids - these aren't perfect, "but at least they have character!"



The night moved on with a group of great friends over for an Easter meal. I had a lovely time in my little house, and I hope the others did too. It was a little cozy, but a good cozy. I hope that all of you had a great Easter, too!