Easter Morning

Once again, we are very blessed to be able to celebrate the holidays together as a family. Easter morning started off bright and early when the girls woke up a little before 7 am. Allison was very excited to discover whether the Easter Bunny had come during the night. We headed downstairs to discover that eggs had indeed been hidden around the house. After finding the eggs (all but one which we luckily discovered later that afternoon), the girls were excited to sort through their Easter baskets.

We then headed to church for their early service, which allowed us to have some down time (and a nap for the kids) before Brian's family came over for a late lunch. By the end of the day, everyone was tired, but yet happy and stuffed with treats.



Easter Fun

Every year my cousin hosts an Easter party for all the kids. Allison was so excited for the party this year. She was ready to leave the house by 9 am, even though the party didn't start until 2 pm.  We tried to keep the girls distracted by running errands that morning, but Allison wanted nothing to do with that - all she wanted to do was to get in the car and head to the party.  Once we arrived at the party, the girls soon discovered the goodness of Peeps.

My cousin organized an egg hunt for the kids. Two of the eggs had a $5 bill in it.  Allison found one of the money eggs and was so proud of herself.  Even Mia was excited for her.  They had a blast finding the eggs and receiving a bunch of goodies.  After the egg hunt, they colored their Easter eggs.  

A moment of craftiness....A split moment

I'm rather bad about doing craft projects with the kids; however, I try not to feel too guilty about it since they do projects at daycare (and we pay enough for those projects).  A couple of weeks ago the girls' daycare was closed for staff training so I took the day off. I figured I should do something fun with them, so I decided to do a craft project. We had a ton of broken crayons so I thought that we could make new crayons out of them.  I sat down with the kids and explained exactly what we were doing. Allison and Amelia were very excited and amazed we were doing a craft project. Mia kept asking "why are we doing a craft project Mom? "  

The first step was to take the wrappers off the broken crayons. I figured this would be the easiest part since at one point in time, we had to take the crayons away from Amelia because she kept taking the papers off.  Thirty minutes later, the kids were off playing and I was still trying to take those darn wrappers off. When I finally got them all off, the girls came back to help me put the cut pieces of crayons into the muffin pans and patiently waited as they melted. They were very excited to show their Dad their new creations that night.

We also made homemade pretzels that afternoon or rather, homemade weapons made from dough, as they seemed to weigh about 20 lbs each. Next time, I need to use less dough and roll them out thinner. Oh well, like I said, I don't do too many craft projects.