Decorating the Easter Eggs

We died the eggs the Wednesday night before Easter, but we didnt put the stickers on until Easter night. Better late than never ;) Haven and Justus did a good job and really enjoyed it!

Behind the scenes

We truly had a great Easter weekend. But here are some things that were going on along side everything traditional that I thought were funny or just wanted to help me remember for next year:

- at the Easter Egg hunt, Haven would not wear her matching sweater (that cost more than her dress) even tho it was totally freezing cold. She wanted her dress to show.

- when I bought her dress I intended for it to be her Easter dress but I didnt realize at the time that the Hunt would be the day before. Also, I made her hair bows as we were walking out the door. The totally cute head band I bought to match the dress wasnt going to work with her bending down and hunting.

- Night before Easter - when all thru the house not a creature was stirring not even... me. I was at my friends house watching the Twilight series via totally cool movie room. Both movies back to back blue ray version and dinner and dessert also. I didnt get home til after midnight. Needless to say Easter baskets were not done quite the way I wouldve liked.

- When I was getting ready to leave for said movie night Neil inquired as to what was going to be in the kids Easter baskets. When I replied Chocolate, he thought they really needed some toys. So about 3:30 afternoon before Easter I was at Target trying desperately to find cool toys in the totally picked over Easter toy dept. Ugh! Will remember for next year!!

-Did not take any pictures of my kids in their Easter day clothes. Well, Justus wore basically the same thing as the hunt, but Haven (thanks to my gammet of fancy dresses from my sis) wore something different.

- I had (got) to work with the kids on Easter Sunday so I didnt even wear a dress to church.

Easter Egg Hunt

We had a great time today hunting eggs. Well, really, it was more of a gather. There wasnt really any hunting involved. But Haven and Justus sure had a good time.

Then after the hunting it was bounce house time. Haven isnt really to into bounce houses so she hung out with Dad and ate some of her candy. Justus on the other hand was all over it. He was especially excited cause the bounce house had a monster truck on it. So cool!!

Then he got to pet the bunny. So cute!!

Getting ready for Easter and hail storm

The kids have been so excited for Easter. Theyve been doing Easter egg hunts in the house, playing with the colored egg sets (still need to actually color the eggs) and talking about all things chocolate bunny and jelly beans! Here are some pics of them playing with the coloring sets.

Then, just for a few brief moments, it decided to hail quite a bit at our house. The kids thought it was fun and they especially liked eating the hail.

Vamp Week

Last week I was lost in a different world. This world used words like coven, phase & immortal. Yes, I was sucked into the world of vampires via the Twilight Series.

I never thought Id be the one. I resisted and didnt think twice about it. When the movies came out I had no desire to see a movie about vampires. I get scared pretty easily and they held no interest.

However, my hubs came home last fri or sat night and said he had rented New Moon. I knew it was part of the series but failed to remember it was the second one. We were half way through before I realized and Neil had to confirm it. I was so confused! So that meant I had to watch the first one. I searched all around and found a friend who loaned it to me the next day - My obsession had started! After that I knew I had to read the books. Oh I was consumed!!

I went and bought book one Mon morning. By Tues I was going back for book two. I read a book a day - which is saying a lot since the books are between 500-700 pages each. Then once I was finally finished Friday afternoon at 3:57, I went the next day to my hair lady who told me about the unfinished 5th book on the internet. So by Sun I had the 5th book read too. Crazy, I know. Needless to say, not much got done around my house.

Im still shaking the aftershocks of such intensity. Im really trying hard to rid my mind of all things vampire. Wow - I havnt been this consumed since I read Lord of the Rings and even then Im not sure it invaded my mind as much.

So that is a recap of my Vamp week.

Inquisitive minds want to know

Justus has been asking about colors lately. What does red and blue make? What does green and yellow make? and so on. Of course some of his combinations make nothing to great, but I thought it was time for him to see for himself. So we got out the food coloring and let him play. Haven also got in on it (I just didnt get any pics of her).

Crazy, but not unexpected

Today I took J in for his 4 year old annual checkup. Of course he didnt want to go cause the allergist appt was still on his mind. He kept asking if he was going to get poked. Poor kid. Hes been through so much when it comes to drs. But he was a champ when it came time. No shots or poking. Just looking.

And the doctor told me he was taller than most 5 year olds.

Crazy, but not unexpected.