Happy Easter

Easter is just around the corner!

Traditions

Our cute little city sponsors an Easter Egg hunt for the kids every year at the park near our home. This year was a bit iffy on timing for us, as Nicole had a dance practice at 9AM for her upcoming "Little Mermaid" show, Jared had a soccer game at 10AM at a school a few blocks from the park, and at 10:40AM, a mere 20 minutes before the Egg hunt, Ellie didn't quite make it to the bathroom and drenched herself. (That had to have been the fastest bath and clothes change in history!)

But despite the timing issues, and threats of rain, we made it just in time to join the mayhem fun! The kids always end up separated into different groups by age, so I only got pictures of Ellie "hunting" her eggs. But after hearing the descriptions of how Nicole and Jared take off at a full run to get their booty, I don't think I'd be all that successful at getting a picture of them! They came home, and consumed their sugar treasure instead of lunch, and now want to go to Wendy's and Little Caesar's to redeem the coupons they found in some of their eggs! Isn't Easter great?! :)

(I'm not quite sure what is up with Jared's expression....it sort of reminds me of Gollum, clutching "his precious".)

Coloring the Easter Eggs

I Believe.....

Spring Cleaning - Day 3

Hmmm.....if I can even call it a whole day of cleaning....or even half a day. I realized yesterday that Easter is looming, and I didn't want to be in the mad scramble for basket stuff on Saturday, so I got some of it done yesterday. Of course, Ellie saw all of it, and being that she is old enough to remember, I don't think she is ever going to believe in the Easter bunny! Oops! That's okay, because I honestly don't like perpetuating the lie of imaginary people and creatures coming in the house when we are asleep. The other two littles have started asking anyway....and I just avoid giving them an answer. (That was a nice tangeant!)

Anyway, as for cleaning, I finished the master bedroom, and an working on the bathroom. Basically all that is left to do in there is clear out the magazine rack of Golf Digest that my husband doesn't look at anymore and then give it a good cleaning. Then I'll be into the kids bathroom. I have decided this is going to work much better for me if I set small goals. My kids are not the types that will let me get an entire days worth of work done. They can't leave me alone that long! Not to mention, the rest of my house would be destroyed if they were left to their own devices for that long. :)

Easter fun...

I wish Nicole's eyes were open for this one....since it's the only one Ellie smiled in and doesn't look like she was being strangled in to keep her there!

How boring....just pictures of Sunday. I took pictures of the easter egg hunt at the park...but I wasn't impressed with the outcome, so I'm not sharing. :) The kids were just happy about the candy, and didn't care about posing anyway! Taking Sunday pictures are always fun. As parents, we have to get the cute shots of the new easter clothes, but the kids could care less, and are so hopped up on chocolate and sugar that I could hardly get a good shot, since the kids are a blur in real life! Jared would literally run a lap around the front yard between every picture attempt. Riley isn't present in the pictures. She was acting very 14 that morning, and wouldn't uncross her arms and only scowl for the pictures. In trying to get her to stop and give a smile, Jared and or Ellie would take off running, so I gave up! I'm going to take the kids in their outfits to the tulip festival in about three weeks and hopefully get some good shots, when I have Ron's help in corralling them! Riley too, whether she likes it or not! And a big shout-out thank you to Crazymama for the bow inspiration and tutorial!