Before & After

Before Church...

...After Church...
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Easter Festivites, Part 3

Last year, we had the Easter Bunny come on Saturday. We wrote the Easter Bunny, and told asked him if it would be ok to come a day early, and he was nice enough to grand our request!

I really liked that a lot, that way all the chaos of eggs, candy, etc. was over, and on Easter Sunday, we can focus on the true reason for celebrating Easter.

This year, I couldn't pull it off, with sick people at our house, I just couldn't get my act together in time. And that was ok, but I am going to make it on Saturday from now on.

I am never very good about getting pictures of the actual "hunt" part, because they are running around so fast, but I love to get their pictures taken in their Easter outfits. (I was so thankful that we didn't have any boulders and dirt piles in our yard, like we did last year!)

Also, Sunday is the one day a week that Ashley looks like a girl, granted it is only for 3 hours, but hey, I will take it!

I was even brave enough this year to be IN some of the pictures! (Thanks to our neighbor, who happened to be driving by as we were taking pictures.)

Easter Festivities, Part 2.5

Saturday afternoon, Ashley & I had some girl time. We are different in a lot of ways, but my girl LOVES to get pedicures with me!

I always have hopes of pink toes, with a cute little flower on Ash, but who am I kidding!

She told me "Mom...green IS a spring color!"

Easter Festivites, Part 2

So, for Spring Break, I signed Ashely & Nick up for a 2 day camp at Rockreation. They loved it, and I LOVED that it was 4 hours of them rock climbing! Needless to say, they were EXHAUSTED each night.

In the meantime, my little tiny person decided to get sick. He wasn't feeling 100% on Thursday, and then that night woke up with croup...Fun Spring Break for him!

Saturday was our annual Easter Egg Hunt in our neighborhood. It is so much fun, but DANG it was cold this year. We were grateful that it was not raining during the hunt!

The kids had a blast, and of course, it only took them about 5 min. to find the eggs!
Jon-Jon was very particular about what he picked up. He ended up with 2 eggs, and a pack of gum! Nick was nice and put some of his eggs in Jon's basket.

Easter Festivites, Part 1

As Easter approaches, our kids are always so excited to color their eggs. We did the traditional egg dye, and then we also had some paints.

The painting started out very controlled, fun designs, stripes, faces, etc. Then Ashley started going a little crazy. She would put the paint on, and then roll it around in her hands. They looked a little bit like marble, they were pretty cool.

Jon of course, loved to color them, and then use stickers to decorate some of his.

One of the favorite things to do is use a white crayon, and create a design, and then put it in the dye, and see how your design turned out. Nick made a unicycle, and of course a "U" on one of his. Troy even got into it, and designed a funny face for Jon, and one egg with all 3 of the kids names on it.

Then we started to notice some eggs with a subtle messages on them.

Our kids started putting things like "Mom is the best", and "Dad rules" on their eggs.
That's right...they are trying to butter us up...I wonder what they want from us...

Birthday Bike

I have wanted a beach cruiser for a while. However, someone in my house, who shall remain nameless, thinks they are dumb! Not to mention that I just got a pink road bike. I told this person, that I LOVE my road bike, and can't wait to ride it, but I can't really go for a bike ride with the kids on my road bike. Soooo....I need a beach cruiser too!

I was told about this website (thank you Shawna!) that has beach cruisers for around $100, and they are soooo cute! Now I am just trying to deside what color I want...I am thinking vanilla...

So, you know how when you were little, and you would ask your Mom & Dad for a new bike for your Birthday?

I guess I am going to have to ask MY Mom for a bike!