Easter 2014

The kids were excited to wake up and see what the Easter bunny brought.

I always stick new swimwear, and pool toys in their baskets.

It's a practical gift, and stuff I would end up buying eventually.

After they checked out their baskets, they were ready to hunt eggs.

I'm kind of boring and only hid 9 eggs each for the kids in the house. They were going to get to do a big egg hunt later at lolly's, so I wasn't going to go all out and do a big one in the back yard. (I think it's funny Olivia's hunting eggs in Santa pjs. They still fit, so we wear 'em.)

I made us some Orange rolls for breakfast before we headed out. My mom lives a couple streets over from Ryan's parents, so we did a quick stop to see her on our way to lunch.

This sweet boy was enjoying his first Easter. My mom made a big brunch for her, my brother, sister, and step-dad.

Paw paw with his sweet gkids. It's pretty impossible to get three young kids to all look at the camera and smile.

This is the story of my life, Olivia and I smiling at the camera, Ryan, and Carson being stubborn.

We had a huge lunch at Lolly's then let the kids do some more Easter egg hunting.

Olivia knew to look for the eggs with polka dots on them, those were all hers to find.

Carson was hunting the baseball eggs, and Pearson hunted the shiny eggs. It made things so much easier.

Lolly also had just some plain eggs, and candy laying out that was up for grabs.

So sweet.

Opening gifts from Lolly, & pops. She also gave the kids some swimwear, and fun little activity books.

We had another great Easter at Lolly & pops. It's so nice to live so close to our families.

 

Easter egg dyeing

Saturday night I let the kids dye, and decorate Easter eggs.

Dyeing Easter eggs was something I grew up doing with my family. It's fun to get to do it with my kids. This year has probably been the most fun. Carson was older and was able to actually do a lot of it on his own.

Olivia loves stickers, so her favorite part was putting stickers on her pink eggs.

He was really concentrating. I think next year I'll do the dyeing of the eggs the night before then let him decorate the next day. He wasn't quite patient enough to let the eggs sit in the dye, then wait for them to dry to decorate.

Happy Easter

Carson's Easter bucket. I wanted to get him a cozy coupe car, but as the weather got warmer and I was putting him in shorts I realized he didn't have any clothes that fit. Only a couple of short sleeve shirts and maybe 2 pairs of shorts. Instead of using the money on the car I went and bought him clothes he needed that led to his basket not being full of many goodies. He is still too young to really understand all this Easter egg hunt and basket stuff anyway.