Easter Sunday

Mason has had a bad cough for at least a week, so I'm taking him to the clinic at Greg's work today.

Sunday was Easter and it is tradition here for the Easter bunny to hide the baskets.  I intended to get up and take pictures of the kids finding and playing with their baskets, but I was in severe pain.  My hip has been hurting for a few days.  This happened last year.  It just gets out of place and I have to go to the chiropractor to get it fixed. I think it was especially bad on Easter because I was at Walmart late the night before.  It was PACKED and I was waiting in line to purchase my items.  That's when I realized I didn't get any milk and we didn't have any at home. The lady in front of me in line said she would hold my place.  I certainly didn't want to leave the line!  So I ran to the back of the store to get milk and ran back to get back in line.  My hip was already hurting before I did that, so I'm certain that is what caused the severe reaction overnight and during the day Sunday.

Aussie has a hard time finding things.  So his basket was hidden in plain sight.

Ashley reported he still had a hard time finding it. He took his cube to church with him and someone messed it up.  He was so disappointed!

Ashley found hers right away.  It was in the washer.

Mason had a harder time finding his.  He came up and asked for a clue.  I told him to open up things.  It was then found in the dishwasher.

As well as baskets this year I gave a few family presents.

An electronic Monopoly game, Wreck-It Ralph DVD and Monsters Inc. DVD

Every Thanksgiving our church gives bags of groceries to schools and people in need.  They decided to do it for Easter as well this year.  So we brought groceries.  And we also brought flowers to put on a cross set up in the lobby.

Had to get a family shot!

We went with Doris and Gabriel to Far East Buffet for Easter lunch.  It was very YUMMY!

Then Greg, Ashley and I went to see The Hobbit at the $2.00 theater.  Aussie did NOT want to see it and Mason didn't care one way or the other.  So Mason volunteered to stay at home with Aussie and play video games.

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend and we were busy!  Ashley had wanted a friend to come and play all week long over Spring Break and no one was able to come over until Friday.

Friday, my friend Doris, her son Gabriel and Ashley's friend Nora came to play.

They all played quite well together.  It might be because we had some events planned.

 Before Doris and G got here, Ashley and Nora played with their American Girl dolls.

 Then we colored Easter eggs.  The dye that I got this year was horrible!  I got a 2nd kit but it came with very little and you had to paint it on.  Not too easy with several people trying to use it.

Then we had a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt.  Last year's was better and more colorful.  This year I bought tiny glow sticks off the internet.  The ones that were all the same color were the cheapest so I bought those thinking the vibrant plastic eggs would provide the color.  However, they really didn't.  It had been raining all day, so we decided to have the egg hunt in the house.  It was still fun!

As I edited these I made ALL of them into web format.  So there are several of the sameish picture, but I'm not going to take the time to pick which one to put so I'll put them all here.

After the egg hunt the kids got really creative!  They decided to have an awkward dance competition.  I didn't watch the whole thing but from my seat in the kitchen Aussie was the clear winner!  But when I got up to take pictures it appears that Gabriel may have been the winner.  You choose from the pictures below:

Mason was the commentator, DJ and judge.  The girls were out first because they were too graceful!

At the end of the night, Mason declared Aussie the winner.  An argument came about where G thought he should have been the winner.  He thought Aussie's moves weren't original and he thought his moves were the most awkward.  What in the world does a mother do in this situation?  I laughed and stayed out of it.  Seriously, should I say no THIS child here is the CLEAR winner of the AWKWARD competition?

Nora spent the night and when her Mom picked her up the next day Aussie was telling her Mom how they had an awkward dance competition and her daughter did a really good job!

HA!  I then stumbled over my words to make it sound better, "Well she was one of the first out because her moves were too pretty."

But before she left we went to our church's annual Easter egg hunt.  It had

also been moved inside because of the rain.  The kids were separated into groups by their age.  I decided to take a few pictures of  the 4&5th graders first coming around the corner.

And I particularly like this picture of Edie showing Ashley, Mason and Nora something on her Dad's phone.

 I think I'll wait until tomorrow to share Easter day pictures.

St. Patrick's Day

Am I overwhelming you with all these blog entries? I still have at least 2 more to go to be caught up.
 
St. Patrick's Day and my Mom wanted pictures!  I think she called me and emailed me at least twice. Okay, okay I get the hint.  It's a bit difficult to get everyone to color co-ordinate, but I knew it had to be done!

Greg had a super busy weekend.  He actually had to work on Saturday, March 16 and Sunday, March 17 as well as having a show to put on in the evening.  So he didn't go to church with us Sunday morning. By the way, while I'm thinking of it, his play was a HUGE success as usual!  I really enjoyed it!  He put on Amadeus and I was quite impressed!

I snapped pictures of Greg with the kids when he got home.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!