Easter

We had a wonderful Easter. We ended up having it at our house this year because my Uncle Rick had hip surgery last week and my Aunt was not up to hosting it this year. Our weekend celebration started on Friday afternoon with making cookies with Nana after all the kids got out of school. They were very interested in making the sugar cookies that they could decorate and then the only one that wanted to help with the chocolate chip cookies was Elizabeth.

Then on Saturday afternoon Nana and Papa came over and we all decorated Easter eggs. The kids loved this. We had a Winnie the Pooh decorating kit that Elizabeth picked out and then we also got a camouflage kit that the boys liked. Tyler made Elizabeth an Easter egg with blue on top and green on bottom and then put all the different characters from Pooh around the center. He said that it was the Hundred Acre Wood. Alex decided that he did not want to wait for the special egg holder that came with the kit or a spoon and used his fingers to dunk and retrieve the eggs. By the end his fingers were very colorful!!!

On Sunday I expected the kids to be up early, but they were not. Tyler and Alex were up at 5:30 and then Alex went back to sleep. Eric woke up next around 7 and then Elizabeth and Alex officially woke up at 7:45. Mind you we needed to be to church at 9. They then spent the next half hour looking for Easter Baskets while I made breakfast. We ate got ready and barely made it to church in time. Thank goodness for Nana and Papa saving us a couple of seats.

After working through a few wrong turns :) Audra, Steve, Hannah, Nate, Aunt Linda, and Nana all made it. We had a wonderful afternoon with eating and the kids playing. We even had a little concert put on for us. Then the kids had their egg hunt and got even more candy. The adults had their annual egg hunt with scratch tickets in their eggs. There were no big winners this year. The afternoon winded down with the kids flying kites out side and the adults relaxing. It was a wonderful day!!

Now we have to get ready for Elizabeth's 3rd birthday. There is always something going on!!!

The Month of March

Well it is finally time that I catch up on what has been happening in the month of March. The month started with my mom's 60th birthday. As a surprise my sister and her children all flew home from Wisconsin for the weekend. We had 6 surprises for 60 years for her. The first one being that the children made breakfast for her. She really likes an overnight french toast recipe. Then we had her at our house at 8am for breakfast. When she got here we gave her a bag with things that she can use in Jamaica (yes she got her trip for her birthday) and told her that her second surprise was waiting for her. Then Sandra and the kids all came around the corner and really shocked her. She was so excited. Then she went to have a manicure with Ashley, then we girls went to the movies, then we went to dinner at Telly's and the final surprise was shopping on Saturday with the girls all day. We know it is what she loves to do and we had a blast.

The following weekend was our town voting. While my neighbors and I went for a very long and drawn out school voting morning my parents watched the kids and painted the downstairs bathroom and both bathroom ceilings. I wasn't sure about the color at first but it is definitely growing on me.

Then the this past weekend was Easter. I will write more about this in the next entry I have to download all of the pictures first. In between all these weekends the kids have been at school and are doing very well. We have a break right now with sports. We are waiting for baseball and spring soccer to start up in April. Hopefully all of the snow will be melted so that this can happen. Tyler and Eric started an after school enrichment program on Mondays and Thursdays. It is a science club and a literacy club. They are really enjoying it. Hope you enjoyed the update. There will be more soon!!