Easter 2014

Hi Everyone! Happy Monday!

A little Easter cuteness for you...we had a great day, starting with "Bunny Eggs," which looked super perfect on Pintrest, of course...mine are more the "made with love" variety, which is what my husband says every time I bake a pie, because it tastes good but is not the prettiest thing in the world...

After breakfast the kids and their dad and I went to a little short hiking trail in the foothills, at the end of which is a duck pond. I keep hoping to see baby ducks, but not yet. Beautiful morning for a walk, though, and there were police cars in the parking lot when we got back (nothing bad going on, they were just making sure all the mountain bikers were behaving themselves) and one of the policeman let the kids look inside and turned on his flashing lights for them, which was a big thrill.

We did Easter baskets after nap, so their grandma, who wanted to do an early church service, could be part of it. My husband and I had lots of fun putting baskets together this year. There is only one toy between the baskets as we got two (a car carrier and a tractor), but the car carrier got hidden in the house somewhere and nobody could find it. We figured it would turn up eventually (and it did, this morning.)

The kids and I and their grandma dyed eggs on Friday, the kids did great with that, and we hid them (the eggs) around the house during naps, as well. Luke was really too busy playing with his new tractor to be bothered with eggs, but Zo had the best time...

And then, outside for bunny ear pictures...

...and confetti eggs, which I had never heard of before New Mexico but they are real eggs brightly painted with some sort of special coating that sounds like glass when they break and they have rainbow confetti inside...Daddy helped the kids throw all their confetti eggs at Mommy, and they shreiked with delight as they broke...so fun...why don't they have confetti eggs everywhere? Can't wait to do that again.

And then a lovely ham-and-sweet-potato-mash-and-pea dinner that my husband kindly made (yum!) and then a piece of chocolate from their baskets for each of the kids. Zo chose a little peice (and we actually ended up giving her two), Luke went straight for his big chocolate bunny and worked his way through it in record time.

Hope you all enjoyed your holiday as much as we did!!

XOXO