It is tradition, every year on the Saturday before Easter we go up to Albion to the Easter Egg Hunt. We love it because it is pretty low key, not a ton of other people and they stuff their eggs with good stuff, like Snickers, Twix, and Milky Way candy bars oh... and MONEY!! Each of my kids got between $1.50 and $2.00!! Hence the grocery bag, we're not fooling around with tiny Eater baskets here. ;)
The kids are divided up into age groups 0-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-11, The only age group that parents can help is 0-2, so Joslyn had to do it on her own this year...WAAAA! Oh, and wait one minute where's the 12 yr olds? That means that this is Braiden's last year to hunt (legally) WAAAAAAA! I think he can do it one more year...if he wants to. I have one too old for the Easter Egg Hunt...man I am getting old!
Here we are checking out our loot, when the lady announced that the only bunny that was found was the 0-2 age group, so Hudson ran back out there to his section and guess what?!?! He found the bunny!!!
Here he is picking out his basket!!
The winners!
After all that excitement we went to Grandma's house to color Easter eggs:
And play with the stuff from Hudson's prize basket. It was such a fun day and the weather was so so so nice! We all ended up with rosy cheeks by the end of the day.
Easter Sunday after church we went to my mom's for dinner, Here's the kids in their Sunday best:
Ready for the egg hunt:
Scott LOVES doing this every year!
What a Cutie!!! She is showing off her Princess gardening tools and gloves!
Hudson has been begging for Nate to take off his training wheels and now....HE CAN RIDE!!!!
It only took him about 10 minutes figure it out!! WOW!! He has been riding that little balance bike for two years so he really had the hang of it he just had to learn how to pedal and balance! His brothers were both in 1st grade before they rode a two-wheeler and Hudson is only in preschool, I am impressed!!
Books: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly If you know me I am ALWAYS reading a book I love reading, unfortunately there hasn't been too much good lately I've been striking out major! I read The Garden Plot By: Kristen McKendry, the story itself wasn't all that bad it was just the author that annoyed the crap out of me, I am so naughty, anyway she quoted a hymn every other page. UGH! If I want to read the hymns I will get out the hymn book, sorry!
Then bad got worse, I will just tell you that I am not a book quitter, I hardly ever quit reading a book especially one that I just paid $9.99 for in the Kindle Store. :/ grrr! Beautiful Ruins By: Jess Walter, it was the Costco book pick and I had read another good review on it so I decided to try it out, well the "s" word turned into the "f" word and it was a little filthy. If that wasn't enough it was SO random, I can handle a book that jumps from one time and place to another time and place but in between those times and places were these random chapters that left you wondering what it had to do with anything. So I quit about 1/4 of the way through :/ Take it from me, save your money, and time. skip this one!!
I have been elbow deep in spring cleaning, here's part of the list:
I am just taking it day by day, if I don't have a ton of time that day I choose a smaller job if I have a lot of time I try to tackle the bigger jobs. I will just say, I hate cleaning blinds, it is by far my most dreaded household chore. It is when blind cleaning time comes that I think of hiring a cleaning lady. :)
Bathroom light fixtures are today's job :) Nate is plugging away at his list too, look:
SO LONG 90% dead pine trees...
Hello 100% alive trees! SO much better!
We also have plans to build a garden shed for the mowers and all the lawn tools etc. I am so excited!!!
Sorry that was a LONG post! Thanks for sticking with me!
2 comments:
So fun to see how your Easter went! I had to laugh when you mentioned that Braiden wasn't all that excited about the hunt. Every year growing up we went to my grandparent's house for the hunt. As all of the grandkids got older they did a little kids hunt and a big kids hunt. For the big kids they would send my dad and his brothers to hide the eggs for the teens and they put them up in trees, the rain gutter, etc. Our incentive to stick with it was that there were $10 and $20 bills in a couple of the eggs! Fun times :) Glad you had a great Easter--we miss you guys!
Love it when you post! Your family is adorable!
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