Eggs, Eggs, and more Eggs (including some lost ones)

Ah, the great cousin egg hunt!

I hid the girls' eggs, while Eric hid the boys' eggs.

Which really only works if the hider remembers where HE hid the eggs to begin with (ahem Eric), yup he lost another one of Aidan's eggs because he had so much fun being tricky.

 It was good and lost too, until we started pulling out the folding chairs to set up for dinner-and the missing egg fell out from in the middle of all of the chairs.

Still, quite impressive that only one egg was "forgotten" out of all of those eggs for all of those kids (not just ours). The kids had fun playing with their cousins, and they ended their festivities with new swimsuits, towels, and water guns from Nana and Papa-which of course let to a HUGE water fight.  As it should.

  

What's in Your Basket?

So excited to see what surprises are coming!!

Does the Easter Bunny bring YOU rockets? No, well that's why we don't use the EB, Eric and I have far too much fun filling those baskets ourselves :)

Sure going corn-free made filling the eggs a little more interesting, no jelly beans this year (I'm still sad about that one).

But we did have plenty of chocolate, and a bunch of fun, weird little toys.

I tried a few new things this year: everyone got their own color egg. Which worked well, no guessing as to who's egg was who's, or having to check for a name first.

All in all, we had a fun egg hunt at home. We did make things a bit trickier for Aidan, Eric hid the last egg, and it took the boy a good 10 min (w/hints) to find the last one!

Eggs in the Park

The Friday before Easter a friend of ours organized a egg hunt in the park for anyone interested-just bring a dozen eggs/kid. So we put off going to the zoo for a chance to spend some time with friends on a lovely day. A good choice indeed.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same...

My dear friend Emily, from HS, and her family were in town for their spring break, and they came to see us as part of their trip! I haven'd seen Emily since Aidan was six weeks old, just before we moved to NY (and Eric had never met her).

They spent Sunday evening/dinner with us, and then invited Maddie and I to join them at the Zoo on Monday. It was lots of fun catching up with a great friend, and so much fun to see how much we haven't changed (even though we have).

Thanks Emily and George-it meant so much to see you all!

Scout Auction

The scouts in our ward hold an auction and dinner to help raise funds for camp each year.  They ask for help with donations from the members and scouts. Since we knew we'd be paying for Aidan (and he's been saving up) for camp, I tried to figure out what we could donate to the auction.

Then I came up with these, a baby quilt and two doll quilts-all made out of scrap fabric from my stash (I did have to buy white thread and batting, so I spent about $5-10). But they helped raise some money for camp, and let me practice some of my skills, so I was a happy camper.

Aidan also had to run one of the activity booths at the dinner/auction-we were assigned the panning for gold booth. I came up with lemon Jolly Ranchers buried in pine bedding (animal bedding) and the kids had to use aluminum pie pans to scoop them out. Super popular-not bad for less than $20!

All in all the auction raised enough to cover half of every scout's camp fees-and since this was for all three units (scouts, varsity, and venture), this was none too shabby-our ward rocks in it's generosity :)

Pinewood Derby

After last year, Davin decided that he wanted a fast car that looked cool. So he and Eric worked hard to make a fast car that looked cool, and they did pretty well.

Davin only lost two of his 12 races, and he came in second as many times as he came in first.

He didn't take third place over-all like he wanted to, but he made some huge improvements over last year. Something he should be very proud of. Besides, no one comes up with a car name like Davin does-this year's was:  the Mordor Maurader. (last year's was Davin's All-Terrain Vinegaroon Jeep-a vinegaroon is a whip-tailed scorpion just in case you didn't know)

Spring Break 2013

Friday: We started our break off with a trip to the library to stock up on books and to feed the ducks.

Monday: We just hung out at home, slept in, watched tv, did some laundry. A pretty good day.

Tuesday: We headed to the Zoo (it was the 12th).

Wednesday: We found out we needed to fax over some more paperwork in the never ending re-fi, so we headed over to play at the park next to Nana and Papa's house.

Thursday: We met up with cousins at the park by our house. It was also Pi day, so we celebrated by having Pizza Pi(e) for dinner-Aidan's suggestion. We also finally signed the re-fi papers that night-hallelujah!!! (It took 7.5 months, no joke, a nightmare that wasn't our fault)

Friday: we headed to the Science Center (along with A LOT of other people).

The kids all had fun building things...

And it was bubble day-good clean fun!

I showed Aidan how to use his hands as a bubble wand.

March 12 in 12-Spring Break Edition

Relaxing with a good book before breakfast, the girls are loving the no-rush of the morning.

Puff-oven pancakes and fresh syrup-now this is how we do spring break!

The kids' choice for today-the ZOO!

It doesn't matter how many other animals we see, it's always super exciting to find either a squirrel or a bunny.

After the zoo the boys played some wii, 

while the girls watched a movie (Harry Potter), 

and I got some quilting done on this quilt. 

It's not Spring Break without Legos or books-or both at the same time.

Princess dress-up in mommy's bathroom-love the mirrors!

Yup, it's been a busy day-and I've got no energy left to make them clean up a mess that their just going to make again tomorrow.

Ah, a nice quiet way to end to my day.