Easter

I thought I was so efficient. The kids were visiting their dad and wouldn't be back until Sunday. I thought I would just hide the eggs Saturday afternoon. Then they would be all done and I would be able to get a run in before picking them up. Silly me. I hadn't counted on the squirrels. I woke up to find chewed plastic eggs strewn all over the yard. "I found a chewed egg in my driveway," my neighbor shared. Yeah. Me too. Only I found about 20. Who knew squirrels had such a love of chocolates? Off I went at 9:30 on Easter morning to the Rite Aid to find more eggs and chocolates. I wanted to tell the cashier, " I was not this unprepared! I was ruined by squirrels." But let's be real, he didn't really care. This time I hid them just minutes before going to pick them up.

"You guys are going to want to head right out and hunt eggs when you get home," I told them, "The squirrels got some of the ones the Easter Bunny left."

"I found lots Mom, I don't think the squirrels got hardly any."

Ha! If they only knew.

Easter Eggs

On Friday we completed our annual decorating of the Easter eggs. I swear they get more elaborate every year. Ultimately they would like to decorate twice as many, but I draw the line at a dozen. I mean there are only so many boiled eggs one can eat.

The finished product.

Easter Eggs

The girls worked on dying Easter eggs today. It is sign of how old they are getting that the process took MUCH longer than it use to. They are both more interested in creating unique designs than just whipping through dunking them in colors.

Like Alexa's face egg? Not sure if she is going to want to eat that one

Chloe's duckling.

Alexa working on her butterfly.

Easter Eggs

OK, so sure it is a little early for Easter. The thing is when Easter comes around the girls and I will have just returned from a trip to Arizona. I figured that given our travel adventure that week we really won't be decorating eggs. I decided to do it early this year rather than miss the whole thing. We started out with 18 hard boiled eggs.

There were a lot of colors to choose from.

They made them really colorful.

Then there were the extra details to add.

Now we just have to munch our way through 18 hard boiled eggs this week.

The Holiday Continues

It would seem as though someone can't get enough of Easter around here. Alexa arrived home and decided it was time to dig out the dress up stuff and transform herself. She choose...

the Easter Bunny.

It can be a little tiresome if you happen to be the kid slaving away with math homework and your sister is, well...

kinda right under foot.

Don't feel too bad for Chloe though. Gripe and complain her way through the homework she does, but no one said you had to decorate your answers making your numbers into birds and such.

I mean really. You could just answer them and then you get out to flying your plane sooner.

And take the little bunny too.

Easter

Chloe woke me up at around 6AM. I was so soundly asleep I had to peer over at my alarm clock just to get a sense of exactly what time it was. As she is fond of telling anyone Easter is "My second favorite holiday." She wanted to hit the ground running. The bunny seemed not to disappoint.

He even left two tote bags for egg collecting outside and a note indicating they each had 15 eggs to find. They got right down to business.

I took a lovely photo of the sunrise lest any of you silly people missed it by, oh I don't know, sleeping.

Cabbie was even left a stuffed chicken which he took to right away.

Some of the basket highlights were foam airplanes... those were great to launch. Especially helpful if you have nice neighbors who don't mind you wandering in to their yard to fetch your stuff back when it goes zooming over the fence.

Chloe was a big fan of the kite the bunny left (one for each of them). It really wasn't kite flying weather (no wind) but nobody could convince her. She just ran up and down the yard towing it.

They were very excited to find stuffed penguins in their baskets.

And of course they were both fond of the yummy chocolate bunny. I was only moderately disturbed by Alexa eating the ears of her bunny and yelling, "Help not my ears."

We had a beautiful sunny 70 degree day. In years past they have had to wear snowsuits to collect the eggs. I hope you all had a wonderful day and got out to enjoy the sunshine.