No one made Deviled Eggs????

 

 Bunny Ears...

Jelly Beans...

Pretty Dresses...

and Family

 

That pretty much sums up Easter for me.

Oh, yeah and add watching lots of college basketball.   

We spent Easter with the family in Ohio

Lots of cousin time.

Silliness and laughter running wild. 

They played dress up in grandma's old dresses.

 

 

 On Saturday we ate, drank and were merry.

We had two Easter parties one at Nate's moms and one at my mom's.

The girls helped Grandma Pam with making homemade pizza rolls and homemade ice cream.

The weather was nice enough that we were outside as much as possible.

 Lil Miss was much more engaged in the Easter egg hunt this year. 

She caught on quickly and picked up 12 eggs her first try.

Jack and Lil Miss got a head start before we let loose the big kids to gobble up all the leftover eggs. 

{Megan and Lil Miss} 

 Grandma Pam always gets the kids new swimsuits every Easter and Lil Miss was working her new Hello Kitty one piece.  It went well with her Easter tights.

{traffic jam on the basketball court}

Josh asked me to draw a racecar track so I obliged complete with bridges over a river, gas station, and mystery boxes with turtle shells and mushrooms from Mario Kart. 

 Josh was Mario and Gigi was Luigi.

We left one Grandma's stuffed and full of sugar and headed to the other Grandma's.

Oh wait did I tell you I spiral curled Rosie's hair that morning. 

It turned out pretty cute.  I plan on doing this again for First Communion.

At Grandma Judy's we had more eggs to hunt.   

 {The Egg Hunters} 

{The boys}

 {The Big Girls} 

Sunday morning we woke up and the Easter Bunny had found us!!

I love Bubba's John Deere Easter Basket.  

Daddy got the traditional white chocolate Easter Bunny and mommy got a bag of starburst jelly beans.  Yeah, Right!  The kids have already eaten half of the bag. 

That is probably better that way.  LOL 

{The family all dressed up} 

 {Us girls in our Sunday best!}

After church we ate lunch really quick and headed back to Iowa. 

I only now realized that no one made deviled eggs!!! 

My favorite Easter delicacy and not one grandma made them.

So disappointed. 

I will just have to attempt to make them myself.  Going to have to call my mom for her secret to making them the best. 

Mmmm... deviled eggs

Must be Supper time.

 

Spring Break 2013

We're Home.

As much as I'm excited to sleep once more in my own bed, getting home from

a trip means lots of work for mommy.

There is a mountain of laundry, tons of stuff emptied from the van into my dining room, and no groceries in the refrigerator.   First things first, blog it.

Priorities.

 

The kids and I had a great time on our Spring Break.

Next year, I insist that daddy go with us. 

Two years in a row finding things to do for a week without him is too long.

We headed to Tennessee to Grandma Judy's house for most of our Spring Break.

I had planned on a lot of indoor activities in case the weather didn't cooperate. 

I am glad I did.  It snowed the first three days. 

 Even with clouds and snow the views are AMAZING!!  

We did lots of creative stuff like coloring, water colors, and crafting.  

Of course a week before Easter we just HAD to dye our Easter eggs.

This year I did the kool aid method. 

I am only going to do it this way from now on.

So easy.  

 My sister Kathy had invited a friend of hers with kids to join us down in Tennessee and her

children really kept my kids from being bored.

Only a couple times did I have to whip something out of my bag of tricks to get over

the "I'm Boreditis". 

I had leftover yarn from a baby shower so one morning we made a yarn obstacle course.

We called it Spy's in Training.  The object of the game was to

get all the way across the room without touching any of the yarn.

Easier said than done.   



 They crawled and hopped, and shimmied their way from one side of the room to the other trying

to get through. It was tough though.  I had the kids each take turns stringing the yarn around chairs and the railing to really make it tough.

 

 Bubba tried his best spy moves. 

Lil Miss didn't understand the object of the game was to NOT touch the yarn.

She just pushed it out of her way. 

 

 When the obstacle course got boring we played some games.

Mommy tried her best at checkers but I am no match for this guy.

 Rosie kept busy doing all the girl's hair. 

She was in heaven. 

There was definitely some relaxing going on -- reading and putting our feet up in the recliner.

The last day in Tennessee we had the nicest weather so we decided to do the scavenger hunt I had made up for the trip.  We spent the morning making our binoculars out of toilet paper rolls for the hunt.   

{going on a bear hunt} 

Seriously isn't this the cutest! 

All of us starting out on our adventure!  

We looked for pinecones, flowers, things that were round, litter, and much more. 

Bubba found some daffodils in bloom. 

Our scavenger hunt may have gotten us a little dirty. 

I am not sure Lil Miss's yellow pants will ever be the same.  

While the babies were napping we tried to get in a few board games everyday with the older kids and

taught them to play hearts.  I forgot how much I love to play board games!! 

My competitive nature comes out.

  

It was a fun, relaxing, and adventurous 5 days in the hills of Tennessee. 

We didn't get out the swimsuits and flip flops but had fun anyways.

 

Okay -- enough putting off of the laundry.... now I have to get to work.