School Easter Parties

The kids were super excited about their school Easter parties today and egg hunts! I made it towards the end and got a few pictures of them with their classmates.

Andrew with his awesome teacher, Mrs. Karen

Lillian with her best buddy, Ammu

Another buddy of Lillian's, Makenna

Easter Morning

We had an early, but nice Easter morning today. We were going to Mass at 8 a.m. so we could leave for Shiner after that and spend the day with Brandon's family, so I had to wake up earlier than usual this morning to get myself dressed and ready for church before getting the kids up, fed, and ready as well besides fitting in them looking over their Easter basket goodies and taking pictures, so we were busy!

The kids forgot about the Easter Bunny coming and this morning when they got their poptarts and were headed to the kitchen table, Lillian said, "OHHHH! Andrew, look!" She was very excited and Andrew came running to the table thinking it was all for Lillian until he recognized his basket and they both went through looking and showing me everything. Lillian got the Tangled DVD and 2 Leapster games besides the fillers and Andrew got 2 dvds as well. I think their favorite thing however were some magnifying glasses so they can go look at bugs outside! ha ha!

After I convinced them to finish their breakfast and put down their Easter goodies, I got them dressed and we took a few pictures before church. Too bad we didn't have someone to take one of all of us, but Brandon and I took turns each taking pictures of each other with the kids. Then we were off to Easter Mass. It was packed of course and I think with that many extra people to pass the offering around to and that many people taking communion, it made it a long one! So I was proud of how well the kids lasted with it being an hour and a half unlike the normal hour. It was a nice service and I loved seeing all the kids in their new Easter outfits.

School Easter Party

Lillian had her school Easter party earlier in the day, so I didn't make it to hers, but made it to Andrew's and they had a buffet of some yummy looking stuff! One of the moms made some really cute cupcakes that looked like grass with Easter Eggs on them. Afterwards, I followed them outside on the playground to see them all play and Lillian's class was out there too, so I got to see her too.

Our First Easter Egg Dying

Growing up, we never dyed Easter eggs. We always got those plastic decorated wrappers that when put in boiling water, shrunk onto the eggs. Well, I decided this year that the kids and I would dye eggs since I haven't really done it that I remember. So Brandon boiled them and had them ready and then I mixed the colors and the kids got busy mixing the eggs into the dye. They enjoyed it, but it was stressful for me worrying every second that Andrew would grab one of the bowls of dye and spill it all over the place. He kept grabbing eggs out of the bowls and putting them in his mouth! Yuck! But we all survived and the eggs turned out nice...until they dropped them later on the floor cracking most of them, but still, we did it and had some Easter fun. Maybe with experience it will go a little better next year!

Neighborhood Egg Hunt

I took the kids over to the neighborhood egg hunt this afternoon. They were excited and had a great time picking up eggs and then having a snack and listening to the live music. Poor Andrew has my head cold that I have had for the past 4 days now. He just looked plain tired, but he still enjoyed it. Lillian was all over the place checking it all out and couldn't wait to hug the Easter bunny. Andrew didn't want anything to do with the bunny and kept a watch on him to make sure he stayed his distance! One more week until he visits our house!

Andrew with his eggs

Posing

Lillian with her eggs

Andrew is very into music and loved watching the man singing and playing guitar

Lillian wanted to pose for me today

Lillian as the Easter Bunny