Easter Morning

Easter morning was fairly uneventful at our house.  I didn't want Easter morning to be about Easter bunnies and eggs and gifts galore.  We got the girls each fishing poles (well a new one for Allie and we washed up Allie's old one for Brailie), new fishing nets, big bouncy balls and some candy eggs(left over from last year when we didn't celebrate Easter at all cause we were in Canada and I totally spaced it).  The easter bunny (mom) was in no mood to bake cookies so he picked up some from the grocery store. 

They were thrilled and happy with very little-bless my sweet children.

Easter Weekend At Grandma's in Monroe

This year for Easter we went to Monroe to Greg's parents house there with his brother Ryan and his family and sister Carrie and her family.  The weekend involved seeing baby lambs, a big Easter egg hunt, a fishing trip and tons of playing with cousins.  The girls had a blast.  I think Allie could have stayed and played for a week longer and probably gone with minimal bathroom breaks, food breaks and sleep. 

A lamb that had just been born (okay so they are not cute until they are at least cleaned off and fluffy is what we learned from this experience).

Looking for the lambs

Easter egg hunt

A full load of candy

Another full load.  She was happy when her basket had 4 eggs in it and thrilled when it had 37

The loot

In Grandpa's footsteps.

The annual Easter Egg Dying

I'm not going to lie-I was not really in the mood for Easter festivities this year and I am also not going to lie-the things I did do I did with only part enthusiasm.  It was a holiday that just crept up on me and though I wanted to do a bunch of cute stuff I didn't feel I had the time, energy or money to do it.  My girls are amazing in the fact that they are thrilled with so little and happy with plain and simple and so I sometimes find myself saying, "why even go to all the work when they really will be happy with...." and that is what I did with Easter this year.  I did feel we should dye eggs though I think egg dying is really an activity for older kids.  I cooked a dozen eggs, bought the kit and put the set up outside.  They each dyed (or rather tossed their 6 eggs) into some and all of the cups of dye, they dried, we threw on a few stickers and done and happy.

When I was little and my mom would boil the eggs for Easter if one happened to explode in the process we were all the more happy because that became the "Alien" egg and it was fun to see how it would look after being dyed.  Allie chose the Alien egg from our batch too.  He looked good in blue

and purple

And green.

See what I mean-thrilled and we didn't even do a fancy thing.

Grandma's Easter Egg Hunt

Grandma set up an Easter Egg hunt for the girls April 16th since they would be gone for Easter.  They were both feeling pretty sick but they really enjoyed looking for the eggs.  This was Brai's first official Easter egg hunt since she was still little last year.  She totally got the hang of it.  Grandma also gave the girls dolls for Easter and they love them.  Thanks Grandma.