Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Easter 2013

We celebrated Easter at our house and had a great time as always.  Here are the girls' Easter baskets - Paisley has a love for babies these days, so we got her a little baby doll as the main gift.  Emery is all about asking the definition of words (like all day long, might I add), so we got her a little electronic dictionary as her main gift.
 Easter baskets from Grandma Phyllis - they were spoiled with candy and treats, just like grandmothers do.
 Next up, dying eggs.   

 Paisley, sitting on top of the kitchen table.  We have yet to break her of this habit, but she is getting better.  She does now understand that we don't sit ON the table at meal time.  Small progress is still a win, right?
 

 Our hands were a hot mess ...
 Emery starting to freak out when Ivan told her that the dye wouldn't come off and that her hands would be stained like that forever. 
 Paisley didn't quite understand the concept of being gentle with the eggs.  She would hold the egg above the cup of colored water, and just drop it in.  We had quite a few cracked eggs, but it added some character to the eggs :)
 Next up ... hiding and finding Easter eggs.  We got lucky with some great weather and were able to hunt for eggs outside in some beautiful weather.

 Uncle D, Auntie Silvie and Carter got into hunting for eggs too ..



 Another great holiday spent with family.  We couldn't have asked for a better Easter ...

St Patty's Day

Can I just say again, how much I love Pinterest?  It is like the best invention ever in my mind!  It has changed my life and I love it.  OK, maybe I shouldn't admit that it's changed my life, but I really feel like it has.  I can find so many ideas, recipes, cleaning tips, everything in one place and I love it!

Anyway, now that I've gone part time at work, I've got a little more time to actually follow through with the crafty projects with the girls.  For St. Patrick's Day, we made rainbows out of froot loops and cotton balls.  Emery is absolutely obsessed with rainbows, so this was the perfect project for her.  Paisley loves to eat cereal, so it was a good project for her too.  Here are the final projects.  The whole family participated and it was fun and cheap craft.