Easter Fun

It is Easter weekend! Which meant we got to visit a lot of family and look for a lot of Easter Eggs!

The kids got some giant crackers that they got to open before dinner

Nick did all of his Easter egg hunting with his crutches. Which gave him lots of flexibility in small spaces.

With the difference in ages and abilities we have been hiding 4 eggs in each place. This means that the super-fast girls don't collect all of the eggs before the boys get a chance.

Afterwards everyone went through their eggs.

The next day we went to Grandma and Papa Bartley's house. Nick walked the whole way there!

And on Sunday morning we had lots of time for relaxing and looking at the what the Easter Bunny brought

Umm. When did he get so tall!

It was a fun Easter, with lots of family and lots of smiles!

Believe in the Bunny

As an adult it is sometimes hard to stop and appreciate the things around you.

But the holidays pauses everything.

And lets you take a moment to look through your children's eyes.

And to make things as fun as you can.

With 3 different egg hunts!

It didn't matter that they were chocolate, if they had something in them or not.

It was the excitement of finding something!

 So the Easter Bunny had to step up her game for Easter Sunday morning.

Putting things high, and low.

The was a surprise for the kids when they woke up

So that the first thing we heard in the morning was the excitement of discovery!

 And our morning started with some more exploration, and only a small amount of chocolate.

Of course it did give us an excuse to do some physio and reaching exercises.

We had a house full of laughter and excitement!

We should hide stuff around the house every morning!

After the hunt the kids luckily had some downtime with brand new mermaid and pirate chairs
And some books to read

And we had lots of smiles

 Hoppy Easter! From our family to yours!

The Egg Hunters

We have a family filled Easter planned for this year. Katheryn and Nickolas are both a good age to enjoy it!
Friday was spent with Kyle's family.

We started with some good ole-fashioned egg decorating!

Both kids concentrated so hard in putting the right stickers on, and Nick wanted to make sure that there was no egg left behind

And then it was eating time

There was lots of fun for the day. Like decorating some cookies (while mommy hid eggs around the backyard).

I can't tell if Nick looks younger or older in this picture?
It took us forever to get Nick smiling - he loves to squint and smile at the same time, or hold his smile up!

The the Hunting began!

The girls (at least Katheryn) tore through the area, taking all the eggs in her path. Like an egg-tornado!
I was behind her saying, no Katheryn, leave the easy ones for the boys! Go farther back!

I eventually came to my senses and realized that it was important for both kids to have fun, and not just help Nickolas to find eggs. And Nick had help to find the super-low, and the super-high eggs that tornado-Katheryn missed.

All kids got to fill their basket with eggs, and have fun!

And we had a group of very happy hunters!

 I even got them to both look at me and smile at the same time!
(Notice Nick's squinty-eye smile)

And then it was heading inside with the bounty!

Easter Eggstravaganza

The excitement was overwhelming!

It was another dinner with family!

Everyone was so excited!

What is a family gathering without a bit of matching clothes?

We had Good Friday dinner at the Ridding house.
The family all together, yummy ham, a tea party and some egg painting.
(Notice Kyle is wearing purple too! We ALL matched - no pictures of the 4 of us though).

Sunday morning our Easter started with an Easter Egg hunt.

Katheryn was very interested in egg hunting this year.
She was the master egg hunter!
And then after she found alot of the 60 eggs I had hidden, she wanted to go again.

They settled for eating more chocolate instead.
Nick was very excited that this egg looked like Max!

Each kid had a basket full of eggs (or 'eggth' as per Nick).
Eggs are one of the Nickolas' favorite things in the morning, and to look for them and then find chocolate ("chockla") inside! Wow this holiday is great!

Katheryn thought that the chocolate was OK, but stickers were what she wanted!

The rest of the day we stayed home and enjoyed the chocolate high and the post chocolate low.
But with our super busy weekend, we took what we got and stayed home.

The kids actually got into alot of stuff.
Nickolas had the oppurtunity to get into more trouble than he usually can, but that will come with my next blog post!