Hoppy Easter everyone!
Let's begin this post with my EPIC Easter mom fail!!!! If you read my post last week, here, I was all set to go for Easter until Friday.... While Logan and I ran out to check a couch out that we were hoping to buy for the lake, I let the littles have my phone to watch a video of Miss. H's performance from the night before. When we returned to the car, Miss. A informed us that they had seen a bunch of Easter pictures and wanted to know what they were!!!! Can you believe my luck?!? Not knowing what to say, we choose to ignore them and their comment. On Saturday I spent the day running around, returning and buying all new stuff so that it looked nothing like the pictures they had seen. Sigh. The things we do for our children and in the name of keeping their innocence just a little bit longer. (oh, and I also lost the Starbucks GC I purchased for my nephew, so lesson learned: don't bother being on top of Easter).
Apart from the little hiccup above we had a fantastic long weekend. What I love most about these holidays is that it encourages us to just be with family and do fun little things. Our list of fun things included:
Coloring eggs with a friend
Coloring more eggs on our own
Having egg wars and eating our year quota of egg salad sandwiches
Visiting two great-grandmas, two sets of grandparents, aunt, uncle, one baby cousin, and one teen cousin via telephone
An hour long Easter Egg Hunt that took us outdoor into fresh snow
Annual pancake and chocolate breakfast
Hours of games including ping pong, darts, air hockey, horse racing
One last snowman of the season
Logan also had an opportunity to go to his first Rush game with my dad, while the girls and I had a girls night with appetizers and a movie called Nine Lives. I also got two runs and one Shred workouts in over the long weekend.
I have the rest of the week off with the kiddos and I am looking forward to getting lots of spring cleaning done around the house and also taking Halie to her final dance competition over the weekend. Hope you all had wonderful weekends with your own families.
See you on Friday, for Fashion Friday's post.
Easter was a whirlwind of family shenanigans. My sister and her family were here from
Victoria, BC for 2.5 days and we packed a lot into that time frame. My nephew Alen, 12 years old, and Halie are
pretty much inseparable, Anya mostly tries to keep up and tag along. We started off by making our yearly, or
almost yearly, Easter egg pancakes which the kids decorate with icing. We then moved on to coloring Easter eggs and
having egg cracking wars. For the last two years Alen has lost the egg war but
finally this year he had a victoriously strong egg. He was so happy!!!!!!
We had a large family dinner, my grandma, aunt, uncle, cousin, my
parents, sister’s family, Maja’s family and us, at my parents’ home. Halie and Alen are obsessed with magic tricks
so we all enjoyed a free magic show performance as well, kind of like a dinner
theater.
Easter Egg HUNT!!! This has
become a tradition. We are usually with
Alen at this time of the year and the kids are always looking forward to
it. Every year I am searching for new
ways or new clues to pull it off. This
year I found these printable clues. I pasted them on larger
foam eggs and hid them all over the house.
The kids love running around in excitement and searching for their
Easter baskets. Anya, though the
youngest of the three, is definitely the one that takes time to think carefully
through the clues and doesn’t give up too quickly. The last clue had the kids stumped for approximately
ten minutes but Anya figured it out and pointed the other two in the right
direction. A little conversation I
overheard:
Alen, “this is impossible” (referring to the last clue). Anya, “Impossible means that we won’t find it but that’s not true, we
will find it.”
Finally, I wore my new pinkalicious top to our casual family dinner. If you want to see more ways to style this top check out my previous post here. Unfortunately I couldn't locate this top at the online R.W. & Co store but you can pick it up at your local store for approximately $50 on sale.
I hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend with your families.
