easter

Here's a few pictures of the eggs we decorated

(I know, I know. Super bad picture taking skills. I opened the curtains to let in sunlight while we were decorating and didn't think to close them for pictures, or at least position myself differently. Someday I'm going to pay better attention to the pictures I take.)

 I did find lots of new fun ways to decorate the eggs and the boys loved it. Tie Dye. Sprinkling crayon shavings. Using rubber bands to keep white stripes.

I didn't get many of them actually searching for eggs but I did get this one of Trey doing exactly what I thought he'd do. He found about 6 eggs and then promptly sat down to eat the candy, not caring that there were more eggs to find. 

For some annoying reason I can't get my pictures to turn anymore. I blame the photo program on our new laptop. But I had to include one of Brock. 

My handsome boys in their Easter best

 Can you tell he had a mouth full of Easter candy? I didn't until now. (I would've made him spit it out. :)

I can't believe this big group of boys is my family! On Saturday we went out to run a few errands and I could not believe how big of a family we are. I seriously felt like we looked like a zoo. :) 

Good thing they're all so good looking.

Don't you just love the matching ties I found for them? I do!!

Wood You Like to Craft - Candlestick Rabbits

First of all let me say I SO wish this post was announcing the birth of our new baby. But alas, here it is only one day from my due date and still no baby. It really doesn't seem fair that I still have to go all the way to my due date (or later! GRR!) with my 5th baby. I guess since this is my last pregnancy, I should just enjoy it, right? Yeah right! I've been 'enjoying' it for 9 months now. This is ridiculous!!

Last month (although it seems like yesterday) I made the "No Soliciting" sign for the craft group "Wood You Like to Craft?". I don't think I did a very good job explaining it all, so here's a little about it from their site -

"Wood you like to Craft? is a bloggers craft group.  We have gathered four fun blogs that have a love for wood crafts.  Each month we will be creating one project selected by the "host."  Then each of the other bloggers will take a turn showing their variation of the same craft."

I love it because as much as I dream about being able to sew, it's still so intimidating to me, and wood, paint, and tools are tons of fun to work with and there's so many ways to change things up a little. Plus it actually motivates me to make things. I have a list a mile long of all the crafts I'd like to make someday, but this forces me to get it done. And I love that!!

This post shows the fabulous original plus the variations all the others made. You really should take a quick peak. It's amazing what they all did!

Here's what I came up with. It was a lot cuter in my mind but I'm still pretty proud of it. ;)

Easter Bunny with Eggs

Didn't realize when I was making them that my piano would now be covered in candlesticks... I think I have some rearranging/new decorations to come up with.

Maybe one day I'll learn how to take good pictures. You know with the right lighting, angles, etc. Until then. Oh well. 

eggs, two ways

We crammed all our Easter fun into one morning

Decorating Easter Eggs





I didn't take any pictures during the painting, but here are the boys showing off their new Easter toys, along with all the cookies we had just painted

Happy Happy Easter

Decorating Eggs
Nothing really exciting to talk about here. Just pictures of us decorating eggs. Fun Easter times.




Yes, I realize Cole looks psycho in this picture, but I actually think I don' t look half bad and of course Peyt is super cute in it.


Searching for Eggs
We didn't go to any public Easter Egg Hunts this year. (Last year, I swore I would never try that again. Sorry, but watching a mom hold her 8 month old baby and grab a basket full of eggs while my little Cole ends up with one, is NOT my idea of fun! So as soon as my boys have cousins (hint, hint) I will start an annual family egg hunt, but until then it will just be us.) Peyton grasped the concept real fast and even found some when the older two thought there were no more. They of course had a lot of fun and so did we, watching them get excited and shout to each other every time they found one.






We painted Easter egg cookies for preschool. I've been doing this for a couple years with my boys, but this year decided to save it for preschool. It is such a fun thing to do and I must say I was very impressed with Easton's eggs! He really did them all by himself. He does say he wants to be an artist when he grows up (along with a chef and scientist :).