Sunday, April 18, 2010

Hunting Eggs

Here are the rest of the Easter pictures, finally! We had a great time hunting for eggs over at Aunt Barbara's house.

Here is my niece, Jalynn, hunting for her first egg. Isn't she just so cute.

And of course we took tons of pictures of Guinevere. She is just so cute how could we possibly resist.

I just love how in this picture the eggs in the tree are in focus, and she is not. She saw that lower yellow egg and just took off after it. It is so much fun when they finally get what all the excitement is about.
Joseph

London was hard to get a picture off. All the pictures of her hunting for eggs she has her butt facing the camera, or her hair is covering her face. She absolutely loves the blocks that the Easter Bunny brought her. Her creativity never ceases to amaze me.

Jacob really liked the dinosaurs that he got, and Joseph really liked the dinosaurs that Jacob got. Joseph initially liked the truck he got in his basket until he saw Jacobs dinosaurs. Luckily Jacob like the T-rex the best, and Joseph was ok playing with the stegosaurus.

After the kids found all the eggs the adults had to scour the yard looking for the eggs that got hid a little too well. Once that was done we decided to play a little football. We had a lot of fun, and minimal injuries. I was pretty impressed with the nice bruise my sister gave me on my upper arm (sorry, I forgot to take pictures so that everyone else could be impressed as well). Out of the many action shots that Rob got of us playing football I decided on the one below because it makes me look the skinniest. I am finally shedding some of the weight I gained through four pregnancy's, and I could not be happier.

After football we had a wonderful dinner, and just enjoyed spending time together. I love holidays.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Egg dyeing

On Friday my Mom and Aunt Brenda came over to help us frost Easter cookies and dye eggs. I just love how bright the frosting turned out.

Here is London showing off one of the eggs that her and Aunt Brenda dyed.

Joseph took control of the blue egg dye, and would not let anyone else use it. He has decided that anything that he touches is his and that no one else should touch it. It has been a difficult stage for us since there are so many other children in the house touching all of "his" toys. Luckily the other kids did not care if they could not dye there eggs blue, and we did not have a meltdown.

Jacob decided he would be in a supervisory roll for cookie frosting and egg dyeing. He knew exactly what he wanted and made sure that the adult at his side carried out his wishes. Here he is inspecting the eggs to make sure they are the right color.

I attempted to let Guinevere in on all the fun, but she only wanted to put her hands in the dye, so this was the only egg she assisted with.

Most of the eggs came away unharmed from the egg dyeing process and a fun time was had by all.