Easter in All its Glory!

Adelle loves the Easter Bunny. We believe that Christ was resurrected and we celebrate it on Easter, but Adelle will never let you forget about the Easter Bunny and the Easter egg hunt. She is often the first one up peeking around corners to find eggs. Lydia and Adelle can be especially competitive, and at times you will hear bickering about who saw which egg first. Lydia is maturing though and kept chiding Adelle for taking the "easy" eggs that Violet could reach. In the end all of the eggs are opened and put in our family candy jar anyway, but there must be something glorious to the rattling, plastic eggs filling your very own Easter basket. Grandma Julie gave the girls beautiful and wonderfully colorful outfits again this year. I being the less than stellar daughter still haven't managed to snap a picture of all the girls in their glorious outfits. I did manage to catch this action shot of Adelle in her fashionable garb though. Granted her hair is still pretty slick in this picture.

Violet wandered around in her pajamas finding eggs. We had to keep an eye on her because she liked to pop open the eggs, which would then leak jelly beans everywhere. She has a unique talent for being able to stuff her mouth with oodles of food in a very short amount of time. The poor girl got quite upset that we wouldn't let her enjoy her sugary, colorful morsels.

Lydia was mortified that I was taking pictures of her in her pajamas. The mammoth egg she is carrying is actually from her super Aunt Erica. You can read more about her amazing Easter hunt for the girls here http://jollyrogerlove.blogspot.com/.

The Easter bunny brought peeps for each of the girls, personalized marshmallow eggs, sidewalk chalk for Adelle, an Easter themed rubber duck for Violet, and body wash for Lydia. In their Easter egg hunt the eggs were filled with jelly beans and a few were filled with money. Ahh the smell of sugar. It was a fun day. Later we enjoyed ham, veggies, and I made for the first time....cheesy funeral potatoes. In fact, I will be entering them in the Oates Funeral Potato cook off this Sunday. Wish me luck!

Eggcelent!

The Saturday before Easter the girls and I sat down together to dye eggs. We put down our Christmas tablecloth, got out our dyes, vinegar, boiled the eggs and had some fun!

Don't you just love the trick of coloring the eggs with crayon before dying them. We each enjoyed making our own little patterns and spring scenes.

Lyda recently asked for an early birthday present of a perm. I didn't realize how much it would set us back, but she looks beautiful! If you can believe it she will be turning 12 in June.

Adelle was quite sad when she dented the shell on this egg, but got the great idea to make it into a rocket ship. When she peeled it open there were all sorts of fun patterns on the actual egg.

She has such enthusiasm. Thank heavens the girls and I adore hard boiled eggs. Even Violet is a huge fan. If only they lasted longer in our house!

Musical Friends

Lydia enjoys listening to music on her I-Pod every so often, especially on weekends when we are doing chores. Lydia introduced Violet to her musical world and she was quite fascinated. She wants to listen as much as possible when Lydia has it on and follows her all around. It is pretty funny!