Easter Sunday

To family and friends both far and near....

This morning the kids were up early to see if their baskets were gone from the table.  Yes, the hunt was on!

All three did find their baskets with goodies inside.  Even though there wasn't a pony left in the barn or under a tree (Chey was convinced that was what the Easter Bunny was going to bring???), a puppy, or a new bike, they were perfectly happy to find chocolate, bubble gum, and duct tape.  Yeup, I did say duct tape.  Not just the ordinary gray colored tape.  They now make multicolored, patterned, and printed styles.  It's a new fad with the middle schoolers.  They get pretty creative making things from hats, purses, wallets, and just about anything the mind can think of.

Besides today being special because it is Easter, it is also Uncle Bill's birthday!

We are thinking of you and want to wish you a very

Happy Birthday, Bill!

Love you!

Your baby brother Jack,

Lori,

Hannah,

Cheyenne,

and Jack-jack 

   

 

Centerpiece Saturday

This year Easter is at my Mom and Dad's house.  I decided we would make the centerpieces.  The kids worked hard at decorating cookies.  We stuck them in a flower pot and made cookie bouquets.

I thought they turned out pretty darn cute.

Night time comes and it's officially Easter Eve.  Everybody excited to set their baskets out for the Easter Bunny to leave some goodies in.  Cheyenne makes sure to leave a few carrots for a snack.  Cheyenne and Jack-jack each wrote the Easter Bunny a note.  Jack-jack's note letting the bunny know he would like a little toy for in his basket. Cheyenne mentions (again) that, "a horse would be great" and that "the carrots are organic".  I don't know where these kids ever got the idea that the Easter Bunny is a second Santa Clause, but I never really heard of toys and horses in an Easter basket???  I mean chocolate was what we always looked for--after we found out baskets of course!  I don't know......we'll just have to wait and see.

 

Friday Fun

Jack took a vacation day from work and decided to come with us to Discovery World.  We had a nice day just being out and about.

 

 

Favorite parts of the day: 

Hannah's - the virtual solar system experience
Cheynne's - the virtual solar system experience
Jack-jack's - touching the crab and stingrays
Jack's (hubby) - the aquarium
Lori's - having fun and enjoying the days adventure with the fam

Cashing In

The little guy works pretty hard at crushing cans he finds and of those given to him by others.  He uses a can crusher for the majority of the work, but he and his dad do like to get creative.

Crushing the cans using the bucket of the skid loader.

 

Definitely fun to try once.

Today is the day we loaded up the truck to take the cans to the recycling center.

This little guy is so proud of all of his work.

He has quite the load!

 

 

Talk about a smile from ear to ear!

94 pounds of cans = $75.00 + a t-shirt, a bumper sticker, pencils, and bunch of recycling tattoos.

Jack-jack did pay his sisters for the few times they helped him crush cans.

They agreed that a $5 cut each would be fair.

The rest is his.

Very excited to have (that much!!!) money of his own to put in his wallet.

"Thank you to everyone who helped me!"

-Jack-jack-

Another Day Inside

Today was another day we spent inside.  The kids were all excited because I let them play wii (which usually is only a weekend thing in this house).

Tonight they are looking forward to their sleep over by Pam and Al's. 

Spring Break.........Really?!?

With snow on the ground, it tends to look more like our Winter Break we had back in December.

Needless to say, our day was spent indoors.

We baked the first batch of our cut outs to put in the freezer until we decorate them on Saturday.  We have quite the project planned!  Can't tell you what it is just yet because it's a surprise!

And since the oven was warm we also made some yummy chocolate chip cookies, too.

My helpers. 

Some of them aren't happy unless they get messy.

Coloring Eggs

Today is the kids' first official day of Spring Break.  Activity of choice for the day; coloring eggs.  Always a big hit.

The finished product.

The kids were disappointed because the colors never turn out as bright as they do when you use white eggs to color.  Call me a mean mom, but I refuse to buy eggs when we have plenty of our own.  The solution they came up with for that problem; get some white chickens!  So I guess that is what we will have to do when we put in our order this year for baby chicks.