Easter!

We've been doing lots of activities this month to celebrate Easter!  At the beginning of the month we did some Easter crafts.  We painted suncatchers and decorated paper eggs to put around the house.

Notice how the Transformers are never far away...

The kids had a great time going through the Easter bin and putting decorations around the house.  Their favorite is putting spring themed ornaments on the Easter tree.

The weekend before Easter, Grandma S came over and we colored Easter eggs and made sugar cookies!  At first, Alex didn't want to use his hands to handle the eggs, but he quickly got over it.

This year we showed the kids how to use the white crayons to write words or drawings before coloring them!

Alex's Eggs

Aurora's Eggs

We used Megan's cookie dough, which is the best EVER.  Usually Megan rolls it out and does the cookies with the kids.  This year she couldn't make it.  When I went to roll out the dough, Aurora asked me, "Are you sure you know how to do this?"

Yummy cookies!

Finally the big day came!  The Easter bunny filled their baskets with lots of loot!

Aurora's favorite item was this little Ty bunny, named "Carrots"

Alex was all about the chocolate!

Then they raced around the house to find all of the plastic eggs he had hidden!

In the afternoon, we got dressed in our Easter best and headed to Grandma and Grandpa K's house.

Where the kids hid their plastic eggs and even convinced Uncle Joe and Auntie to hunt for them!

It was a fun day!

Happy Easter!

Easter Preparations

Today we went to my parents' house, Grandma and Grandpa S. to have some Easter fun with them since we were planning on spending Easter Day with the other Grandparents. Before we went over we made some cupcakes with chicks and bunnies on them to have for dessert.

At their house, we played outside:

And we colored eggs! They picked out a zoo animal kit and a Star Wars kit. The Star Wars kit came with black dye, which I thought was weird! They dropped the eggs in the dye and then put stickers on them and put them in the little stands. They had a lot of fun!

Here is some of their "zoo."

Alex's favorite egg:

Aurora's favorite egg:

And Grandma and Grandpa gave them chocolate bunnies for Easter!

Chillin' with Grandma afterwards!

What We've Been Up To...

Wondering what we've been up to?  We've been...

Celebrating Dr. Suess' birthday...

Baking giant cookies..

Decorating for Easter...

Catching a movie...

And having dinner outside!