Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Easter Fun 2017

Is anyone else still recovering from being the Easter bunny? No, just me?!? Ok so we've had a very late night visit from the bunny followed by another visit from the Tooth Fairy (more on that later) this week. I need another break from spring. Haha! 

This year we continued our tradition of getting together with our friends for a pizza night and egg hunt. The kids really love this. 
So this our eggs filled and a carrot veggie plate, we were ready to head to the park!

Haha! Rian hunting in her swim suit!!!


His bag full of eggs!






Rian drew a My Little Pony with her egg chalk. By the way, Rian traded some of her jelly beans for an egg chalk with her friend Brooklyn. She's not a fan of the jelly bean!

Chasing bubbles


Saturday night we finally dyed eggs. I could not find the dye kits, so we used food coloring using a recipe I found on Real Simple.






Rian made monsters with her eggs.

And when one of Rory's eggs falls and ends up with a dent, you throw a band-aid on it! He thought this was so cool.

And when your "purple" eggs actually turn out brown, you turn one of them into a poop emoji. Haha!

So the kids left the empty eggs out for the Easter Bunny to fill and hide for them.

And the Easter Bunny left the kids baskets full of goodies...

...dog stuffed animals, flip flops, kid-size yeti cups, play-doh, cookies and m&ms.

We decided to stay home this year for Easter, so Rory created his perfect Easter day (that is if he can't go to California).

Big Yawn! Sleepy girl waiting to go look for eggs. 


That sleepy little face.



And they're off...



Rian: 22, Rory: 46

The best bunny pancakes I could muster up on 4 hours of sleep.

The cutest preppy girl.

With the cutest ponytail I've ever seen.

And my cute blue bunny.

When you don't want to use the oven to make cupcakes because the air conditioner is on and your cupcakes explode in the toaster oven because you forgot to let it preheat first! Oops!!!

They're still pretty even though they exploded!


Goofballs




My sweet Mags napping so hard.

Round 2 (She was up late with the Easter Bunny)

However, she was not!

And well Rian's new bunny, Mr. Grey got a little colorful. Now he's lovingly referred to as Mr. Doodle Grey!


Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all enjoyed your Easter. :0)

xoxo
-aMie

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Spring Breakin' It

Spring Break is here!!! But before I dive into our adventures, I have to wish my beautiful Nana a very happy 95th birthday!!!! That's right, she's 95 years old today! 



Spring Break could not get here fast enough this year. The kiddos knew that we had plans to go to California and they were super excited to see their cousins.... and I was too! Because of scheduling and work, Randy wasn't going to be able to come with us. :0( So this trip was going to be much more laid back than our Spring Break trip last year, but that didn't seem to matter to the kids. They love to travel and swim and spend time with family, so this trip was perfect for them.

This crazy kid was ready for a little break with her silly selfie!



Oh the baby love. These two babies go everywhere with us...

...including a pet carrier crammed with small stuffed animals.

Saturday morning the kids and I loaded up the car and were Cali-bound.

Nama picked up some kites for the kids


We discover that my parents' street is perfect kite-flying.




Rory was dying to learn how to play checkers, so Papa came to the rescue.




Out cold from a busy day.

Room couch service

Grammy came over to visit and had some Easter surprises for the kids...



Thanks Grammie!!!




And then we were off to celebrate this beautiful lady with a birthday lunch!

Squishy cheeks


The best photo bombers ever!


Cousins


Moments before she slid in waist deep...on purpose! (Never a dull moment!)


This crazy kiddo is obsessed with cleaning pools now.

3 generations

Since we've been back the kids have dug into their Easter goodies from Grammie.




We've spent some time with our friends at a bunny brunch. My veggie platter "carrot".

Rory's pancake bunny

And you know she had a good time when she falls asleep minutes after getting home!

I hope you all are enjoying your week! Thanks for stopping by HOH!!!


xoxo
-aMie