EASTER

We had a wonderful, relaxing Easter weekend. We were hoping for more sunshine on Saturday but only got a little in the morning and then rain, rain, rain for the rest of the day. So not much yard work completed, though I did get both back decks swept off. Of course after only one day, there's more pine needles, my nemesis!

Saturday afternoon we colored Easter eggs. We did Volcano and Tie-dye eggs. For the volcano eggs we made a paste with baking soda and a little water then added bright neon yellow food color. We painted the paste onto the boiled egg then dropped one drop of two or three other colors of food color. Next we dripped vinegar over the egg and watched the reaction of the baking soda with the vinegar. After letting them sit for a minute or so, we just rinsed them in water.They came out great! Our new favorite way to dye eggs! For the tie-dye eggs we soaked the boiled eggs in vinegar for about 5 minutes, put the egg in a colander, dropped one drop of color on the egg then rolled it around in the colander. We did two to three colors per egg, one color at a time, then rinsed with water. They were ok. We did them last year too but we liked the volcano eggs best. I had also bought a bunch of plastic eggs and candy. Ashlyn had a great time stuffing as much candy as possible into each egg and then trying to get them to close.

The Easter bunny was very nice to Ashlyn this year. He brought her some headbands and barrettes for her hair, a jump rope, some side walk chalk, a chocolate bunny and The Frozen CD. She loved the CD and listened to the whole thing before we left for Grandma's. She walks around singing those songs constantly! She knows all the words too which is just amazing. She's going to be much better at the "Who sings this?" game Jered loves to play than I am, for sure!
At Grandma's house she got a new watering can, new gardening gloves, money, more chalk and lots of candy! As soon as we got home Sunday afternoon she was filling her watering can and watering all of the plants outside.

Easter pics:

Jered and I spent his birthday weekend at 

Grand Lodge. Lots of fun!

Our pretty little poser

 hunting

 look at my haul!

 O M G....its $$

 I love $$

 family pic, but Ashlyn said it was way too bright

 cousins

 eating candy

 being silly with my cousin Grace

watch out Mom, here we come

 helping Daddy mow the lawn. Look at all those dandelions!

Big thanks to Grandpa Eddie for the riding lawn mower!

I compromised with Daddy. I wanted to sleep in my

castle tent from Grammy, he wanted me to sleep in my bed.

our volcano eggs