Easter

The kids posing with their Easter stuffed animals from Granny!

Reading all the fun books we got at the library.

You can't see very well but Olivia is grinning big at Lindsey in this one.

We've got some sort of leak under the slab that our home is built on.  Too bad they had to cut out chunks of the wall in the girls' room to find this out.  They were supposed to come today and finish the job, but they haven't come yet and our hot water is messed up.  Now we can only get one quick lukewarm shower in before the hot water is completely gone and we have to have the hot water heater off in order to stop hearing the water running through our walls.  Tim doesn't mind because he had much worse in Peru on his mission, but I struggle without hot showers!

Tim taped the sheet rock pieces back over the holes temporarily to keep the kids out of it.  When Lindsey came in her room and saw the patched up wall she came running and asked me, "Why did we have an earthquake?"  Haha!  I have no idea how she knew that earthquakes caused cracked walls.  Little smartie!

Dying Easter eggs!  The kids didn't understand why you had to let the egg sit in the dye in order for it to color well.  They don't have enough patience for dying eggs we decided, plus when we looked away for one second and then looked back at the table, Cooper was drinking out of one of the cups.  Lovely!!

I bought an egg dying kit that had these cute chick attachments.  I should have read the directions first because it involved gluing really tiny pieces, and Tim and I even struggled with it, so the poor kids just had to watch while Tim and I struggled.  They do look cute though!

Sweet Livi fell asleep while we were dying eggs.

We let the kids each have one egg to eat when we were finished and Lindsey took a bite right off the top of hers before it was peeled.  Yuck - but pretty funny!  We told her to spit it out and once they all had a peeled egg, none of them liked them anyway.  Here's Lindsey eating her peeled egg.

Cute little Grace drew a picture for the Easter Bunny.  We were exhausted and scrambling to get the kids in bed when she decided to start drawing it, and she kept starting over because she thought she messed up.  We finally just told her that what she had was just fine and she needed to get in bed.  Scrambling around with all the kids she was saying something about not being finished but we were chaotically cleaning up, brushing teeth, etc.

Once they were all in bed and I finally got a good look at the picture, I saw that she was upset because she didn't finish her bunny.  I felt so bad that I went in her room to tell her that she could come finish it, but she was already asleep.  In the morning when she saw her Easter basket she didn't even notice that the Easter Bunny had taken her picture and left her a thank you note.  Even when I told her that the plate said thank you and I asked her if she thought the Easter Bunny would hang her picture on his fridge, she didn't seem to care one way or the other, she was too busy stuffing candy in her mouth.  So I worried about her picture for no reason.

Gorgeous kids in their Easter apparel, all ready for Church.

And this is what we found when we pulled her out of her
carseat . . . she's been having blowouts several times a day.  Not fun.  Plus it seems like whenever she does have a blowout, right after we get her in a new outfit, then she spits up all over it.  It is VERY tiring!  She's still the sweetest little thing though!  Love her!

Here she is talking and grinning with her Daddy on his birthday.  Adorable.