Easter Best

I loved the kids Easter outfits this year. I always make them pose for a picture on the front steps. This year they really got into it. Here are some shots from our little photo shoot. 

Bunny Ears

Gillian found a pair of bunny ears. She has been wearing them quite often. I went to tuck her in one night and found them on her head. 

For St. Patty's Day I made sure the kids wore green shirts and Gillian added to the outfit by putting on her bunny ears. 

The other morning she insisted on wearing them to school. 

The ears are a little small, hopefully the Easter Bunny will bring some more ears so she can continue to wear them all year long!

Egg Hunt

Grandma had an egg hunt at her house on Easter. We had the usual cast of characters: Justin, Sammie, Kyle Thomas, John and Gillian. 

Grandma sets up the egg hunts so that each kid has a specific color or theme to look for. For example Gillian had to look for purple and animals while John had green and dinosaurs. This makes it fair for everyone hunting considering the wide range of ages. This year there were new eggs that were tricky and looked like common things like the grass or a lady bug or a rock. These eggs were free game for anyone to find. 

I stuck with Gillian during the hunt, mainly because John is too fast and ran the whole time. Gillian didn't really need much help. She would see purple and go running. 

All the kids helped each other out. There was a lot of yelling "Hey, there's an animal over here." Or "I see sports over here!" 

We went around the house a couple times looking for some of the camo eggs (they are hard to find). And we finally gave up and everyone counted their eggs. 

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for an awesome egg hunt! The kids had a blast!

Clinking Cookies

I love making cookies for holidays and just for fun. Yesterday I brought a platter of Easter cookies to Grandma's house. Gillian ate more cookies than I would like to admit. But she also handed cookies out to Uncle Kevin, Aunt Betty and Grandpa. Gillian and Aunt Betty started a new tradition of clinking cookies before they would eat them. Silly girls. 

Easter Morning

Since we were visiting GiGi and Pop-Pop for Easter this year, we brought the kids Easter baskets with us. The kids put out their empty baskets for the Bunny to fill.  When we tucked them into bed last night, we asked "Do you think the Eastwe Bunny will find us here?" Gillian immediately responded "Yes! Hims will find us!" John was a little unsure "I don't think so." 

John woke up first this morning, and we had to wake up Gillian. The two of them searched everywhere for their baskets. Finally John spotted them in the great room. He said "I told you he would come!" Gilly said "He found us!" I didn't get any pictures of the kid's baskets or them finding the baskets. They were super excited to get jump ropes, bubbles, bouncy balls, chocolate bunnies, Legos, a necklace, princesses and super heroes. 

After opening baskets, we all went out to get breakfast. After breakfast, we returned back to GiGi and Pop-Pop's house. Daddy saw that the Easter Bunny left some eggs around the house. The kids figured out that the Bunny left green and blue eggs for John and pink and purple eggs for Gillian. The kids were awesome this year. They really worked as a team. We heard a lot of "John, over there!" Gilly, I see a pink one!" 

We went inside to see what was inside the eggs. John was super excited to find a quarter in one egg. "I'm rich!" he said. In a big egg, he found gold coins. I said "Look John, you got Gold Doubloons!" This made him very excited. He said "Yes! Gold Doubloons! Hey, are these chocolate?" 

I asked the kids "What was your favorite part of today?" John said "Finding all the eggs." Gillian said "The candy." As always Daddy and I enjoyed spending time with our kids and Daddy's family too. 

Happy Easter!

Easter

On Easter Sunday, we went to Mimi and Poppy's house in the morning. We arrived and waited for the neighbors to arrive. When the neighbors arrived, we sent the kids outside for an egg hunt. The kids eggs were hidden by the deck. John was the oldest and we told him to not go for the easy eggs. We didn't realize that by telling him that he wouldn't get many eggs. He walked past all the easy eggs so that Gillian and Nolan could get them. Gillian loved the egg hunt. She was very competitive. At one point, we caught her stealing eggs from Nolan's basket.

Mimi also set up an egg hunt for the big kids! I was smart and teamed up with John. He is really fast and he found more eggs than I did. Gillian teamed up with Aunt Missy. But that didn't last long, because the first egg Gillian saw John grabbed it and she cried. So Daddy took Gillian. But Gillian was able to find a few eggs that the big kids missed! After the hunt, we had some yummy breakfast.

Then we went to Aunt Trish and Uncle Kevin's house. Gillian was super excited to go and see Sammie. "I see Sammie. Sammie my cousin!" The kids got to play a little while then it was time for the next hunt. This hunt is set up so each kid has specific eggs to find. John had dinosaurs and orange eggs to find. Gillian had purple and animal eggs to find. Justin had camo eggs. Kyle had sports eggs. Sammie had flowers and yellow eggs. Since the kids ages range from, 2.5 to 10 this hunt can be made more difficult for the older kids and easier for the little kids. The kids had so much fun! We timed it well, because it started to rain just as we were going inside.

The kids had so much fun with their cousins. Gillian cried when it was time to leave. "I don't wanna go!" She refused to put her coat on. She wanted to stay and play with her cousins.

Here are some pictures of the kids Easter