Easter 2012

So I have finally clawed my way out from under the rock that I feel like I have been living under for the past month with the help of a little white pill I am so fond of these days... zofran I love you.  Things have been going on business as usual around our house thankfully, without much help from the mom.  I am so glad that I have such great kids.  We had a whole week off of school for spring break and I had all of these great plans about what we would do with all of those days off of school.  None of them happened.  Well I guess that isn't entirely true we did go to the park one day and got some of the spring cleaning chores checked off our list, but mostly we just hung out at home and took things easy.  We did get our Easter eggs dyed one afternoon and that was really fun.

each kid gets a dozen eggs to dye.  Here are most of them.  

We made special arrangements with the Easter bunny to come on Saturday because of Jake having to work on Easter.  It kinda worked out better that way then anyway cause then all of the sugar rush was over way before Sunday and church.  I didn't get any picture of the actual easter egg hunt because we did it first thing and I was barely able to watch myself let alone take any pictures.  But the best thing the Easter bunny left us this year were these little mini green houses that the kids wanted to plant first thing after the egg hunt.  I did manage to get a few pictures of this....

first they had to get the dirt pellets wet and put them in the cup planters.

then plant the seeds.

Here is Ashton with the "boys" planter.  It has mini vegetable plants in it.  Tomato, cucumber, and pepper.  Jake helped him get everything just right.

Here are Lexie and Abbie with the "girls" planter.  It has flowers.  I don't remember what kind except for forget me nots.  Luckily for me Lexie helped Abbie and I didn't have to do anything but watch them have a good time and take a few pictures.  I was really surprised at how fast some of the seeds sprouted, some of the girls seeds sprouted the very next day.  

Overall we had a good holiday.  Too bad I didn't get more pictures....