Easter

This is the first year we've spent Easter home in quite a while. We didn't do anything spectacular, on Saturday just tidied up all our gardens around the house, but it was nice to just be home. The gardens look so neat now, and it is great to really appreciate all the crocus coming in. Plus we have hyacinth, daffodils, tulips and iris sprouting. I'm glad we got a jump on the outdoor spring cleaning, since we will be on vacation in April and soccer always puts a cramp into it anyway.

Saturday evening we colored our Easter Eggs around our kitchen table. This was a big change for us. Usually we color eggs at Grandma's house in Maine, along with about 25 other extended family members. Then there is a contest to see who has the "scariest", the "funniest", etc. This year it was nice to not have direction. We mostly all concentrated on making beautiful eggs.

You can click on the photo to enlarge it and see them up close. Down in the front is R's pig, and you can also see some made with rubber bands, reinforcements, and stickers, and tie-dye eggs made in the sink with drops of food coloring. We had a really relaxing evening and were very happy with our eggs.

The boys went to bed a lot later than I would have liked. Then they woke up at 6:30. We had given notice that they could wake us up at 7:30, but when we heard them we got up.

They got way too much candy from the Easter Bunny. They also got a few gifts, evidently so the Easter Bunny could bring less candy; Webkinz, DVD's (Spiderman for R and The Brady Bunch The Final Season for E), t-shirts, posters, and a Transformer for E and a Scene It game for R.

Check out the differences in style when it comes to emptying the baskets:
If you guessed that the left pile belonged to R, and the right pile belonged to E, you guessed correctly. And now you can appreciate how the Easter Bunny goes a little overboard for us.

After opening everything up the boys spent some time searching for all the hidden eggs we had colored the night before. They were hidden all around the living room, and in the end we had to help. Then B and I went back to bed and left the boys with The Brady Bunch and candy. That extra two hours made all the difference.

Nagy Papa came for dinner and we had lasagna in front of the TV; watching Spiderman. And we had some leftover cupcakes from our easter egg hunt for dessert.

It was a very easy going day. We really enjoyed spending Easter at home, and will probably do so from now on. Maybe next year we can talk Grandma into coming here though; we all missed her.