"Look at my wings Mommy!"

Easter Egg Hunt 2014

If you look through these pictures and think, "How photogenic her kids are!"...here's the truth.

These are the faces it takes ...

to get this pic!

With that disclaimer out of the way, on to the best shots from our family's Easter celebration!

The Easter Bunny brought candy for the first time, but also TWO tball sets.

(A personal thank you from me Bunny, buying two will save me a lot of refereeing! You did well with that buy-one-get-one sale at Amazon!)

Gavin was THRILLED. He's been wearing that coach whistle three weeks straight. Including in the bath and lying it next to his pillow at night.

Ethan was OFF!!

"What is this on the grass? It's not an egg?"

 

Random old toy discarded, the hunt continued!

Yes, he's midair here.

While Ethan flew through the yard, Gavin clutched his new bat close, needing reminders to look for eggs.

(Psst... Little does Ethan know there is ONE M&M in each egg, I barely went through half a small bag stuffing them)

They finally noticed the Easter baskets.

Silly spray was a particularly big hit.

"So wait... You're saying Ethan snagged most of the candy while I played baseball with my new bat?"

"What I really hear you saying is..."

"I got my own bat!"

"No more sidelines for me suckas!"

Oh and further evidence of Easter miracles, I cooked a healthy dish successfully that we all enjoyed... and no smoke alarms went off!

Happy Easter!

 

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Best Snow Day Ever!

We started the morning meeting our neighborhood friends for some sledding.

Back when we were pregnant with Ethan and house hunting, we discovered this 2.5 acre park on the other side of our future home's backyard fence. When we opened the fence and saw it, we dreamt of sledding down its big hill with our children. Little did we imagine the fun neighborhood friends that we'd have to join us!

Check out the grown ups snowball fighting here.

Ethan helped me build MY very first snowman!

(Whose head was later used in the snowball battle.)

After almost two hours of sledding and snowballing, we were all wiped and took a nap!

(Well, Chris went to work, poor guy. But the rest of us napped!)

We then kicked off our afternoon with some hot chocolate and a movie! Then opened a craft box and did some artsy fartsy fun!

(You can see the chocolate mustaches still on their lips)

Ethan signed his work.

While Gavin drew one of his two favorite subjects, fish (the other is horses). Don't see it? Neither do I! But that's what he signed it was. And yes, he's definitely a lefty. Yet AGAIN, he's just like his Daddy.

 

Wonderful day with the family enjoying a snow day. And now, LET'S GO BACK TO SCHOOL ALREADY! ;)