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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Easter Party 2013
After the first part of our Easter activity filled day, we headed home for Lily to take a nap before heading over to a friend's house for an Easter party with more friends. After Crankypants took a good nap, Daddy headed to work, and the rest of us went off to the party.
We, the parents, hung out and chatted while the kids played until it was time to go out for the egg hunt! The dads did a great job putting the eggs out in the yard! The little girls couldn't wait to get out there and lined up at the door ready to go!
Lily was super happy to be looking for eggs again. Amy, after being with us earlier for the egg hunt, said, "It should be fun to get Lily inside after this." ahahhahahahahahhaha She was right. It was just as fun as the morning egg hunt ending...only it didn't last as long.
The toddlers headed out for their part first and then the big kids next.
It was a super fun time hanging out with friends and letting the kids play together again. I appreciate these women and their families so very much and I'm so grateful to have them in my life! What a fun Easter party! Can't wait until next year! And we'll have a couple more babies in the mix come next Easter...and with any luck, maybe more than a couple! ;)
We, the parents, hung out and chatted while the kids played until it was time to go out for the egg hunt! The dads did a great job putting the eggs out in the yard! The little girls couldn't wait to get out there and lined up at the door ready to go!
Lily was super happy to be looking for eggs again. Amy, after being with us earlier for the egg hunt, said, "It should be fun to get Lily inside after this." ahahhahahahahahhaha She was right. It was just as fun as the morning egg hunt ending...only it didn't last as long.
The toddlers headed out for their part first and then the big kids next.
Lily and Victoria wanted to look out the window, so what does any typical 2 year old do?? Climb up on the train table, of course and simply make it happen.
This is where the bigger boys hung out most of the evening...talking and playing video games.
{little} Lily's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
We also colored Easter eggs. It was helpful to do activities in age groups.
The toddlers pretty much manhandle the eggs and throw them into the dye.
Victoria waiting her turn with her mama. :)
Lily chose pink, green and blue for her colors. She was happy.
We chowed down on some pizza, salad, fruit and cake for supper and these toddler besties enjoyed every bit of it!
This is one of my fav pictures...EVER! Amy captured them playing and they both cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesed for her!
I love these girls!
Monday, March 25, 2013
Easter Egg Hunt 2013
While I need and want to post about turning forty, my amazing bestie and group of friends pulling off my first ever surprise party, and all the birthday things, I'm going to post about our past weekend's Easter happenings first!
I'm also pretending there's not 4-5 inches of snow outside and instead of wearing flip flops everyday { y'all know I still wear them often even in winter--can't take the desert out of the girl} I put on my stupid boots one more time to go out and clean off the car to get the kids to the bus.
After a week of super cold and wet weather, I was hopeful for Saturday's forecast of 40s and sunny since we were going to our community Easter egg hunt! The forecast did not disappoint. This Arizona girl needs her sunshine. Lily was super excited to get started and let's just say patience is not in a 2 year olds vocabulary. So we tried to distract her while we waited for the hunt to get started.
I'm also pretending there's not 4-5 inches of snow outside and instead of wearing flip flops everyday { y'all know I still wear them often even in winter--can't take the desert out of the girl} I put on my stupid boots one more time to go out and clean off the car to get the kids to the bus.
After a week of super cold and wet weather, I was hopeful for Saturday's forecast of 40s and sunny since we were going to our community Easter egg hunt! The forecast did not disappoint. This Arizona girl needs her sunshine. Lily was super excited to get started and let's just say patience is not in a 2 year olds vocabulary. So we tried to distract her while we waited for the hunt to get started.
Finally after enough waiting it was time to begin! The under 3 year olds go first and since it's in a big open field, there is plenty of space to run and more than enough eggs for the kids to collect their share. Lily loves to run!
Lily's bestie, Victoria, along with her parents, came with us too!
Lily left Victoria in the dust just to run run!
The girls collected eggs while their crazy mothers snapped away on cameras.
Andrew helped to keep track of Lily only ending up with 12 eggs at the end, so he'd examine her basket and then toss some out along the way.
Victoria was in a much better mood than Lily the whole time...especially when it came time to leave.
Hugs and kisses, of course...
Andddddddd then Lily realized it was time to go...she was not a happy girl.
She was d-o-n-e after that. No good pics of she and Mama, no good fam pictures and no good Easter bunny pics. She just wanted to keep getting eggs!
Luckily for Lily, we had another egg hunt in our schedule for later in the day...
after
a
nap!
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