Easter Weekend

 We spent Easter weekend with Mom and Dad.  Joel had fun terrorizing Ant Ant with his loose dangling tooth until he pulled it out.  Then he was super excited because my friend Stephanie had mentioned that they wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy and she left them toys...... thankfully the Tooth Fairy intercepted the Easter Bunny and all was well on Easter Morning.

 It was a beautiful weekend and we spent a lot of time outside.  We went Saturday to Pandapas Pond to hike a few trails

 There were a lot of trees to walk across

 Then we got to a creek where we either had to get our feet soaking wet or all cross over a log.  We all made it and no one fell in!

 One night we made our own pizzas

 The boys were really excited about having a real easter egg HUNT.  Its not a real hunt if the eggs are just laid out on a field.  That's more an easter egg gather.  So we hid a ton of eggs. Mom was even covering some eggs with dirt! ha! So it will be amazing if we actually found all of them.

 

 Then they went inside to count their eggs. And also count their money. Grandma always put coins in easter eggs and one Easter when the boys were little she was getting all the change out of her purse to put in a few eggs for them to find.  So I emptied Brents change drawer as I was filling eggs.

 Someone didn't get as much money as his brother....

 Lets count those eggs again.... ha! But Norah loves jelly beans and traded all her eggs with money in it for Joels jelly bean eggs so he was a little less grumpy after that

 Ant Ant taught Colin how to play double solitaire.

It was a great weekend and a great start to our spring break.

Busch Gardens

 We took the kids out of school the Friday before Easter and took them to Busch Gardens. 2/3 kids were excited.

 One of our kids was not too happy

I'm sure its hard to figure out which one wanted to stay in school

 But the tea cups brought smiles to all. And a green face to their mother. And I'm pretty sure that's why Joel loves it so much! ha! makes me sick

We took them to see the Elmo show thinking Norah might like it. She was terrified. Said it was creepy and after 5 minutes we left.  I told her it was people inside the costumes and in her words "that's even creepier mom" haha

Then we headed up to Blacksburg for the rest of the weekend.

Easter Egg Hunt Birthday Party

A few weeks ago we celebrated Norahs birthday with an Easter egg hunt. We had a rain date scheduled but earlier that week they were predicting snow showers. It was a little cold and we all bundled up but the sun was shinning.

 The kids helped me stuff around 700 eggs. I know my kids and an Easter egg hunt is more fun when their baskets are overflowing.

I was going to dress up like the Easter Bunny to surprise Norah but she saw me looking up costumes and said it was too creepy and she didn't want him coming to her party.  In fact she keeps asking me to delete this picture off my phone.  So its a good thing the Easter Bunny didn't arrive to terrify her!

 We were about to start the Easter Egg Hunt when a mom of a girl in Norah's class called and said they were 7 minutes away. So we started to play Red light Green Light instead to keep the kids from gathering up all the eggs.

 Then they all started to chase Colin.  Lots of fun - screaming giggling kids...

And then shortly after this two girls wiped out completely in a puddle of water. (Greg, one of the dads, told me at the end that he died laughing watching it all go down and his storytelling is pretty funny) At that moment the mom and girl we were waiting on showed up so I missed the wipe out.  Becca was one of the girls and lost a shoe in the mud. Sarah went and got it out. Then Becca went the rest of the time wearing Heathers shoes and Heather went barefoot. I didn't know until it was all over and I kept thinking that Beccas feet had really grown! ha!  The other girl was soaking wet. Poor Colin felt so bad he gave all his eggs to the girls.  Even though it really wasn't his fault.

The kids all noticed the girl we were waiting on was there so the egg hunt started and was over in minutes.  I should also mention the mom that was late I had never met before. She dropped off her two girls and then left.  Told me to call her when it was over. And one of her daughters I didn't even know her name. But no name girl did tell me at the end that it was a really fun party - probably because she consumed her entire basket of candy before she was picked up! So between the girls getting wet and the late girl's mom just leaving it was a little stressful for me.  But Norah loved it and that's all that matters

 Sweet girls - we miss Elizabeth living next door to us! but I'm glad they've stayed friends.