Top Ten of Easter 2011

So as I sit at work (shhh) exhausted as can be, I thought back over this weekend on some of the real life funny things that happened.  Before I put up all the cute, fun Easter pictures showing what a "perfect" family we are, I figured I would come up with a real top ten of our Easter weekend fun:

10. Getting only four hours of sleep--blech, and having the kids come running into our room screaming "it's Easter" over and over until we finally had to respond to their incessant shouting. very happily I might add :)

9.  Going to the Easter pageant with THREE kids five and under.  Fun. Yes. Wild at times. Yes. During the scene where Jesus was crucified Eli began to yell loudly "Look Momma, Jesus died" and Robby chimed in with "Did Heavenly Father die tooo?"

8. Robby was equally perplexed at the end of the pageant when everyone came back out on the stage.  He couldn't understand why the bad men (aka Roman soldiers) were allowed to come back on the stage.  Papa reassured him that Jesus had risen and now all the people were good, even the mean ones.......nice

7. Going to church today at 10am as a family.  What did I get out of sacrament meeting today you may ask?  Well, I learned that Jesse's shoulder is the perfect place to rest my head, Robby can successfully dump an entire tray of bread quite easily because he can pass the tray "all by myself", the kids are fantastic at making messes pretty much anywhere we go, and I think my husband may have told me I was beautiful somewhere in my haze between sleep and reality. bliss right?!

6. I think I may have yelled at my son when he was trying to help a pretend rubber fishy swim back to the ocean through the toilet.  yep, that's right, up to his elbows in potty water and flushing with all his might.  The best part {not} is that earlier in the day Jesse was joking around to Robby about flushing the same fish down the toilet.

5. "Baby Scared": the phrase that Eli told me when I tried to make him practice swimming in the big pool at Grandma and Grandpa Sheffields on Friday.  He seriously cracks me up and somehow finagled is

4. Going super simple with Easter baskets this year. As in using dollar store Easter buckets for the kids, a broken basket for me from years past, and a small wood basket for Jesse that I am pretty sure was used at our wedding years ago.  Each basket had a very limited amount of candy inside and that was it folks.  At first I felt kind of bad when I was putting them together.  But then when I watched their cute little faces this morning, I realized they really don't care.  I think I may continue to keep baskets simple next year as well!

3. Egg Dying party that included Robby taking a nice sip of the green dye because "it looked yummy".  On the bright side, he now knows he does NOT like the taste of vinegar.  We only had about 3 mishaps with broken/cracked eggs, otherwise it egg dying went surprisingly well.

2. Making delicious Cadbery Mini Egg Cookies courtesy of Mrs Budge and her shared recipe.  All went well other than slightly burning the first two batches {I am the worlds worst baker...I swear I have ADD and cannot sit long enough to wait for the darn cookies to finish cooking}.  Luckily the hubby happily ate all those semi-burnt ones without a complaint!

1.  Crabbiness by this wifey at having to work yet another Easter.  I hate working holidays. There I said it.  Now that I got that out there, let me just say that I do appreciate having a job, I do appreciate being able to work 12 hours at a time thus allowing me to only work three days a week,  I do appreciate that I work a swing shift and don't have to be in to work until 1pm which allowed me to spend Easter morning with the kids, and I actually do enjoy working as a nurse; I just don't like feeling like I am constantly missing out on extended family get togethers, I don't like being so tired I can hardly function, let alone enjoy the Holidays, and I don't like being unable to make the Holiday's cute/special for my kids due to lack of time and energy.  All in all I look forward to the day that I can be home on Holidays and pick up shifts here and there and not depend on it as an income.  And there I said it and got it out of me :-)