I hate to admit it, but I think I get lazier and lazier with each passing Holiday. I have turned almost into a grinch and tend to not want to put any effort into decorating, celebrating, and doing over the top activities. It's a good thing we have family that sends us fun holiday crafts, snacks, and games to play otherwise I might have completely bypassed Easter this year (other than the fact that I DO have a child that remembers each and every holiday and reminds the other two as well). Easter this year was no exception to this general rule of laziness that I have going on. I swore that I would bake roll out cookies and stamp them into fun spring shapes, make fun Easter cupcakes, go on multiple egg hunts, hide baskets with a fun riddle to locate them, and decorate hard boiled eggs. Did any of this get done? Not a chance. Somehow the week went by way too fast and all of a sudden I had Saturday evening breathing down my neck. I finally went to the store the night before Easter after all kids were nestled in their beds, got home around 10:15pm and was so exhausted I fell asleep on the couch. When I woke up, I realized with a start that it was already 1:30 in the morning and nothing had been done. I hurriedly threw together our Easter arrangement and dumped each basket in a random spot in our house. Then it was off to bed for me, at least until Jesse got home from his trip to NYC at 2:30 am which meant I was up for another 45 minutes or so. Let's just say the Sunday morning came way too quickly for us. I was too tired to shoot any pictures of Easter basket discoveries or any of that nonsense. In fact, I completely spaced taking a few pictures of our Easter outfits before church.
On the way to church we looked back and Eli threw up all over his clothes while driving down the freeway. He had been a tad bit questionable in the few minutes before we climbed in the car and clearly a jostling ride didn't help things at all. Jesse dropped me and the older two kidlets off and then headed back home with mr E. We had a pretty enjoyable time at church and I have to admit that Robby and Maddie behaved almost as good as I can imagine. When we returned home, Eli greeted me by throwing up all over my brand new dress :) What a way to be welcomed home.
Although I never actually hid all the Easter eggs that were stuffed full of candy and money, I think the kids were sufficiently satisfied with the supply of treats in their baskets. And Eli love love loves his new Spiderman bike from the Easter Bunny as well.
We did attend our church's Easter egg Hunt Saturday during the day and the children had a grand time collecting their 18 eggs and then looking through their spoils of the day. It was quite a pleasant day to be outdoors and Eli was even able to wear his beloved Cars flip flops to the event :)
The most 'normal' picture of Maddie in her Easter dress. I need to post the outtakes of this endeavor to truly portray how silly our little girl is.
Robby looking handsome in his Easter suit (never mind the fact that he quickly ditched his shoes after church)
Eli in heaven with his new bike and helmet
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