Neighborhood Egg Hunt

The rain let up just long enough on Saturday for us to get the remaining mulch spread, run 9 miles, and for the kids to play outside all day. It was also the day of the neighborhood egg hunt. We rounded up our crew to head down to the hunt by the pool.
Of course, they had to get their goofy on before we left.

Sadly, because of the rain, we haven't been able to get out and pose the kids under our flowering trees this spring. The yard is like a marsh and the poor little grass seeds that we planted 2 weeks ago are probably rotting out in the ground.

Here was the neighborhood turn out when given the green light. Look at those kids run!

Rumor has it that there were 1500 eggs! I think they were all found within 5 minutes and about 100 of them made it back to this house.

Later, Grandma and Grandpa Seibert came down for a weekend of eating. We did put Grandpa to work while he was here and the rain stopped. We needed to remove the half dead tulip tree from the yard. When Jim planted the new tree 6 feet away from this tree, he noticed that there were no roots from the half dead tree. After some discussion, the men decided to just push the tree over instead of cutting it down.

The plan worked pretty well and we don't even have to worry about a stump. The tree was rotting from the inside out. I'm glad we planted the new one. I hope it lives. It definately won't die because of lack of water.

Easter Crazies

Lent is finally over. Let the candy eating begin. We participated in way too many egg hunts and have way too much candy around here. That's the look of someone hopped up on candy.


Annalise shared these off colored twizzlers with me and Jim. Green Twizzlers? Ick. She was pretty happy about the purple one.

Then things started to get a little silly. We started playing with the eggs. Evie had both on her eyes until one fell out.

She wore these ears from school most of the afternoon. I think she is still hunting for more sugar.

Green crazy eyes.

I got in on it. They thought it was hilarious that I couldn't see so they were trying to sneak candy while these eggs were on my eyes.

Annalise couldn't get the eggs to stick to her squishy face. Instead she showed us the baby chick that she found in an egg a preschool. This was my favorite egg all year. She is still toting this chick around making nests here and there.

She did figure out how to balance one on her face.

and Evie got one to stick to her chin

Annalise's sugar high.

After dinner that evening, we colored the eggs. Actually, the kids did all the work. the only thing I did was to measure out the vinegar for the color tablets to dissolve in. The box said the tablets would dissolve in 3 minutes and then you could add water and start dying the eggs. It must have been the longest 3 minutes ever and Evie had to listen to hear if the tablets had stopped fizzing.

Eggs in progress. I did buy one of those kits but only because I was completely out of food coloring from some birthday party science experiments. I also didn't think they would get too excited if we dyed the eggs in onion skins or cabbage leaves.

The work finally begins.

In honor of Earth day, Evie made a cool blue and green egg.

Annalise stickered and colored all the eggs she could get her hands on. Thanks for the rubber band reminder, Aunt Kathy. they turned out nice and striped. A good time was had by all and we have already eaten 6 eggs. Just enough left for a nice egg salad for lunch.

Happy Easter

Our little beauties in their Easter Dresses. Happy Easter Everyone!

Lucky Ladybug

Each week at preschool, a child gets to be the "Lucky Ladybug". Normally it is the week of their birthday. Since Annalise's birthday was the first week of school, she was put at the end of the lists. The teachers said they didn't have their acts together well enough to do it the first week of school.When you are the Lucky Ladybug, you make a poster all about yourself. Stuff you like, pictures of friends and family. Things like that. I let Annalise decorate it all herself.
She put stamps all over it and lots of stickers. The only thing I did was to write the captions on the pictures.

Here is the finished poster. Well, finished as of Friday. Since then, she has added a few more drawings and stickers. By Wednesday, when she goes back to school, you probably won't be able to see the pink at all.