Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Happy Easter!

Despite Easter being pretty late this year, we've been so busy that it sort of snuck up on me!  Last week I realized we hadn't partaken in any of our Easter traditions, so I quickly made a list & started getting things crossed off.

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The list reads:
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I decided to simplify the Easter baskets this year & got each of the kids one $15 item, one $5 item, two $1 items, & some candy.  I decided I prefer this over filling their baskets with cheap junk toys that will easily get broken or never played with.  Here’s what’s in the baskets this year:

Zeke- 10 Year Old Boy
  • $15 Google Play Gift Card
  • Bird Feeder
  • Jump Rope
  • Frog Webkinz (from Dollar Tree)
  • Reese Cups
  • Jelly Beans
Elie- 7 Year Old Girl
  • Frozen DVD
  • My Little Pony
  • Chalk
  • Fish Webkinz (from Dollar Tree)
  • Reese Cups
  • Jelly Beans
Evie- 2 Year Old Girl
  • Percy Battery Operated Train
  • Battery Operated Bubble Toy
  • Bubbles
  • Bunny Webkinz (from Dollar Tree)
  • Reese Cups
  • Jelly Beans
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If you want more Easter or Spring ideas, be sure to check out my Pinterest page!

Have a wonderful Easter!

Keeping Busy

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

{Our attempts at a decent Easter picture didn't turn out so well!}

Sorry for the lack of posting lately, but I am still feeling my way through having a third child!  I'm considering this my maternity leave!

Anyway, I have still been working on the nursery, which was supposed to be finished last month.  Between nursing, exhaustion, & the Pinterest time sucker, I haven't been able to get much accomplished, but it is coming along & I hope to share some of the latest projects with you next week.  Hopefully, I'll get it all finished within the next couple of weeks.  There are only a few projects left to complete.

Last week was spring break for our family.  We didn't want to travel far, since we have a newborn, so we decided to take a quick trip up north, to Columbus, Ohio.  Our trip included a tour of a life-sized replica of the Santa Maria, swimming at the hotel, & a visit to COSI (a science center).

{Santa Maria}

{Zeke riding the 17 foot unicycle at COSI!}

{Getting ready to go underwater in a yellow submarine!}

{Water Play}

Of course, we also spent some time hunting for eggs, coloring eggs, & opening Easter goodies!

{Family Egg Hunt}

{Evalyse's first Easter...Why did I not dress her in a more girly sleeper or wipe the spit-up off her face???}

Obviously, Evalyse didn't get candy for Easter (Okay, I did put a chocolate bunny in her basket that I fully intended to eat myself!).  Since it's hard to know what to put in a 5 week old's Easter basket, I'll share what she had in hers:

White Eyelet Sun Hat (Target)
Hippo Rattle (Geranimals from Wal-Mart)
3 pack teethers (Wal-Mart)
Rubber Duck (Wal-Mart)
Ball (Target)
Egg Shakers (plastic eggs filled with rice, beans, or dry macaroni & glued back together)
Printable black & white flash cards (free download from Brillkids)
Taggy Blanket (made by me!)

{Perfect by no means!}

Well, I think that fills you in on life the past few weeks!  I'll be back next week to show off some of the nursery progress.

Have a great weekend!



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