Easter Egg Coloring, The Hunt & Baskets

It wouldn't be Easter without coloring eggs so Grandma got everything set up and we let the kids at it. Does anyone else have a tradition of cracking the hard boiled eggs on each other's heads? Not the kids heads, just the adults. That was just something that we did growing up and when I first did it to Daniel he looked at me like I was nuts!

Anyways, onto the pictures...



Once we brought out the stickers for the eggs, Mitchell had a good time putting them all over himself.



We did a little Easter egg hunt for the kids outside, it was so much fun to watch. Maggie, Casey, Ava, Mitchell & Calder.


Maggie was so funny - she would only pick up the pink and purple eggs not the blue, green, orange ones. What a girlie girl!


Jackpot! There's smarties inside!



This is hard work!



The kids were somewhat interested in their Easter baskets Sunday morning...

Maggie and "her" Grandma.



...but once they realized there was chocolate and candy in there they became a little more interested. And yes, Mitchell likes to hike his pants up, but if there is ever a flood he'll be laughing at all of us!

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend! We spent the first half at the lake at Grandma and Grandpa Reiter's. It was beautiful outside we spent a lot of time out there.

What do kids do in Saskatchewan when it's too cold for sand castles? Build snow castles...



The kids had a lot of fun playing with their cousin Ava. They are finally at the age where they like to really "play" with other kids. And Casey especially just loves to be around older kids.

Casey is very good at throwing a frisbee. Seriously, he can throw it perfectly a lot of the time!


After frisbee came tee ball practice for the boys.


The kids did some damage to the big box that Grandpa saved just for that reason. Calder was wise to want to get out of there.

Uncle Jody and the kids were banging on the box and pushing it around with Brennan (my 13 year old nephew in it).

Maggie was determined to push it herself.

Daddy's girl!

Back inside, our one and only family picture from Easter and I think Mitchell is the only non-dopey-eyed one.

When it comes to meal time, thank goodness Grandpa is handy and could build an extra kids table!

Pre-Easter Pics

We had a great first half of the Easter weekend at the lake at my parents' place. Now we're back home and into the second half with Daniel's family. We took some pictures of the kids before we left because we weren't sure whether we'd get another chance with them dressed up so nicely. So this was just in front of our house before we hit the road to Grandma and Grandpa's.


Maggie loved to twirl in her dress! It was so cute!





We took the kids for some Easter pictures last week. Once I figure out how to scan them and get them onto here I'll post them. Until then, these were the pictures we took outside of Superstore on a bench while we bribed them with marshmallow Easter bunnies.


I think the kids look so grown up in these pictures. It's happening way too fast!

Casey

Mitchell

There will be many more pictures to come, but it may take a while to get through them all!

We'll Miss You Amber!

We have been extremely lucky to have found such a great young girl to come into our home and care for our kids. Originally the plan was for Amber to be here the 3 days a week that I worked. Things changed a little for us right around the time that I went back to work when Daniel resigned from his job. He has since then been working from home in the office and Amber has been here with the kids.

However, we began to realize that his work was not as busy for him in the mornings when she was here, but rather later in the day when I was home from work. So we came to the decision that it would make the most sense for Daniel to just be here with the kids while I'm at work and then I will be home when he needs to do his work. We wrestled with the idea because Amber has been nothing but awesome with the kids and they just love her, but really it just came down to us wanting to spend as much time as possible with our kiddos because they are growing up so quickly.

Last Friday was Amber's last day with us so we all went out for lunch to Boston Pizza. The kids did relatively well, but sitting in a booth gives them a little too much freedom. Once the jello and whipped cream came though, they sure sat quietly!





She got the kids each a helmet which they have worn NON-STOP since then!


We'll miss you Amber, but we'll definitely see you at the soccer field this summer!

A few weeks ago Daniel was away for a couple of days and I had to work so the kids went to my parents. They found a Dora book that they loved and Grandma taught them about Swiper the fox, and they now tell us, "Swiper, no swiping!" I don't even know what that means.

I'm not sure what it is about stairs and snacks, but this is a popular spot at Grandma and Grandpa's too.

Casey was so tired one day at lunch he could barely keep his eyes open. Grandpa was trying to feed him grapes but he couldn't even get up the strength to open his mouth (which is very unlike him).


I think he could have asked for anything at that moment and Grandma would have given it to him.

Mitchell laid claim to Mr. Potato Head's teeth.


As always, outside at the lake is sooo much fun especially this time of year with all of the puddles!




The kids were so excited that there was a cat hanging around outside of the house.

Especially Casey!