Easter weekend

Ok, so I had  huge post half way typed up from 2 weeks ago, and by golly, never finished it.  Well, I am feeling so guilty (thanks Jolene, lol) that I have been slacking on my blog - I decided to just delete everything I had typed and just not worry about it.  

In a nutshell, this was our Easter weekend:

Friday night:  Missionary Farewell Party,  fish fry event.  lots of fun.  stayed out past 10 p.m.  kids were pretty tired from that.

Saturday:  got up at 5 a.m. then got the kids up at 5:45 a.m. so we could go to the Stake Volleyball day that was an hour and a half away.  We had one youth team and one adult team from our ward.  We had not practiced or even touched a volleyball prior to that morning.  We lost after the second set of matches.  Had a ton of fun, bruises on my arms from the volley ball for a couple of days.  We got a flat tire, went to someones family Easter egg hunt, then went and got the car then went and got Krispy Kreme donuts with the kids.  Got home around 7 p.m.  Tried to feed the kids dinner, they were too tired and all just wanted to go to bed.  

Sunday:  The kids loved their Easter baskets, sorry, no pictures.  Krispy Kremes for breakfast not the brightest idea since we had tons of Easter candy.  Went to church it was great.  Came home, rushed around to make some food for our neighborhood Easter feast.  Got to neighbors house, Kolby throws up about 30 minutes later. sad.  About 20 minutes later, Tanner throws up.  more sad.  During dinner it started to lightly rain, we all piled into neighbors garage.  The egg hunt was at my house.  It was totally crazy and had too many people thinking they were in charge, ya know, too many cooks in the kitchen type thing.  Everyone did get 10 eggs each, so that was good.  Overall, in spite of all the craziness, we had a good Easter.

(see, and honestly truly, that was definitely much shorter that the half that I had already typed up, ha ha ha ha.)

Donald took a picture of me and the kids.  YUP, that's the best one we got! lol

My cute kids in their new Easter clothes.  

Brook loved twirly in her Easter dress and especially loved all the chocolate 

(as evidence shows all over her face.)

that's not even all the kids.  I think there were about 6 more who are not in the picture.

Colored by silk

On Sunday, between sessions, Donald and I tried a new egg dying activity.  My friends have a website called: www.ourbestbites.com, and if you scroll down a bit, you will find the silk tie dying activity.  Welll, we decided to give it a try.  

We colored 3 eggs (I know, I sure went over board here, ha ha ha).  I let the boys pick out the ties and then the work began.  First we had to take apart the ties, then we had to cut them into a proper useable size. After that you have you wrap the RAW egg as tight as possible with the silk material followed by some white cotton fabric (that would be a cut up old sheet).  Pop those eggs in a pot of water with some vinigar and boil for 20 minutes.  Let it cool a bit, and then unvail your beauties.  It was so fun to see how they all unfolded.  

We are going to do some more this week, but I want to get all the prep work done first so that it is easier for the kids and doesn't take as long.