Easter Eve

Springbreak was the week before Easter Sunday, so it kind of felt like spring break was this big long Easter Eve.  

Grandma K (that's her with the brown her) came and played for a day.  I've been needing to go to the chiropractor for my tailbone (still aches, leftover from pregnancy and delivering fat babies) and it was going to be a long appointment and I had some other errands, so Grandma K is the best babysitter around, and the best price too!

She made these cute little crafts with the girls, aren't they soooo cute?

The Easter bunny visited and left a few goodies for the girls.  Nothing spectacular really.  The eggs were filled with craisins and cheerios, since trust me, they had plenty of sugar all week.

Jake loves loves Dr Seuss so he got them each a book.  I'm always amazed he will sit and read a 20 minute book to them at night.  I look for the SHORTEST book possible and still skip a few pages and try and tuck them in super fast. 

This little thing is a hot dog slicer, so funny!  The brown dog comes off, insert your hot dog, put the little brown dog back on and push down.  It dices your frankfurt for you.  And you put ketcheup in the dog bowl and dip your little sliced pieces in it.  Great for all those cold hot dogs my children consume :)

Amaryllis thought Schramma would just *love* that she got a fan in her Easter basket :)

Searching for eggs:

 We had the grandparents down for an easy Easter dinner.  Roast in the crockpot and salad.  Feels like a long time that I've actually set the table for grownups.

The girls set their own table outside.  Our neighbor (their kids are grown, and they have 5 dogs that they walk every day and Kensington always chases them down to pet the dogs) left them some cute Spring dishes and candy on the porch on Easter morning:

Skinny little Maybelle.  She lost some weight being sickie, but she's making up for it now :)

 

Grandma K and Auntie Megs got their hands on some Frozen dresses in Florida at Disneyworld, so you can guess whats been going on here.

(Best part of Easter, the 70% off section)

Alas, here's the awesome Easter photo of the 3 girls together, tree shadows and all.   I went AGAINST my insticts and stuck to my MANTRA (see previous post). 

My instinct is to spend all this time/money finding perfect dresses and doing some elaborate tea party eastery spring photoshoot.

My mantra is to quit spoiling them.

But I got to say.  I do miss the fact that I didn't put the effort in and do it.  Amaryllis has been begging me to find this canopy and recreate this tea party that I have a big gallery wrapped canvas hanging in the family room of. And I really need a good photo (other than iPhone picts) of the 3 of them playing in their fantasyland.

 

So maybe I just will :)