Easter 2012

We had the good fortune to be able to celebrate Easter with Mammy and Kip!  The countdown to their arrival was a big event, good thing we didn't let the kids know that Mammy and Kip were coming until a week prior...any longer than that would have been torture!

Mammy and Kip arrived in style too...

That just put my minivan to shame!

We had tons of fun playing lots of games and reading books and playing house, Mammy has all the stories for those, but good luck getting her to retell them without bursting out laughing.  Thankfully were also able to complete some Easter crafts, like building Peep birdhouses....

It started out so well, and everyone had a lot of fun making them too...a little unconventional for an Easter craft, but this is coming from the woman who makes Groundhog donuts on February 2, so what do you want from me?

The Final Products:

 

We made them double deckers with a choice for a covered home or a bird nest on the roof.

Then we got some complaints...

Then we suffered a catastrophic event:

Please know that no Peep was injured in the devastation, they were only eaten...no harm no fowl...:)

In an effort to save face our next Easter craft was n safe one...Dying the Easter Eggs....

A HUGE success, and quality work for the Easter Bunny to hide!  A handwritten and illustrated not, with just one minor adjustment (I had no carrots just lettuce, or 'Lettis').

Easter Morning arrived, and the baskets that had been hung by the Chimney with care, oh don't roll your eyes..I know what Holiday it is, did you forget whose blog you were reading??

Anyway, the Easter baskets were filled to the brim with goodies by the Easter Bunny, and later that morning we were dressed in our Easter best and headed off to church!

The kids were AMAZING in church, and I had my doubts as Palm Sunday didn't go that well, but you have to set the bar low for that especially since everyone in Church thought it was absolutely necessary that each of the children have their own Palm Branch. Don't worry, they were regretting it by the time they got whacked in the head with it for the tenth time.  You now know why I had my doubts about Easter.  However, they were perfect, just ask the very unbiased Mammy and Kip.

After Mass we went out to lunch, and then back home for the Easter egg hunt...

After all of that, we had cupcakes for dinner....

 

 The kids had to have a little sugar, right?