Sugar for my Sugars

As much as I try to avoid too many treats for my kids on Easter, I just can't resist.  Since we don't normally buy candy, I think it's okay to spoil them every once in a while. :)

I got home from Denver late Saturday afternoon, picked the boys up at Grandma's and it was 7:30pm by the time we got home.  Just enough time to get the eggs ready for the Easter bunny . . .

 The next morning, we found our baskets . . .

And joyousness abounded!

Then onto the Egg Hunt!

  Some were seriously camouflaged.

And Dad had to help with some too.

Back to playing with all their goodies:

  

All ready for church: 

More Easter fun with the cousins at Grandma & Grandpa's

Egg hunt for the "little kids":

 Scavenger hunt + Egg hunt for the "big kids":

And just to prove that we were really there:

And that's our Easter in a [large] nutshell.  Luckily most of the candy that was not consumed that day has been forgotten about and may soon disappear for good . . .

Phew! Does this craziness ever end?!

So I need to do a little "catching up" on my blog, even though I don't believe in that, but so much has been going on this month!  Since I don't have time to post it all right now, here's a little taste of the happenings and the postings you will soon see (hopefully).

The week Cody finished school (which was Spring Break for Corbin), we painted the big boys' room (finished pics coming soon):

After Cody finished on Wednesday, we headed out for a little trip to here:

And here (can you tell where we are?): 

We came back, had a day of rest, and then on his birthday, Corbin turned into a mad scientist:

Russ went back to work and I packed for Denver to go see this:

I got home just in time for this:

And then for all the Easter morning excitement:

Now we are sort of back to normal life.  Russ is off to Seattle for a few days, and we are getting back into the routine of school, chores, meetings, etc and hopefully soon it will be warmer than 40 degrees so we can actually play outside!

Poor Cody

 

It's all my fault.  They get it from me.  And unfortunately there is absolutely nothing I can do to change it.  Late Saturday night, before Easter morn, Cody woke up having trouble breathing.  I did the hot steamy bathroom and tucked him back in.  By 1am, it was a full blown asthma attack.  I set up the breathing treatment in my room and things seemed a little better.  Two hours later, I realized things were not better.  I tried the inhaler and the steam room and he was able to sleep again.  By 4:30 and after the second breathing treatment I running through the scenarios in my mind of who I could call so I could take him to the ER, or would he make it til 8 when Russ got home?  He fell back asleep in my bed and I lay there with my hand on his chest for the next hour and a half making sure he was still breathing. 

At 6:30 the boys woke up excited about the Easter Bunny.  I convinced them to snuggle in my bed for a little bit longer and then we read some books (we were hoping to wait til Russ got home to go down and check out our goodies).  But despite the fact that Cody was still sucking air through a mini coffee straw, they were excited, there was no more containing them.

By the time Daddy got home, we had discovered the baskets and collected lots of eggs.  And despite not feeling well - at all - Cody was excited and happy.  Poor little guy, he just kept laying down by his basket "to rest".  And he didn't put up a fight when Daddy took him off to the doctor.

Corbin, Colton and I had our CinnaBunnies cereal for breakfast and enjoyed the Yoohoos from the Easter Bunny, but we sure did miss our Cody-bug. :(

Luckily, Daddy convinced the ER doc that Cody did not need to be admitted and that we would keep a close eye on him, and they made it home in time to go have some Easter fun with the cousins at Grandma's house.

The little kids found lots of eggs and presents to fill up their baskets, while the big kids had to work a little harder for theirs.

Grandma made a scavenger hunt with clues that led all over the house including the garage and "the room that smells like a fart".  Corbin LOVED it.  He loves a challenge and the fact that they got an egg in each room was a plus. 

So despite the stressful, sleepless night, it turned out to be a good day.  Time with family is always time well spent.  And I love my precious little boys.  I am so lucky to have them. 

Going Natural

So I thought it would be fun to try a little something different for Easter this year, and I have to say, it was kind of fun.

So we started with this:

We did a little of this:

And some of this:

And even this (although that had nothing to do with the task at hand):

Then we did this for awhile:

And finally this for an even longer while:

Somewhere in the midst of all "this", thanks to a distracted mother and a sharp peeler, we had a little of this:

But good thing that same mother knows how to make things all better:

And in the end, we had some really cool colored Easter Eggs that I totally neglected to get a picture of!  So you will just have to trust me.  (I know I still can't believe it, and somewhere in my mind I'm saying did I really not take a picture of the finished product?  Ahh.)  Oh well, so our favorites were the red and yellow onion skins and probably the beets.  Next year we may try these (since we bought them this year, but ate them instead).

There's more?

Yes, our Easter was so crazy exciting that I have hundreds of pictures (or maybe I'm just a little snap happy), literally, I had 371 pictures of our Easter weekend activities. Obviously I already posted a ton, but here are a few more of my favs from our lunch at the park on Easter Sunday.