Eggs Eggs Eggs

Easter 2014

The day started off with a bunch of clean sugar free kids....It didn't end that way.

We typically spend days like this with Josh's side of the family. Today was no different. My job this year was an appetizer and a desert..simple enough...Well, simple if you didn't have screaming twins. I had planned on making sugar cookies with the kids and making my husband's Great Grandmothers famous Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. I have made it dozens of times without skipping a beat but of course this day, I didn't have parchment paper...That was the start to the end! The twins were not about to play happily yesterday so I ended up rushing through the cake without lining the pan and OF COURSE it stuck like crazy! I pasted it back together but knew the second we cut into it..TOAST! I'm sure it would have tasted wonderful but it was going to look like a frosting glued mess on the inside. I gave up, put the babies to bed and decided to try again in the morning.

This is the worst part of having such a small home. When the twins are ready for bed everyone has to head to the back of the house so they will sleep which means they are all in my room 24-7. NO cleaning, no cooking, no nothing! They go to bed no later than 7:30 which takes away a lot of time I could be using to accomplish tasks. Even the baby-sitters have to hang out in our room until we get home, not cool. 

Thankfully this morning went better and I had enough cream cheese to make another batch of frosting. This time I made carrot cake cupcakes instead so that the lack of parchment paper wouldn't be an issue. In between batches of cupcakes the girls helped me finish up and decorate the cookies and all was well. The kids all opened up their Easter Baskets and were happily surprised with a few little treasures. Now we do not go present crazy in our house for holidays. Honestly I think it's a bit ridiculous when I have seen and heard of the extravagant gifts the Easter Bunny is bringing now-a-days. To each his own but in this house I am quite pleased that my kids were excited to receive a few small things like jump ropes, chap stick, decorative pencils, Pez dispensers and of course some cute candies. The twins received a little pink Teddy Bear and a few candies that they inhaled. After a quick sugar high we headed to the families...

Gianna could not have been more excited to see her grandma's and eat some chocolate!

Skinny Minnie here could not wear her new dress because she has zero fat so the dress fit length wise perfectly but fell off her skinny body! Thankfully Grandam Gina had just bought her a very cute jumpsuit- very 70's and she looked adorable.

Richard was so excited to have the kids he didn't even open the Easter Basket we had gotten him. 

Charlie was not so sure about this whole "Easter" thing

Penny on the other hand was ready to play

So serious

Ty decided he was not going to search for eggs this year. Grandma Jackie wasn't having it, so Ty did hunt for eggs but I'm pretty certain this was the last year ;-(

Penny loves sitting in big chairs

Penny's new thing is making this funny face. She loves to make everyone laugh

Cousin Natty came over to play and dye eggs

We had to loose the dresses in order to save the dresses!

Daddy helping Pen Pen

Gigi is a perfectionist

Paris trying to not get dirty

Richard finished his eggs the fastest

So egg hunting... Charlie figured out it was best to find one egg, eat all the contents and then move on to the next... I image we will be finding foil wrappers in diapers the next several days...

Penny figured out how to put the eggs in her basket but then realized Charlie had the right idea...Eating Foil 101 is a class they can now both teach.

I am so glad we stripped the dresses prior to the egg hunt

This is Charlie's "Cheese"

Penny and her basket

We followed up our visit at Aunt Carols with more of the family. The kids had a second egg hunt for dollar bills! I was just happy there wasn't anymore chocolate. We had a wonderful visit with everyone and I guarantee these kids will sleep very well tonight. Another year, another batch of wonderful memories. It really was a wonderful time for the kids and pure joy to watch their excitement.

Much Love