Easter Sunday

What a beautiful Easter Sunday we had. The weather was fantastic (sunny and mid 60's), and everyone seemed to be in a pretty good mood. Emma woke us up around 6:50am to see if the Easter Bunny had come. Don told her to go downstairs and see if she could find anything. Which she did because Mommy was up until 12:30am getting everything ready. So, Emma comes back and says "there are eggs EVERYWHERE". So then the wait begins. Maddie was still sleeping, and boy does she get cranky if you wake her up before she is ready. We asked Emma to go play in her room for a bit until Maddie wakes up, and she wasn't too happy about that, and I guess I really don't blame her. By 7:30 Maddie is up and Emma starts telling her where all of the Easter eggs were, and I start telling Emma that you are not suppose to tell. It is suppose to be a surprise. Then we head downstairs to see what the Easter Bunny brought. The girls each got a coloring book and a "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" video, plus some gummies. The girls are instructed that there are six Dora eggs (for Maddie) and six Princess eggs (for Emma) and those eggs have money in them. I don't know, totaling maybe $8.00 but that doesn't seem to bother them, money is money. Then the egg hunt begins. Maddie starts giving Emma all of the pink eggs that she finds (because Emma loves pink) and Emma starts giving Maddie all of the orange eggs that she finds (because Maddie loves orange). Don and I just tell them to find all of the eggs and make the deals later. Ah, those were the days...life was so simple...and the joys of finding plastic eggs... Oh and then there is the story of two empty orange eggs. Emma swears that she didn't eat them and I swear that they weren't there last night. She ends up crying because I "hurt her feelings" by accusing her of eating them. Now I know how my Mom felt when I snuck into the Christmas presents when I was little.

Shortly after breakfast the girls got dressed and went outside to play. And the played outside the rest of the day! It was heavenly! Don had gotten the girls some sand for the sand turtle and they had a blast. Well, once Maddie got in trouble a couple of times for throwing sand. And no matter how many times you say "keep the sand in the sandbox" they don't. But, other then that...

One of our household projects for this year is to put some finishing touches around the swingset. So, Don and I decided to start stablizing the railroad ties so that we would have a load of river rock delivered later in the week. Originally when we put the swingset up, we thought that mulch would be enough, but over the past two years it is more like mud and a litter box for the cats. While working on the railroad ties, we had to stop to cut down the hedge apple tree's new growth. This tree will not die! We had a tree guy come last year to kill it, and instead it started growing new branches WITH THORNS! They are unlike anything that I have ever seen. So we had to get rid of the thorns so we could get to the remaining railroad ties. I hate how one project ends up leading to more projects! Well, the thorns are gone, for now and we got three of the railroad ties secure.

I had been promising the girls that we would go to the park to feed the ducks. So, while Don was cleaning up all of the tools from our projects, I drove the girls out to Old Washington. They were so excited about feeding the ducks. And guess what...there were two!!!! We had so much bread there was no way that those two ducks were going to be able to eat it. So we also fed the sparrows and black birds, and whatever else came along to find the bread. It was kind of a disappointment, and I am glad that I decided not to take my camera.

When we got home, I started peeling potatoes for french fries and Don warmed up the grill to fix some steaks. We were able to eat outside (which we all love) and talked about our fun day. Then it was time to clean up the dishes and the toys and take baths. While giving the girls a bath, I noticed that Emma's hands got sunburned. That poor kid, she will forever have to put on sunscreen, and I didn't think that her hands would be a problem. Well that is what I get for thinking...We finally had a quiet house by 8:30. Yeah!

I will go through my Easter pictures today, and hopefully post some later. I am still enjoying the task of going through all of the Disney pictures. I am just about done with the first three days of our trip. Now, only four more to go... ugh!