More Easter fun

This year Ally picked out a Tie-Dye Easter Egg kit. It was interesting and messy. We did 1 dozen with that and 1 dozen with the traditional solid colors

 

After egg dying – Ally and Grandma went to Ally’s room and played L.eapster for a while. I just love this picture of the 2 of them lying down on Ally’s bed side by side.

Grandma Debbie and I made Peep Roadsters – it was a blast! and so cute

After dinner we had a jelly bean contest – who could guess the flavor.  One person would close their eyes and another would select a jelly bean, feed it to the closed eye person. Then the one eating had to guess the flavor.

Visit from Grandma Debbie & Poppy

Grandma Debbie & Poppy came to visit for Easter. They spent all day on Good Friday with Ally, since Becky and I had to work. Lots of fun was had by all, including a 2/12 hour game of Monopoly, won by Poppy of course!

Catan Jr is another favorite game – that was played Thursday night when they arrived, and then on Friday all 3 of them were happy for movie night!

 

Ally and I bought a 1000 piece puzzle for them to do. As it turns out it was a little tricky, even for puzzle masters Debbie, Dave, Becky and Ally.  Thursday night Ally was so excited to start the puzzle she had a hard time getting to sleep. But on Friday morning her excitement (pictured above) quickly wore off with the difficulty of the puzzle.

 

Saturday we went to our local park for a community Easter event – there was a bouncy house and an egg hunt.

Fun at the park and silly faces for a family picture.

Then it was time for the egg hunt.

We all agreed it was not really a “hunt” more like a gather – the eggs were literally spread out on the grass to grab.

But Ally had fun

And was delighted to open up the eggs at home and see what she got.

This is as far as we got on the puzzle.

Easter Bunny Play Date

Last year we ran in to Ally’s friend W.ill.ow at the mall and the girls got their picture taken together with the Easter Bunny. Ally asked to do it again this year.

They were so excited! Left is before, and right is after – with their Bunny masks.

Lovin’ the Easter Bunny!

We went out to lunch, and Ally had cheese pizza and a scoop of ice cream for dessert – she was so silly trying to fit the entire scoop in her mouth at once!

It was a fun afternoon, for moms and daughters.

Easter Prep 2013

Holidays are a pretty big thing for us. I like any excuse to get crafty, surprisingly Becky is not such a fan of my Holiday-crafting. I think she prefers long lasting projects, but I prefer the short-termness of the holidays.

A bit of internet time on Pinterest showed me how to make your own plastic egg garland:

So I made the ones above to hang in our living room.

Then it was time to trade out the Valentine theme on Ally’s tree to one for Easter. It has glitter egg ornaments, carrots, butterflies and the tree topper is a large Styrofoam glitter egg, that Becky drilled a hole into so it would work as a topper!

We’re hosting 4 other families from our neighborhood group for an Easter / Spring Potluck dinner and egg hunt. So of course we are working on more decorations:

This is a sample of eggs Ally has colored (decorated with crayon) I love the top left – it’s a camping theme – tent, fire, stars and Ally. She’s still working on her spelling of Happy Ester!

As if you needed more proof of how much Ally loves peeps:

Then this afternoon we made edible bird nests:

I melted butterscotch chips and Ally broke pretzel sticks into small pieces. Then we mixed them together, to coat the pretzels and shaped the mixture into nests. Once the the nest was made we put eggs on it.

Of course some were topped with Chicky Peeps!

Eating a peep with mama!