Egg Hunt 2013/Breakfast

The Saturday before Easter our church holds an "egg-citing" annual Easter egg hunt and breakfast. The pastors all cook the breakfast and it was very yummy! This was only our second time going so it is a fairly new Easter tradition for us!

After the families eat, there are several crafts for the kids to do.

Amelia remembered the balloons from last year and asked for a heart bracelet balloon. The church takes balloon making for the kids very serious and even holds a balloon training! ha I didn't go because there is no way I could make anything out of a balloon trust me, I have tried! It is harder than it looks!

When we went back to a family dinner a few weeks later at church......she wanted to go get a balloon. I guess she thinks every time we eat at the church, she needs to have a balloon!

My very intense artist once again being intense artist!

 It is amazing to me how happy a balloon can make a child! I just heard there is a helium shortage......not sure if it is true or not but I just might have to stock up if it is true!

The egg hunts are held at the same time. Amelia went with the younger kids and Amanda went with the older kids. Last year, I went with Amelia and took pics, so this year I went with Amanda and took pics!

The pastors stuffed the eggs for us with stickers, toys and of course candies. I love how involved they are all, even with the little things like stuffing eggs!

 

The church has a bunch of land behind it that I had never actually been to. It was a great place to hide eggs!

I wonder if she will still think this is fun next year? She is growing up sooo fast!

OK mom, the hunt is over now, so put the camera away!

 

 Amelia had a blast finding eggs!

 

Afterwards, the girls opened their eggs and gave the eggs back so they could use them next year. This wasn't mandatory but sure was nice! I can't stand dealing with all the plastic eggs lying around after Easter so I was thrilled!

That night we decided to try a restaurant that we have never been to but have recently heard raves about from three different friends. The food was delicious!!

We really enjoyed our nice family dinner out. We usually go out before the crowd hits so we get better service and can get baths and stuff ready for church the next day. If we had waited an hour, a nanny arrives at this restaurant and watches the kids, feeds them etc in another room for you so the hubby and wife could have a date out of it.....We really like to eat as a family but this might be a fun thing to try some day when those precious girls needs some time away from their mean parents! It was the perfect ending to a nice family day!

Coloring Eggs 2013

I thought I would spice up the egg coloring this year and so I bought a new stamping kit........and this other painting kit........

 

The girls had fun but we decided next year we would go back to the old way of coloring eggs........it was sooo messy!

See those intense faces?

They both love art but look so intense while working. It really cracks me up!

This is what I won't be buying again!

Final product. The process was fun.......Amanda doesn't like the yoke part of the egg, and Amelia only likes the yoke, so it works out perfectly for us when it comes to hardboiled eggs! I hope they will still want to do this when they are grown up because I would miss this tradition!

Go Cart Fun?

 Amelia had another "first" of her lifetime and I doubt she will do this again anytime soon! ha

Getting into the kiddie go-cart....

 Smile for mom, dad, and Amanda!

 Off she tried to go..........this is when we realized that the cars were the type the child had to push and hold the accelerator down the entire time AS WELL AS STEER! YIKES!!!!!!

 Poor girl got stuck when she ran into the tires!

This is when she started crying because she ran into someone and the little boy yelled at her! (He ran into her earlier and she just smiled at him!) I guess girls just take car accidents better than boys?) I wouldn't know.......unless, you count running into the garage a few times while backing out the car! (I am sooo thankful for an understanding husband!)

 

I think the attendant was super relieved that she didn't want to go around the track again! He was nice but I could tell he took the job thinking it would be easy and he could just watch the kids go around.........which was probably the case until he met our sweet Amelia! Poor thing!

 I think she was thrilled to get out!

She told me she kept getting stuck!!!!!!!!!

Get me out of here! I can't get out soon enough! I guess hubby will have to teach her to drive one day because she clearly inherited my driving genes!