Happy Easter!!

Ohhhhh wow!  What a great day we had!!  I'm sooooo happy with how it all worked out this year.  We started our day by going to the 7:00 church service (we left the house about 6:20 to make sure we could get a seat) but what we discovered in the mean time is that the first service of the day is SOOOOO much less chaotic trying to get in because you don't have people still trying to get out.  It was wonderful!!!

 

They started a new process during the Christmas season that the service in the church starts on the hour and then they have a second service start at 5 minutes after the hour in the fellowship hall so that people have time to find a seat!  It's working beautifully.

It was a wonderful service then when we got home, something happened........

 

The Easter bunny must have come while we were gone because the front was speckled with eggs and left a basket for Mikayla on the porch.

 

 

She saw the eggs and started screaming LET ME OUT OF THIS CAR!!!  EEEEEKKK LET ME OUT!!!!!!

 

So she was beyond thrilled!

 

Such a poser.

She smiled for me for a bunch of pictures, I didn't even have to bribe anything other than say she can't open her basket till I get some!  LOL  (mean I know....but...I have to do what I have to do to get them)

 

 

She was SO happy!!!

 

 

 

Then we went over to my brother/sister-in-laws house for the afternoon.

 

 

I cannot believe got a group picture...first time ever I think!

 

 

The kiddos getting ready to do their egg hunt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then Mikayla said her favorite part of the day was swimming with her cousins. 

 

 

There's the big pool side...but where did they end up... crowded in the hot tub LOL - silly kids!

 

 

 

 

And then we were on our way home, this happened.... bless her little heart she was tired!!! 

 

 

We had a great day!!!  I wouldn't have changed a single thing about it!!

 

Easter Eggs!

I LOVE dying the Easter eggs!!!  I don't know what it is but MAN is it fun!!!

 

Here are our little gems lined up and ready to go!  :)

 

One of them is a trick though..... can you guess which one?

 

 

Getting ready to start! 

 

 

 

 

I LOVE the picture below!!

 

 

 

 

 

I had some NEAT kits this year.  I'm going to have to find them again one of them is more like a paint but it dries shiny, it's cool!  Another one magically turns the eggs speckled!  SERIOUSLY  SPECKLED and then it gets a band across the middle of the egg in a different color!!  I have NO idea how it does that besides simply MAGIC..... I have got to find those again!!  They rocked!

 

 

Ahhhhh there's my trick egg again..... yup, right there!

 

 

So another year of eggies have been colored.... I wish that process actually took longer than it does...maybe I'll do 3 dozen next year, surely we can do something with that many eggs LOL!  I just can't seem to help myself.

 

So back to the trick egg.... well.... it's an ongoing tradition that my mom accidentally started many years ago, that one of the eggs isn't actually boiled, it's still raw...so when the unsuspecting person goes to break open the egg to eat it... instead of a solid whack/crunch/peel...it's more of a whack/splat/awww man kind of trick.... hee hee hee hee..... I just can't help myself.

 

So hopefully HE doesn't read this before figuring out my whack/splat trick of the season ;)

 

Seder Meal at school

I was able to attend Mikayla's Seder Meal at school.  It was very good and a wonderful way to bring all of the 2nd graders together.  Her school has four 2nd grades so there were over 80 children that participated.

 

They were set up in a "U" shape and all of the kids knew exactly what to do and when to do it and so forth.

 

 

As part of the readings/prayers the kids all had cards to read their lines from. Mikayla got to read two lines.

 

 

Each one stood up and read to everyone there.  They used the microphone, they're in the big time now!

 

 

The teachers all participated in the whole event as well.

 

 

 

 

They acted out some scenes as if they were there when it all originally took place.  They were washing their hands in the picture below.

 

 

It was a really neat experience.

 

 

Our "selfie"

 

 

Here is most of her class - they were wound up after the event!!  well....wound up....wild....out of control....hyper... any of those work.  :)

 

Pink Cadillac!!

This party was designed around little girls....I LOVED this place.  Mikayla has already requested her next party to be here. 

 

Anyway what they do, is get these little girls all dolled up, the hair, the make up, the nails, the stage!!!! THE AWESOMENESS!

 

Here is what they did with Mikayla's long locks!

 

 

 

her make up!

So cute, so happy!!

 

 

Here is the whole gang

 

 

have to go with the props!

 

 

Cheating on the limbo!

 

 

 

they're all ready to go!!

 

 

 

Oh so back to the pink Cadillac....   it's not technically a pink Cadillac...but rather a PINK LIMO!!!!!

 

 

HELLO!!!!!

 

 

Serious happiness!!!  heck I want to ride in that limo!!!  The chaufer was PERFECT for his role, he played some seriously happening tunes for them!!

 

Happy Birthday Rachel!!!