Easter Activities

The Saturday before Easter, we had a lot of fun doing all of our Easter activities and eating lots of candy!  Our morning started off with coloring easter eggs, literally.  This year instead of dying eggs, we colored on the eggs with crayons as soon as the eggs came out of the hot water.  The crayon melts onto the egg and creates a vibrant color and cools hard.  Much less messy and even more involved for a 3 year old with little patience.

 After we colored eggs and Hadley woke up from her nap, we ventured outside to the Easter egg hunt put on by the complex.  There were about 10 kids that showed up and probably 200 eggs.  Everyone went home with way too many eggs.  They also had adult eggs with gift cards in them.  Mike and I each got a $10 itunes gift card so we all left with a little something in our pockets.

 I just love the look on Hadley's face when she found her first egg.  She was even more excited when she found the candy inside!

 Allie found probably 40 eggs, overflowing her basket.  Mike had to store a bunch in his pocket because she kept spilling all of hers. 

 Luckily, we got the girls to stop eating their candy long enough to eat some berries with whipped cream; a little better for you, right?

 They also played some fun games to work off some of that candy.

Happy Easter!

This year for easter we were able to focus more on the real reason of Easter, the resurrection of Christ.  Allie loved watching the new bible videos that the church produced and kept asking question Him.  It was great to focus on Christ and now she talks about it all the time and reenacts the videos all the time.  I love the simple faith and understanding of children and how they seem to focus on the things that really matter.

Fairy wonderland

We had some fun this weekend. Rachel found another princess dress that we had lost in the deep dark recesses of the closet. So now we have a Cinderella dress for Hadley too! 

(Just what I wanted, more dresses and princess play clothes) 

Since we found Hadley's dress, Allie wanted to play too. So she got all dolled up in her Snow White digs and wanted to get some sweet pictures.

We almost got some pictures where they were both smiling. 

Standing out back by the fence looking regal. 

(I don't know how anyone ever got kids in pictures with film, it is impossible and I can throw away about 50 pictures for every half decent shot)

Sitting down by the fence. 

They look so happy here. Allie loves dressing up, but Hadley took a little more convincing.

Trying to escape the picture taking. 

(Hadley is more like me and doesn't want to sit still for pictures)

Back inside the house, Allie wanted to change and be twins Here are my two little Cinderellas!

Another one where they are both smiling!

We had a good time playing dress up princess. Hope you have enjoyed the evidence.

Rodeo Houston 2012

This year for the rodeo, we cowgirls ventured out on our own and had a heyday not once, but twice!  We went on value Wednesdays so it only cost $5 total for all 3 of us to get in AND we got to ride the free shuttle bus one of the days, can you say cool or what!  

The first stop of the day?  Pig racing!  We got a seat right up front and watched those little porkers race for an oreo.  Allie thought it was awesome, Hadley just liked looking at everyone cheering on their pig.

Another favorite for Allie was the cow milking demonstration.  Allie's love for milk is quite strong, so seeing where it actually comes from really made an impact on her.  Now she points out where the udders are on all of her barnyard animals in her farm.  

If seeing a cow being milked wasn't cool enough, she also got to pet a cow, and her calf.

I know this is totally unrelated, but this guy has the coolest wheelchair/tank!  I guess if you are working on a farm with mud and such, you need something with a little more grit.  We thought it was pretty cool.

Now that Allie learned where milk comes from, she wanted to try it out herself, on a fake cow with plastic udders....  she still thought it was awesome.

Can't go to the rodeo without seeing the clowns

They have a kids activity where you go through the whole process of feeding chicks, growing/picking your own veggies, getting wool from sheep, milk cows and pick peaches and corn, then take them to market to sell and get a dollar at the end where you trade it in for a snack.  I think we ended up doing this like 3 times this year because Allie just loved it so much.  We also ran into our friends the Schurdells there while picking carrots.

Maybe Allie has a future in tractor driving?  It might help to be able to touch the pedals first.

Nothing like ending the day with cotton candy!  One day I am going to own a cotton candy machine so I can make it any time of day.... yum!

We also were able to go a week later with Mike so we could spend our carnival tickets and ride the carousal, play some games and win 2 bears (but only because she was cute, we really didn't actually win), eat carnival food, pet the crazy animals in the petting zoo, and the absolute favorite- riding on the ferris wheel.  Yeehaw!

Odds and ends

We have not been the best at updating the blog over the last few months. So here are a few random pictures to explain some of the things we have been up to recently.

Allie and Hadley both got nice new church dresses. They are perfect for easter, and just came a little early. The girls were excited to get new threads! 

This was what Allie did one day when she was being a little too quiet. She was playing nicely in her room, and when we came to see what she was up to we found almost all her toys in Hadley's crib. Then for extra fun she climbed in with all the toys.

This is just a cute picture of Hadley. 

I liked it, so I thought I would share.

Here is Hadley's new fun thing. She is trying so hard to start walking and likes to use the laundry basket to help her walk around. She is getting close.