Easter Egg Hunt

Our community does an Easter egg hunt for the kids every year. My girls loved it this year! They were so excited for this and had been talking about it for several weeks. The egg hunt for Brooklyn's age group was first. Daddy helped Brooklyn find the golden egg while we waited for it to start. Once they said "go", Aunt Tasha helped Brooklyn run to the golden egg. There are so many people and kids that the egg hunt only lasts for about a minute. She seemed to get the idea of picking up the eggs and prizes this year. Last year she just stood there and watched.

While some of us were over with Brooklyn finishing up her egg hunt, Kyia and Grandma were waiting for her age group to start. As they were walking to find a spot, look what they spotted.

Yep, the golden egg right in front of her with no one around. Everyone was at the other end of the field. She waited for them to start and off she went. She was so excited!

The girls were able to trade in there golden egg for a prize and this is what they got:

I'd say they made out pretty good! When we got home, we dyed easter eggs. I decided to try it a little different this year. I saw a tutorial on dying them with silk and had to try it. I think they turned out really good! They're almost too pretty to eat.

I went to the Goodwill, picked up some 50 cent ties and wrapped them up. The uglier the tie the better I say.

The girls loved unwrapping them to see how the design was going to turn out.

All of our finished eggs. I'll have to do this again next year!

Pickin' Strawberries

Last week I took the girls to go pick some strawberries. The best part was you could eat as many as you wanted off the vine, which the girls took full advantage of. We had a lot of fun and after almost two hours, the girls still didn't want to leave. We filled up our strawberry box and went home with red stained hands and clothes. We love going to these pick your own fruit farms! Braxton decided that he wanted to be held the entire time we were there and I forgot by baby bjorn so I didn't do much picking but it was a lot of fun to watch the girls and spend time with them.

On our way to the strawberry field.

I think they ate more than they actually picked!

(I'm not sure what brooklyn decided to put together and wear on her head but she didn't want to take it off)

So many strawberries to choose from.

On our way home. If you look closely, you can see the strawberries all over Brooklyn's face and shirt.

April Fools

I really fooled my girls this year. I even fooled Mike for that matter. I decided I would make these for dinner:

and then we had this for dessert.

My family was shocked that I would give them cupcakes for dinner, but when they actually starting eating them they quickly found out that they weren't cupcakes at all but meatloaf with mashed potatoes as the frosting. Kyia is not a fan of meatloaf but these she would eat. I guess its all in how it looks. When it came to dessert, they were equally as surprised. What looked like mashed potatoes with gravy, chicken fingers and peas and carrots, was actually ice cream with carmel, cinnamon twists and orange and green tootsie rolls. Pretty tricky huh?