Easter

Easter was fun and mostly at home this year.  My birthday was actually on Easter this year but we celebrated it early to deconflict.  Here are the kids getting ready to egg hunt.

Ready for our Easter feast.

We had a nice Easter day and Easter dinner.  We all ate a whole bunch of bunny buns and other Easter goodies.

We made some baby chick treats earlier.  I got a little kit to make these from the store.

Emma was excited about this Easter basket gift she got

It reverses from chick to bunny

A day or two later we had our annual Easter egg derby.  We put a big beach towel down.  The dyed eggs perspire a bit in the fridge and sometimes the dye can come off on the carpet so the towel is for protection.   Didn't see any dye come off this year. 

We did pretty good in the sportsmanship department.  Emma cried at the end since none of her eggs made it past the 2nd round.  

We tried to cheer her up by reminding her that she won our family March Madness tournament - by a large margin.  She picked teams based on their low seed numbers (always a good strategy) and which mascot she liked the best.  She picked the correct two teams in the finals but had Gonzaga winning instead of Baylor.  She got a small Lego set as a prize for the best bracket.  Maybe I'll have her do my bracket next year.  It was cute because late in the tournament when she was soundly ahead of all of us,  I said something about how she was doing so well in the basketball tournament and she said, "Wait! This is for basketball?"

And back to eggs

Our two finalists - Matthew rolling his egg, Evil White Egg of Doom and John rolling his egg, Sunsetter.

And the winner is...MATTHEW with EVIL WHITE EGG OF DOOM!!

He wins the chocolate bunny this year, but he shared with everyone.

For spring break the kids complained that we weren't doing anything fun so the next day I invited them all to go hiking with me.  Only the two youngest wanted to go.  It was beautiful!!  But then I felt annoyed that the older ones won't even venture outside.  Scott and I decided there will be some forced family fun in our future.

John and Emma were good hikers even though I forgot most of the snacks.  This hike was about 3 miles.

Anna made Emma a crown in Elsa colors.  She sewed it by hand.

And we made some fake sushi for April Fool's Day

Anna and Emma had fun working on it together.