Easter Morning

On Easter morning we awoke to find that the Easter Bunny had left quite a mess around our house and yard. Below is a photo of our back yard. The bunny had eggs every where and had left foot prints through the house.

You can see below that the bunny took the eggs down from the tree and filled them with treats for the boys.

When Austin woke up on Easter morning he was greeted by a note from the Easter Bunny that insturcted him to follow his foot prints and trail of carrots and eggs he left behind to find his Easter gifts.

The bunny also left some items for Austin to put on...As seen below he had to wear the rabbit ears.

Austin was too funny about the mess the bunny left behind-he did not like the idea of a mess.

Below Hudson is hot on the trail that the bunny left behind.

Daddy is determined to find what that silly rabbit left for his boys.

Looks like Hudson did a good job following the tracks to his basket.

Austin did not know what to think about the bunny leaving his and Bo-Bo's easter baskets in his house outside.

Look at my happy boy!

Austin had a blast finding all the eggs that the Easter bunny had left hidden for him. He found them in all kinds of crazy places.

After the boys had there fun we headed inside for some yummy and "themed breakfast" that I had tried to make. I could not find the bottles that I needed to squert the pancake batter onto the pan to make them perfect so I had to come up with an alternitive. As you can see below they didnt turn out quite as cute as I hoped but they were still cute little bunnies.

I think over all the boys had a great Easter! Hopefully we will have many more to come and they will have great memories.

It was the night before Easter...

This year I decided I really wanted to try and start some holiday traditions that we can carry on throughout the years with the boys. Austin is getting a little older and getting into each of the holidays more than before. For Easter we did the Resurrection Eggs to help the boys learn the true meaning of the holiday. We also started some Easter Eve traditions. We had the boys take some carrots outside and leave them for the Easter Bunny. Santa gets cookies so its only fitting that the bunny gets carrots.

I gave Austin the carrots to carry outside and he decided he better taste them and make sure they were good enough for the Easter Bunny!
Austin made sure that the carrots were placed just right around the tree out front.

After the carrots were all out we hung some empty eggs in the tree in hopes that the bunny would take them down and fill them with fun & yummy treats.

Hudson had fun helping too!

Hudson made sure that all of our eggs were ready to go in the tree.

Here is Austin showing off all of his hard work.

Weekly happenings 4/10-4/16/11

We had a pretty busy and eventful week around our house this week. Last Sunday we did our normal errands for the week along with getting Brad ready to go out of town for a few days this week. Hudson was all smiles as usual this week. He is trying to get some new teeth so he has been a little clingy. We made a stop at Sam's Club and Austin found this super cute new play house. He loved playing in there. Brad and I actually had to take turns staying with him while he played while the other one of us did our shopping. I would love to have this for our little guys. Heck I think the dogs could even use it for a dog house.

After our Sam's trip Austin insited that we go to our Mexican restaurant for chips and cheese. We have also recently started letting him have sprite when we eat out. When the server came to take our order Austin quickly spoke up and ordered "coke (aka sprite) and ice cream".

We also let Hudson check out the crayons for the first time while we were there. He actually made contact with the paper for about 5 seconds before they ended up in his mouth.

Austin has been trying so hard to give up his naps! I would be OK with him not napping if he didn't really need the sleep-but he still does. If he goes without a nap he turns into a grump-o-sourous around 5:30 or 6pm. On Tue. afternoon he fell asleep on the sofa in the playroom with his hand in the popcorn bag.

Hudson has become quite the little daredevil recently. He climbs on everything and thinks he should stand up on it once he gets there.

Austin has started letting Hudson in his room to play some, he has even been letting him play with his beloved "trash trucks".

We finally had some trees planted in our back yard this weekend. Since Brad was out of town some this week for work- Austin was "man of the house" while daddy was gone. So he made sure to water the new trees really good for daddy. He also told me that he was going to "take me on a date some where far away".

Here is my crazy boy standing on something again that is not meant to be stood on.

With Easter coming next weekend we have been doing some fun Easter activities. (I am really wanting to start some family traditions that we can follow for years to come). Here we are starting our Resurrection Eggs-which will teach the boys the true meaning of Easter.

We will be doing the eggs like an Advent and opening one new egg each night for the 12 days leading up to Easter (along with the new egg we will be re-reading and opening the eggs from the nights before).

Here is Hudson wearing Austin's Easter basket on his head like a hat.

And here is Austin wearing the basket as a hat.

Mom's Group Easter Egg Hunt

This morning the boys and I hosted our local moms groups Easter egg hunt at the park. It was so fun to see all the kids hunting for there eggs. Below is a photo of some of the mommies with babies under 2 yrs old. This is a group photo of the over two kids that were at the egg hunt. I cant believe we were able to get them all to sit on this rock so we could actually get a photo. Austin and I made festive rice crispy treats: we had treats in the shape of eggs with sprinkles (these were Austin's favorite), mini-baskets with jelly bean eggs on top as well as bird nest with peeps and jellybean eggs on top

Here is Hudson hunting for eggs for the 1st time. He was picking them up and throwing them like balls. He also would get them and try to put them in his mouth. In the below photo he had an egg in his hand and was taking off down the side walk.

Hudson found one!

He was so happy and proud of him self

Now we did a little better of a job hiding the eggs for the bigger kids.

Austin had a lot of fun hunting and finding them and he was really good at it to. I had to make him stop finding them so other kids could get there share.

Once he was done he had to open them all up and see what kind of treasures were inside waiting on him.

Here is Hudson towards the end kicked back in his stroller.

I have to admit this was a crazy play date for me. It was the 1st time that we had been to the park with Hudson walking so I now had two boys to keep up with. It also didn't help that Hudson thinks he is part monkey and should climb on everything-he was walking up the slides and discovered he could climb the stairs and get on the playground. Needless to say I was a busy lady this morning trying to keep up with my kiddos!

Easter Fun

Brad went out of town this week for work so Grandma-ma & Papa came to help us! On Wen. we backed some bunny cupcakes to help celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday. Austin had fun helping with the cupcakes (he really enjoys helping me in the kitchen recently). Of course he also enjoyed tasting the cupcakes. Once they were all decorated and cute we took some over to our neighbors and then Austin took some to school for his Easter party, and we also sent some home with Grandpa for him and Grandma.

Some photos of Grandma-ma and Austin decorating the cupcakes!


Hudson helping out with decorating the cupcakes.

We made these cute little "carrots" for Austin's friends at school.

cute easter egg idea

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