"Twas the Night Before Easter!

"Twas the day before Easter.....and we realized that we hadn't gone to see the Easter Bunny or color Easter eggs!

So today we went and waited in line at the mall and this was the best pic we could get.  This is the first year that me or Chuck are not in the picture.  Evie would not go near the bunny but she was willing to stand near him.  Presley decided not to smile.  It's still cute.

 

The line actually wasn't too bad but we had fun taking pics with the flowers.

 

As soon as we got home, we knew our eggs had cooled and were ready to be colored.

 

This was the first year that Evie and Presley were totally into it.  

 

They were all about it.  We went through 36 eggs in about 2 minutes.

 

Here's the pro in action.  She as showing the little ones what to do.

 

They chose not to listen however. They wanted to do it their way.

 

We even had a kit that came with a little eyedropper so that was fun.

 

Coloring eggs was so much fun for them!  Another Easter tradition to continue every year.

 

Chuck and I did manage to write some names on the eggs with crayon so that when they were colored, it would show up.  We made some for all of us, Millie and Hazel, Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Amy, and of course the Easter Bunny!  We figured he may be hungry by the time he hopped to our house.

 

These eggs were made with love.

 

After that, it was time to decorate some foam eggs.  Whoops!  Forgot I even had these leftover from last year.

 

My kids had a ball with them too.  We made all kinds of eggs for all kinds of people.  And again, we made some to leave for the Easter Bunny!

 

Gracie even made one for Evie.  And we didn't even ask her to.  She chose to do that all on her own.  Love!

 

We also had to go outside and plant our jelly beans.  Last year they grew into lollipops.

 

We will have to check tomorrow morning and see if they really were magic!

 

We came inside and watched the Charlie Brown Easter movie and headed to bed.

And let me tell you, these kids were so excited that the bunny is coming tonight that they would not go to sleep. Chuch actually put a recorder in there and taped them talking about the Easter Bunny.  It is so cute.  Of course Gracie was bossing the little ones around.  Evie said "I don't think the Easter Bunny is going to come." And then Gracie said "No, he's not if we don't go to sleep." 

Eventually they did fall asleep.  After I told them I would call the Easter Bunny.  And then after I told them I saw him hopping down the road and he wouldn't stop unless they were sleeping.  And that was at 9:30.

Hoppy Easter!