Easter Eggs

Tonight we dyed eggs.  Levi picked a Pirate egg kit out of the Target ad a month ago.  He has been so excited about making pirates.  While we were doing the eggs, Levi ran around the table singing, "yo ho ho and a yo ho ho."  It was so cute and funny!

Here are the boys dying the eggs.

Ethan and I also bought a kit to make speckled eggs.  It was a good distraction while we were waiting for the pirate eggs to dry.  Here I am trying to show the boys how to "speckle" the eggs.

Here is the finished product.  The boys were supposed to give us their favorite pirate face, but only one participated!  

And then, because we just love to dress up so much, we had to get out our pirate stuff!

Here is Cale helping put the pirates together.  He did make the statement "this is the longest night ever!"  It was 10:00pm before we put the boys to bed tonight.  But I will say that this is the first year that it has not been completely stressful to color the eggs.  Plastic all the way until your kids are at least five! :-)

And now we are ready for our Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow night at Grandma's.  And for Pioneer Woman's Cherry Crisp that I am planning to make for dessert tomorrow!! Yumm!!!

Anna's first birthday

I am still trying to figure out a different model for the blog, so my pictures are a mess.  But here are a few!  This is actually the morning after the party.  I was playing dress up and Anna was playing with her new toy!

This was during the party.  Anna was not feeling well.  We think that she is getting a new tooth.  So....we had to keep her blanky close by!

I made a strawberry cake for the party and my sister in law, Hope, made the cookies.  All of it was wonderful and thankfully it is all gone now!

Posing for a family pic!

I tried to put her in the high chair to eat her cake and she was having none of it.  This picture was taken after I rescued her!

Her new dress from Nanny and Pepaw.  I may use this one for Easter instead of the one I was planning.

Over all it was a good party.  We had lots of food, family and friends.  Anna wasn't feeling good and she went to bed soon after she opened her presents.  We didn't hear from her until the next morning.  She was one tired girl!