Day 307...Easter Day

What is not to love about waking up on Easter morning to a table full of goodies? The Greeneteam had fun going through their baskets, travelling to Grandmas, eating, and getting to visit with family.  A fun Easter Day indeed!!

Maddie with her new bunny Daisy!!

We did a small photo shoot with daddy before he had to leave for work.

Four Generations!!

The Greeneteam with their Grandma!!

The team with their GG (Great Grandma) She will be 90 on the 4th of July.

Day 306... Coloring Easter Eggs

Coloring Easter Eggs was on the agenda for fun today. 

We used the basic PAAS Easter Egg Coloring kit. 

Carson's first egg was of course blue.

Kenna made an orange one to start. 

The team!! Now that the eggs have been colored the only thing left is to wait and see if the Easter Bunny comes to visit!! 

Day 305... Good Friday Cross Cake and Crosses!!

Today is Good Friday. We decided to stay home today and celebrate. We read from the Children's Bible about Jesus arriving in Jerusalem, The Last Supper, and Jesus's crucifixion. We talked after and answered questions that the kids had. We also did a little trivia to see if everyone remembered all the important details. It was a time for all of us to be so very thankful for the sacrifice Jesus made.

Maddie reading from the Children's Bible. Johns dad brought this to us on one of his visits. It was his families when John was growing up. 

We decided to do a Cross craft. I had seen an idea on Pinterest using chalk and a pattern. Some chose that and others as you can see went an entirely different way. 

Our crosses!!

We then decided to make a cross cake. 

The kids love The Cake Boss. They were excited to get started.

Carson got a piping set for Christmas. This is the first real cake he has used it on. He was so psyched to finally get to use his tools. 

Maddie working on putting the piping on. 

Carson putting on the final touches. 

Their Cross masterpiece. 

We used a chocolate box cake, and cream cheese frosting. We made a small cross pattern out of card stock. We gently placed it on the cake and used sprinkles around the edges. When we pulled the pattern off we had a small amount of icing and a tiny bit of cake come up. It was easy enough to fix with more icing. We colored some of the icing green to put around the edges. This was a very easy cake to make. The kids loved it, and I think were proud that they were doing something fun that was honoring to Jesus and the sacrifice he made so that we could be with him in Heaven. 

John 3:16

Day 300.... Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt

Grandma is our blog sponsor for day 300!!! 

Grandma is here early to celebrate Easter with us. She brought Easter Candy so we decided to have a night time egg hunt using flashlights. 

The team ready to hunt!!

Jack has found a few in the trees.

Carson counting his eggs. They each were allowed to find 22.

Lu Lu was the first one done!! 

The boys as usual came up short. Guess we will be looking for the rest of their eggs in the day light. 

Maddie looking at her loot!!

Day 295 ... Peep Smores

Tonight was an epic FAIL on fun. 

We started the evening heading to Skyzone to jump on the trampolines with the kids. On the way we were in an accident. To make matters worse it was with each other. I had driven one car, and John the other and he ended up hitting me. Crazy but  true. Thankfully we are all fine!! It was very scary and the kids were shook up but in the end we were happy to have all walked away in one piece!!

We headed home all in one car as the other was towed away. We decided to make a fun Easter treat that I had seen on Pinterest (Peep Smores)

 This had to be fun right??? 

We had fun crunching the graham crackers!@!

It sure did look cute in the jar!!

A cute jar snack to give away as a hostess treat at Easter. 

Dump it all into a bowl. Chop up the bunnies and then add  melted butter and vanilla. Press the mixture into a pan and bake.

Hmmm is this really going to be a yummy Easter Smores Bar, or will it be just a crumbly mess?? 

The result: A crumbly sweet mess. I hated to waste it so we took a small scoop and put it over some vanilla ice cream. 

A new Ben and Jerry's flavor it was not.. OH well. You win some, you lose some. Today was definitely a LOSE for the Greeneteam!!

Day 292.... Breakfast with the Easter Bunny!!

This morning we took the kids to have breakfast with the Easter Bunny at Lakeshore Mall in Gainesville. The kids had a great time.

 I love the activities that this mall puts on. They make it so fun for the kids and completely family friendly and so affordable.  Our breakfast for six was $20 and included photos with the Easter bunny, face paintings, a goody bag, balloon creations and door prize giveaways. They gave away $400 in mall gift cards and free ice creams!! FUN!! My kids loved it!! Thanks Lakeshore Mall for hosting this fun Easter breakfast!!

My pretty girls showing off their face paintings!!

Jack had a great time.. A batman logo, a rabbit balloon, and he won an ice cream door prize!!

Thanks to the wonderful balloon creations of Jeff MClure Carson now wants a balloon kit for Easter.  

Kenna with her balloon creation. 

Maddie had to give the Easter Bunny one more hug before he left!! So Sweet!!

Day 280.... Decorating for Easter

I love holidays.. I especially love decorating for them and the traditional things that come along with the big day. Easter is just around the corner. I thought we had better get decorating.  I love Easter, I love Spring, I love knowing that warm weather is here to stay for a long, long while. Tonight for fun we decorated!! 

These are Easter photos from the last 10 years. I love to look at them and see the kids with the Easter Bunny. I love seeing how much they have grown and change. It makes me smile just to see them on the shelf.  The kids are amazed every year when I pull them out. They can't believe how much different they look. 

My men heading out to find the annual Easter Egg Tree!! When I was a kid this is something my mom did with us and I have continued the tradition. I hope one day my kids will too. 

Maddie was so excited to be pulling out all the Easter goodies. 

Kenna placed all the rabbits in my buckets!! 

 

Kitchen before!! 

Kitchen after!! We don't do anything fancy just fun and spring like!! I use the same things every year just in different spots.. Total cost for transformation.. ZERO dollars!! 

My entry before!! 

My entry after!! 

We made these bunny prints on Saturday when we did the hand print crafts.. So cute.. I just love them!! Ideally I would love to frame all the little rabbits but right now the budget won't allow so I just matted them with some light blue construction paper. 


Do you have any favorite Easter traditions or decorations?? I would love to hear about them.