Easter Overload

I've got a good excuse this time!!! Sunday night while at the Ashton's I started feeling pretty sick and I don't think I even slept again until Friday night. Poor Dustin didn't get much sleep either with me being up 24-7. Anyway, I was completely out of it all week and I'm not even sure if I was making sense half the time. Dustin would ask a simple question and I would start crying.

Luckily, the kids still got some Easter fun in until I felt better.

Wednesday: Nate's pre-school Easter Egg Hunt
Thursday: Nate and Sadie got to have a little Easter Egg hunt at Jill's and then Ellie and I made some Easter cookies
Friday: Our annual Easter Egg Hunt with all of our friends Sadie got the whole concept this year, so she was fun to watch run from egg to egg and then Nate and Ellie are self-sufficient these days, so I would say it was the perfect hunt.

Saturday: Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Our numbers were definitely few -- probably because it was soaking wet.

I heard it raining all night, so when Jill called at 8 because it was raining, I suggested we cancel it all together. Well, only Jill could convince us to do it anyway. She's just got such a positive attitude about everything that you think, "You're right! Breakfast and an Easter Egg Hunt in the rain would be perfect!" And it really was. We live in Arizona after all, how often do we get to do anything in the rain?? It was freezing cold and the kids were soaked, but they had so much fun jumping in puddles and playing in the mud.
We spent the rest of the day getting the house cleaned after my week of zombie-hood, dyed Easter Eggs -- surprisingly less work and more fun than I thought it would be -- homemade pizza picnic dinner while we watched Wall-E and then the kids and I made banana bread for breakfast or a midnight snack if you were Dustin and me.

Sunday: Baskets and an Easter Egg Hunt in the house. It was kind of sad filling Ellie's Easter basket with a purse and clothes. No toys for her this year. Sadie finally got her Dora Backpack. Dustin bought it a few weeks ago and Sadie FOUND it early, stinker. When Dustin took it away from her she cried and cried for days. She'd just be sitting there and randomly say, "Where's my Dora present?" I couldn't believe she wouldn't just forget about it. "Is it my birthday? Do I get my present now?" FINALLY today was the day.
At breakfast I gave each of the kids a special egg from Mom and Dad. Sadie got some hair clips, Ellie got earrings and Nate got. . . a BAKUGAN! Nate has been dying for a Bakugan for about 6 months. I think every other boy on our street and in our circle of friends has one. I thought they seemed kind of pointless, so I refused to get any. Then a few months ago Nate started making his own Bakugan. He takes gum wrappers or chocolate foil wrappers and rolls them up into a ball and "battles" with them. After finding them all over my washing machine from being shoved in pockets and never taken back out, I decided that maybe I'd spring the whole $5 and buy him one. Totally worth it just for the sheer number of "thank-you's" I've gotten today. Nate will run into a room just to say, "Thank you for buying me a Bakugan."

Next on the list: Church and dinner with the Wells clan. Happy Easter! HE IS RISEN! Oh and since everyone has been asking me -- Ellie's headband is from Target. Can you believe it?? I know Lynette's little girl has some adorable ones from J Crew just like it, but I got Ellie's in the adult accessory section for $7.