Our Easter morning started off in a different yet amusing way. Austyn didn't realize that anything was left in his room by the Easter Bunny. He climbed into bed with me and cuddled up. I asked him if his room was clean, and he said, it was. I insisted that we take a look just to make sure. He was a little annoyed, but humored me anyway. He opened up the door, pointed in and said, see, my room is clean. And just as he said that, he looked in and saw a basket with a shovel, rake, garden hoe, a kite, a stuffed bunny, a bunny parachuter thing and a chocolate bunny. He got this bewildered look on his face and then he shouted...MOM! SANTA BROUGHT ME GARDEN STUFF! I had to explain to him that it was Easter and that Santa actually wasn't the one who brought the gifts. He didn't care who brought him the stuff, he was just excited. He said it a few more times that day that Santa had been to visit, and then he changed it up and said he got it for his birthday!
Ryleigh, who gets out of her bed, opens the door and walks out any old time she pleases decided that this wasn't one of those days. She found her Easter Basket and she dumped everything out onto the floor and found her shiny, foil wrapped chocolate Easter Bunny. Well, apparently, our Easter Bunny didn't really think things through when he left that in a 16 month olds bedroom! She unwrapped her bunny and had a few nibbles of it before we caught her! She was so hurt that she couldn't eat chocolate for breakfast. Live and learn, right?
Taylor, the big kid of them all, just casually came out of his room, and said, Mom, the Easter Bunny brought me a bunch of stuff. Austyn, you can have my old gardening stuff because I have new ones now. He was excited, but nowhere near as excited as Austyn was.
This year, we opted to stay home for Easter rather than travel down to Mission Viejo and visit with family. We are trying to save money, not spend it, so this was our best option. We had two families over for lunch and a 200 some odd egg hunt! We had the Villasenor Family over. They used to be our neighbors but moved to a bigger house right before Mark came home from his last deployment. Jessica and I get together twice a week for play-dates and much needed adult conversation. The Moore Family also joined us. I met Cassidy last year at the Fresno Zoo while we were on a field trip. She was one of the few other parents who opted to go along with the kids and tour the zoo at her own pace. We ended up hanging out because we kept running into each other and the boys were already good friends. We had a wonderful lunch followed by the egg hunt.
It took the kids about 10-15 minutes to find all of the eggs, and even after that they were still finding them in the less conspicuous places. Each kid walked away with a basket that was overflowing with eggs. Some eggs had money, some had candy and others had little party favors. Ryleigh was the only one who didn't have an abundance of eggs.
She was a little apprehensive about it all. She walked around and looked at all of the eggs and she eventually decided to pick them up. Taylor, being the wonderful big brother he is helped her gather some eggs in her basket. His basket was full in just a couple of minutes. I had to tell him to stop and let everyone else gather the eggs. Austyn was the most enthusiastic about it all. His exciting was exhausting for some of us! lol. He was just running around yelling that he found eggs, and wow there were SO many eggs and they were all over the place!!! He is such a funny guy.
The entire day went awesome and the kids all had a blast! Here is a picture of all of the kids that participated. I say that because baby Callie, for obvious reasons (she's a baby) was the only one who didn't join in!
From Left--->Right Jason (2), Chance (7), Ryleigh (16 months), Taylor (7), Hailey (4) Austyn (3) and James (19 months)
Ryleigh, who gets out of her bed, opens the door and walks out any old time she pleases decided that this wasn't one of those days. She found her Easter Basket and she dumped everything out onto the floor and found her shiny, foil wrapped chocolate Easter Bunny. Well, apparently, our Easter Bunny didn't really think things through when he left that in a 16 month olds bedroom! She unwrapped her bunny and had a few nibbles of it before we caught her! She was so hurt that she couldn't eat chocolate for breakfast. Live and learn, right?
Taylor, the big kid of them all, just casually came out of his room, and said, Mom, the Easter Bunny brought me a bunch of stuff. Austyn, you can have my old gardening stuff because I have new ones now. He was excited, but nowhere near as excited as Austyn was.
This year, we opted to stay home for Easter rather than travel down to Mission Viejo and visit with family. We are trying to save money, not spend it, so this was our best option. We had two families over for lunch and a 200 some odd egg hunt! We had the Villasenor Family over. They used to be our neighbors but moved to a bigger house right before Mark came home from his last deployment. Jessica and I get together twice a week for play-dates and much needed adult conversation. The Moore Family also joined us. I met Cassidy last year at the Fresno Zoo while we were on a field trip. She was one of the few other parents who opted to go along with the kids and tour the zoo at her own pace. We ended up hanging out because we kept running into each other and the boys were already good friends. We had a wonderful lunch followed by the egg hunt.
It took the kids about 10-15 minutes to find all of the eggs, and even after that they were still finding them in the less conspicuous places. Each kid walked away with a basket that was overflowing with eggs. Some eggs had money, some had candy and others had little party favors. Ryleigh was the only one who didn't have an abundance of eggs.
She was a little apprehensive about it all. She walked around and looked at all of the eggs and she eventually decided to pick them up. Taylor, being the wonderful big brother he is helped her gather some eggs in her basket. His basket was full in just a couple of minutes. I had to tell him to stop and let everyone else gather the eggs. Austyn was the most enthusiastic about it all. His exciting was exhausting for some of us! lol. He was just running around yelling that he found eggs, and wow there were SO many eggs and they were all over the place!!! He is such a funny guy.
The entire day went awesome and the kids all had a blast! Here is a picture of all of the kids that participated. I say that because baby Callie, for obvious reasons (she's a baby) was the only one who didn't join in!
From Left--->Right Jason (2), Chance (7), Ryleigh (16 months), Taylor (7), Hailey (4) Austyn (3) and James (19 months)
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