Colorado (part 3)

We drove down to Colorado in snow, but it was warm and sunny by Sunday, so we could have Easter festivities outside.

The girls got new swimsuits, dresses and shoes in their baskets.

We all worked hard to help Grandma get Easter dinner ready.

We had a fabulous weekend. The only thing missing was Chris. Our trips aren't the same without him.

Colorado (part 2)

Saturday was Gavin's birthday party, so we drove down to Nate and Amy's house for that.

He had a fun Star Wars themed party and the kids had fun fighting with light sabers.

Molly was a bit young for the game, so we snuggled on a bench and watched.

That night we went and hung out with our friends, the Winn's. We love being able to see them since they moved to Denver.

Colorado for Easter (part 1)

The girls Spring Break coincided with Easter this year, so we drove down to Colorado for a long weekend.

On our way out of town, we picked up Caitlin's new glasses. She is just a little near sided. She never complained about it, but now she will be able to see the board better! She looks great in them.

Only a true Wyoming resident will get this picture.

The gal who use to do my hair in Rock Springs, now lives in Loveland, so she did my hair and gave Caitlin and Ashlee major cuts. Its what they wanted!

The girls wasted no time playing and G&G Will's house.

I tried the panoramic thing, and it cracks me up because Ashlee and Molly are a bit off.

And we dyed Easter eggs.

Our Easter

At our house this year, the girls each got an Easter basket from Chris and I, and the Easter Bunny hid some candy filled eggs outside for them to find.

I made a scavenger hunt for them to find their baskets.  It took them back and forth and up and down the stairs about 6 or 7 times before finally finding their baskets in the dryer. They loved every second of it, and even put all the eggs back to repeat the hunt later in the morning.

                                 

                                                    

                               

In their baskets they had a headband, new flip-flops, a chocolate bunny, and new skirt and shirt and a personalized plate.  (I had a personalized plate when I was little and I LOVED it).  Molly had the shirt and skirt, plate, eggs filled with M&M's (yum!) and a watering pot.

I made the skirts using this tutorial.  They wanted to try them on right away and then wore them the whole rest of the day, so I guess they liked them!

After finding their baskets they headed into the backyard to find the eggs the bunny hid.

It was a beautiful day, so we snapped a few pictures outside before going to church.

Happy Easter!

Egg Dying

Today we dyed our Easter eggs! I thought that there are usually 6 colors, but ours only had 5.  I guess you really only need the primary colors.

We told them they could each only do 6.  That way Ashlee couldn't dye all of the really quick like she did last year. Ashlee's approach this year was to keep them in the dye as long a possible to get the richest color she could.  Caitlin took her time coloring pictures on each of her eggs before dying.

We ended up with a cartoon full of very colorful eggs!

Easter

We had a great Easter at home this year, made even better because Annie came to visit!!!

Caitlin and Ashlee love when Annie comes and this time Ashlee even seemed to get a little confused at who was who.  Even today she told me that I look like Annie, which I do.  (Although I don't think we look as much a like right now since I have a bunch of baby weight to lose and she doesn't) 

Our egg dying went like this

2:02pm start dying easter eggs

2:04pm Caitlin says "Ashlee you can't dye them all!!!

Ashlee dyed probably 12 of the 18eggs in just 2 minutes!  She wanted those eggs in and out of the color as fast as she could do it.  It was a fun, albeit short, event. 

Annie played outside with the girls and went on walks with them.  This instance Ashlee was running down to block to see our friends who live on the corner.  She would carry the shovel in one hand, then switch to the other hand once she was tired, then carry it over her head with both hands when she was tired again.

Another time she was riding her scooter around the block and she stopped and told Annie that her leg was tired.  Annie told her to switch legs.  So she did, and then she said she would switch arms too.  So then she was riding her scooter with her arms crossed to the opposite handlebars.  We never have a dull moment with her!

 Caitlin is awesome at riding her bike, and she would do it every waking hour if she could.

All the Easter Baskets waiting to be looked at.  After Molly was born we got some beautiful flowers inside this duck.  I didn't have a basket for Molly, so she got to have the duck as her basket this year.

Caitlin and Ashlee got sandals from Grandma and Grandpa Bishop and were so excited to wear them to church.

We have been 2 different places that had mustaches to buy from the 25cent machine in the past 2 weeks, and both times Ashlee has asked Chris if she could please have a mustache.  So they got them in their Easter baskets.  Ashlee wasn't that thrilled about sticking it to her face and the pain or pulling it back off, so I think she is over her mustache fetish now.

 Finding Easter eggs.  We didn't get new dresses this year, so they wore their dresses from last year.

Chris and Molly were fighting head colds, so we had a quiet Easter dinner at home by ourselves.  It was delicious.  Caitlin loved the ham most of all (well, maybe 2nd to the rolls) and Ashlee loved the deviled eggs.