Easter Weekend

On our way home from our trip downtown on Saturday, we had planned to go somewhere so Jess or I could run into a store and secretly buy stuff for Easter baskets for the kids, but we were so tired we decided we'd go back out later.  Then I took a long nap, and went to Walmart for stuff to dye eggs.  Then we were going to go to Target for the stuff for Easter baskets, but we realized it was almost 9 pm, and we still had to hardboil eggs and make the dye and everything.  So obviously we decided we'd have to wait and get their Easter surprises in the morning.  Thankfully Paige happened to mention that the Easter Bunny doesn't come at night, he comes "in the morning while you're out somewhere".  Ha.  Don't know why she thinks that, but it helped us out. 

So we went home and dyed eggs.  First we were boiling our eggs, and also a bunch of veggies and fruits to make our dye.  Jess told me "I hope you realize I love you.  I'm participating in making NATURAL EGG DYE."  Ha.  It's true.  Some of the dye turned out great, but some of it was totally ineffective.  We ended up cheating and using the dye tablets for yellow and green, because our natural versions just weren't doing it.
 
 
Some of the natural dyes turned out more faint and pastel, but the ones that turned out darker were kind of mottled, but I thought they were cool looking.  Here are Paige's eggs:

 Cason's eggs:

 (he wasn't super careful handling his, which is why he only has 7 left)

My favorite is this one of Cason's, which he did with the grape juice dye-supposed to be purple but turned out kind of purply grey and kind of marbled with black and white.

 Neely's eggs:

So in the morning we headed for Target, to sneak in for their surprises.  Unfortunately Target turned out to be closed, so we searched for a Walmart.  Then the kids wanted to come in, which complicated things.  Jess took them to look at toys, while I ran around collecting little treats and toys and baskets for them.  Then I stashed it in a certain aisle, traded places with Jess, while he went to pay and hide it in the car, and THEN he came back and got us to leave.  Somehow we managed to do it without getting caught.  :)

We did just as poor a job planning the rest of our Easter too.  We planned to take them to a big Easter Hunt, but realized on Saturday night that they had all happened on Saturday.  :(  The only one on Sunday was at the zoo, and was only for ages 2-5.  :(  We had also done NO shopping for a nice meal.  We decided to just take the kids to a pizza place for lunch, which was fine and we knew the kids would love it.  But then we stepped inside, and it was totally empty except for us, and I was struck by the fact that we were in a pizza place on Easter, AND had no plan for our dinner either.  You bet, I started crying right in our booth.  Haha.  I think I might really be pregnant.  Poor Jess.  He took us right to a grocery store, where he did the best he could finding the stuff to make us as nice an Easter dinner as possible on short notice. 

We came home, played with bubbles,

had OUR Easter egg hunt,


 
and had our dinner, and our Easter turned out great.  We WILL be better planners next year though.