easter weekend

This weekend, we...

made tissue paper crosses

we had a movie night with dinner in the living room

we made Peeps' s'mores

we made messes

we colored eggs

we wore pajamas

we kept it simple

we took our annual family picture with an egg

we had an egg hunt (indoors...rain...yuck)

we found our eggs were filled with our lunch

we set out our baskets and carrots and went to bed

we had fun

Happy St. Patrick's Day

We met up with some cousins on the prettiest and warmest day of Spring Break and celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a picnic in the park.

We had a green lunch of spinach turkey roll-ups, grapes, pistachios, sour cream & onion chips, a mint, and Sprite.

Some thought it was delicious and some did not.

Either way, it was fun!

After lunch, we played!

Our group took up all the swings for a little while.  They were loving being together!

"Charter" chilled out by the pond for a few minutes.

While we were playing on the playground, there was a tricky leprechaun playing at our picnic.  But, he was a nice leprechaun and he left us some treasures!!!

We came back to eat a magically delicious treat that Beth had made and we found the leprechaun's treasure.

GOLD!!!

RaiNBoWS!!!

We had such a fun, yummy, magical picnic in the park.

WHaT a LuCKy DaY!!!

love day

once again, we celebrated our valentine's with a little-laid-back-family-fun-party.  grace and carter were excited for our special night.

we had our traditional romantic dinner of pepperoni pizza and pink lemonade.

it's romantic because it was a heart pizza...awww!

after dinner, things got a little wild and crazy with some valentine minute to win it style games.

then, we had a heart scavenger hunt with love missions on them...

...dancing...

...kisses...

...and wheel barrows?!?

oh goodness, another game.

"heart lava"

finally, we exchanged cards and gifts.  grace was so very excited to receive these sticker books!

and, carter added his new hot wheels to his quickly expanding collection!

i'll show you what john gave me as soon as i find the perfect place for it.  i'll give you a hint...i really love it!!! (that was a pretty bad hint, sorry!)  grace took this pic of me and my one and only valentine!   

Valentine's Stuff (after the fact)

Grace really wanted to make a Valentine craft and we decided on making a Valentine thumbprint family (similar to our reindeer family).  I framed mine and we turned Grace's into Valentine cards for all the grandparents and one for me of course.

The 14 days before Valentine's, I left Grace and Carter love notes in their mailboxes.  Grace LOVED getting her mail every morning...it was pretty special to her.  Carter LOVED ripping the notes in half and saying "I broke"...it was pretty un-special to him.

Grace saved each and every one of hers on the chalkboard.  (I had every intention of adding some valentine-sy paper medallions to my chalkboard, but as you can see that never happened.  boo.)

Grace made these Valentine's for her friends.  She said that the treat banner looks cuter when it is a little bit slanted.  Love her!

(printable found here)

She brought this "Cupid's Crunch" to school...m&m's, marshmallows, Quaker Heart cereal, and the only "x" and "o" in the entire box of alphabet crackers.

And, Carter was actually able to give his Valentine's that we made for him last year.

I couldn't stay away from those Target mugs!  So, they became teacher and Mimi Valentine gifts.