Easter Weekend

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend, I know we did! Saturday morning the kiddos and I made the tie-dye cupcakes I mentioned on Friday. These were really great to make together because the kids were able to pick and mix their own color. Jill, naturally, picked red, Aaron picked yellow, so that left me with green.

They even put all the liners in the muffin pans for me. I overheard Aaron say that he couldn't do it, it was too hard and he didn't want to, and Jill replied, "Just do it Aaron! I did it!". Sigh. Here's the finished product:

They're pretty yummy, I think we will be making these a lot.

Saturday night we dyed our Easter eggs. I baked the eggs this year, something I saw on Pinterest. I think it worked out well, I don't know, I don't eat hard boiled eggs unless they are in a super delicious Cobb salad. We had a marble egg kit, but seriously that mess was ridiculous, so we just did the plain colors. Naturally, I forgot to take a photo of the eggs after dyeing them. I did manage to snag a picture of the cupcake/frosting break after dyeing the eggs:

The kids were super excited about the Easter bunny coming and happily left him a bowl of carrots and a note. Aaron came in first thing yelling that EB came and Jill could not get over that he ate all of those carrots.

For breakfast I made Resurrection rolls. I found the recipe on Nicole O'Dell's site, it's super simple and they are really delicious. Plus, it's a great visual for helping explain Easter to the kiddos.

Church was our next stop, and for real, it was packed. The kids did super well though, considering how busy it was. I, on the other hand, did my best not to look around otherwise I would have panicked at the amount of people. Our church is still in the fundraising stage to build on our property, so we are in a temporary location inside a strip mall. We can really only fit 300 and well...we had a lot more than that on Sunday.

Don't we make an adorable family?!

After Church we headed to Mimi and Paw Paw's for lunch. I'm not even going to lie, Easter is my favorite food holiday because this girl loves ham leftovers. I promise you I will have hot ham and cheese sandwiches all week. After lunch we found out that EB stopped at Mimi and Paw Paw's house too! Paw Paw led the kids on a hunt all through the house to find the baskets.
They were so excited and couldn't wait to play with all of the fun toys EB left!

We had such a great weekend and hope you did as well!

Thanksgiving Thursday

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Another week has come and gone, so this week I am thankful for:

• Scott letting me sleep in pretty much every day this week. Granted, I think it's because he feels guilty that his snoring has returned, but I'll take it!

• Scott going back to work in a couple of weeks, not that I am counting down the days or anything.

• My kiddos being the funny little kiddos that they are.

• Everyone that is around us, supporting us.

• The press department at Food Network sending us that press release and actually responding back to us so I can interview Melissa d'Arabian. :) :) :)

• My sister Cathy majoring in journalism because I totally slept through my required journalism class at ISU. Mom or Dad if you are reading this, of course I didn't sleep through that class! I would never do such a thing! Ahem...

• Naptime, it's such a wonderful time.
  

• Coffee being sold in bulk, it's the little things in life people!

• Girls night at Devenney's on the two seven by the one nine two.

Play along with Nicole at What a Trip (and enter her giveaway on Multiples and More!).

Did you want the large?

So big news! Scott had an interview this morning at Disney and officially will be going back to work at the end of the month (cue the choirs of angels)! YAHOO!!!

Ummm now that I've stopped doing the happy dance.... We made ribs last night and they were AWESOME! Scott made up a rub and let them sit with the rub for a few hours before we cooked them in the oven. When they were fork tender (exact words my mother used when describing how to cook these) we put them on the grill with some BBQ sauce. They were amazing and the leftovers were even better today!

Other than the big interview today we had a pretty chill day. Scott and the kids vegged out while I went to Walmart. Oh the joys of Walmart. The one by our house is pretty much a tourist wonderland. I hate it, like truly hate it with the passion of a thousand warriors. When you walk in the door the aisle is lined with Disney-esque t-shirts that every tourist must stop and look at, and then proceed to scream across the store at the rest of their family something that sounds like "Hey you! What size do you want? What? HUH? Large?! WHAT?!" He said large lady give him the large and then get the heck out of my way! And forget it if you need sunblock, seriously. I do however find it humorous because 90% of the people in that aisle will buy the sunblock and only apply it once and have to return to buy aloe because they were not smart enough to buy it the first time. Sigh...tourists...

I tried to make the kiddos another super yummy dinner tonight, but apparently I offended my daughter by offering her chicken. She is now in her fruitarian phase again and refuses to eat pretty much anything other than fruit. Aaron at least humors me and eats whatever I put in front of him. The joys of having toddlers.

Be sure to check out the Multiples blog tomorrow, I'm reviewing Nicole O'Dell's new books which were AMAZING! If you have a "tween" girl you should check it out! Hope you had a great day!

Thankgiving Thursday

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Yes, it is finally Thursday! This week I am thankful for....

• Scott and the fact that I have gotten to sleep in pretty much every morning since he's been home.

• Scott not hitting my back to be funny :)

• All the support we have around us

• My kiddos having the craziest personalities that constantly have me laughing!

• The Wiggles. You are like crack to my children, and I am totally ok with that.

• My sunburn almost being gone.

• MoM's only day at the beach!
  

• The creepy guy telling me I was turning into a lobster, otherwise who knows how long we would have stayed in the water!

• Nicole sending over her new books, Scenarios for Girls "Truth or Dare" and "All that Glitters". I think it's awesome I got to be one of the firsts to read it and be able to write a review. Click HERE and HERE to preorder yours for your tweens!

• Being able to be apart of Multiples and More. It was definitely a thought I had for a while and without Lani, I don't know if it would have happened so quickly. You rock Lani :)

Play along with Nicole at What a trip! And be sure to check out our Shout Out of the Week on Multiples and More, she's from Chicago and HILARIOUS!