The past weekend has been filled with fun Easter Festivities! The weekend started out with an Easter egg hunt at a local church. It was AMAZING! They had over 6500 eggs! HOLY COW! The hill was scattered with eggs, it was beautiful! It was a really really well done egg hunt with different areas for each age group, waves of telling the kids how many to find and everyone was super respectful! Even my little AJ! We talked before hand about sharing eggs, letting the little kids get some too, only picking up the number of eggs we were supposed to etc. And she was such a sweet heart! She was more worried about where Alden was and if he was ok than about the eggs which is really uncharacteristic of her. Typically she is very competitive so it was nice to see her being so good. Helped little kids find eggs (not her brother though)! JT did well too and enjoyed finding the eggs! Addy took a picture with the Easter bunny... she LOVES anyone dressed up! She did notice that it was a different bunny than at the mall and wearing different clothes, too observant! JT was super excited and waved and kept saying "hi bunny" but then if the bunny came any closer he was not having any of it!
Alden and Addy before the big hunt!
And their off!
Stopped by another place to try to grab a pic of both kids with a bunny...
This may be the worst Bunny I've seen but Addy liked it... JT... well he did ok!
Of course we also dyed eggs! JT got the plastic eggs and water! He also did get to play with a real egg in the water too!
AJ was very proud of her glitter eggs! (Note to self... if using glitter eggs, wash the glitter off prior to making deviled eggs)
The girls and their eggs!
This morning the kids were excited to see what the bunny had brought them... So I may have cheated a little bit with the compact... If you already have a bunch of stuff bought from a while ago, does it still count now? I am thinking not since I technically didnt buy anything new! I have a small stockpile of stocking stuffer typed items so used those! The bunny also filled their baskets with snacks! I did spend 5$ of compact money to buy some kites for their baskets!
Then once Meena and Papa came they went out and found the eggs that the bunny had left for them.... remember the sweet egg hunting girl that I told you about earlier... well today it was all about getting as many eggs as possible and NOT helping her little brother... Luckily the bunny hid them on both sides of the yard so JT was able to get some... However her basket was overflowing with eggs and his only had about 7 in it! After talking to Addy about not sharing the eggs, she snuck around on the deck and emptied all of the egg candy into her bucket and put all the empty eggs in JT's basket...Clever.
The proud egg finder!
With the fam here, of course there was a project, or two, or three to get done... Project number one.... Building two raised vegetable garden beds. My dad got some repurposed lumber from his work, he painted them and brought them, and we put them all together! I did have to buy a couple cedar boards and the dirt but since the goal of the vegi garden is to grow some of our own vegis which is compacty, I am not counting the boards or dirt in our new purchase fund!
Ji'Robert was super excited about all of the man stuff that was happening! He watched, carried around a big shovel, held up boards, and supervised the guys! I see future man projects including him in the coming years!
Even Addy helped by digging in the dirt. Although... Jared sent her inside to change clothes since she had a nice dress on and she came back out in just her undies! So back inside she went to put ugly ok to get dirty clothes on!
The finished product!
Today Addy had her first real game of hopscotch thanks to Meena who was a fabulous teacher!
Besides doing the garden, Papa fixed the gap in the railing that Addy broke a couple months ago. Fixing that will be SO helpful as TyTy had figured out how to climb through it! We also re hung up the T in our EAT sign which was knocked off the wall and we installed Addy's beautiful headboard! Meena had gotten this fireplace mantel quite some time ago and put beadboard in the center to make it into a headboard for her sweet little granddaughter! It turned out super cute!
Even Mr Ji'Robert thought it was great!
We had a wonderful day with Meena and Papa. Even Ty was using their names and talking a lot today! He is just growing up into a little man!
And so we end day 55 of our compact with the following stats (6 days left):
Compact initial new purchase fund: 75$
Current status: $45.61
Purchased items: rub on tattoos (3.19), Team Saul T-shirt (8), L-brackets & washers (4.91), Easter egg dye kit (2), Car charger/phone protector/phone case (6.29), Kites (5)
Compact successes: Fisher Price Animals
Wish list: I Love My Hair T-Shirt, Dress shoes for AJ, white sneakers for work, movie Tangled, sandals for both kids
Sparky the fire dog
Scooooooby Dooo!
The cat in the hat.....
A favorite... ELMO!
And of course face painting.... or hand painting!
Sometimes a random event can turn into a special mother daughter night.
OK, just kidding but it was hair night! Shawna and I had done hair a while ago together and it went really well so we thought we'd try it again! So we had tubby time with the two girls..... And JT! He really really wanted in so I put him in a swimmy diaper and in the tub with the girls he went! They all did really well! We sat and did the girls hair while they watched Elmo in Grouchland and had snacks! Both girls did amazing. They are so cute together and were super good!
An after styling foot tickle fest! The laughter that came from these two little girls and the tiny little squeals of pure joy were heart warming!
They realized that we had inadvertently done basically the same style on them so they gave eachother a nosey kiss so we could get a glimpse of the tops of their styles together!
Hair Twins!
DO YOU SEE THAT! My husband became compacty! He got two discs USED! He's played along for our compact journey and as far as I know he hasn't broken the compact (minus ordering minidiscs for his frisbee league but that was using frisbee money and for the league so I let that slide). So even though I gave him a disc golf exemption for this month, he's done the compact anyway!
And their off!
Stopped by another place to try to grab a pic of both kids with a bunny...
This may be the worst Bunny I've seen but Addy liked it... JT... well he did ok!
Of course we also dyed eggs! JT got the plastic eggs and water! He also did get to play with a real egg in the water too!
AJ was very proud of her glitter eggs! (Note to self... if using glitter eggs, wash the glitter off prior to making deviled eggs)
The girls and their eggs!
This morning the kids were excited to see what the bunny had brought them... So I may have cheated a little bit with the compact... If you already have a bunch of stuff bought from a while ago, does it still count now? I am thinking not since I technically didnt buy anything new! I have a small stockpile of stocking stuffer typed items so used those! The bunny also filled their baskets with snacks! I did spend 5$ of compact money to buy some kites for their baskets!
Then once Meena and Papa came they went out and found the eggs that the bunny had left for them.... remember the sweet egg hunting girl that I told you about earlier... well today it was all about getting as many eggs as possible and NOT helping her little brother... Luckily the bunny hid them on both sides of the yard so JT was able to get some... However her basket was overflowing with eggs and his only had about 7 in it! After talking to Addy about not sharing the eggs, she snuck around on the deck and emptied all of the egg candy into her bucket and put all the empty eggs in JT's basket...Clever.
The proud egg finder!
With the fam here, of course there was a project, or two, or three to get done... Project number one.... Building two raised vegetable garden beds. My dad got some repurposed lumber from his work, he painted them and brought them, and we put them all together! I did have to buy a couple cedar boards and the dirt but since the goal of the vegi garden is to grow some of our own vegis which is compacty, I am not counting the boards or dirt in our new purchase fund!
Even Addy helped by digging in the dirt. Although... Jared sent her inside to change clothes since she had a nice dress on and she came back out in just her undies! So back inside she went to put ugly ok to get dirty clothes on!
The finished product!
Today Addy had her first real game of hopscotch thanks to Meena who was a fabulous teacher!
Besides doing the garden, Papa fixed the gap in the railing that Addy broke a couple months ago. Fixing that will be SO helpful as TyTy had figured out how to climb through it! We also re hung up the T in our EAT sign which was knocked off the wall and we installed Addy's beautiful headboard! Meena had gotten this fireplace mantel quite some time ago and put beadboard in the center to make it into a headboard for her sweet little granddaughter! It turned out super cute!
Even Mr Ji'Robert thought it was great!
We had a wonderful day with Meena and Papa. Even Ty was using their names and talking a lot today! He is just growing up into a little man! 
Caught on video!
And how to help carry wood!
Both kids enjoy doing the dishes...(or at least playing in the bubble water). AJ is even folding towels when we do laundry!
JT is growing up quickly as well! He's now figured out that baby gates are for babies and that he can just go through the hole in the railing instead....Time to get that fixed!
He's talking more and more each day and is SOOOO cute! Seriously, ridiculously adorable! Hoping to get a video of JT posted in the next few days!
Bumblebee boy was having no part of the action!
But Ladybug Girl ate it all up!
She sat with her eyes closed, waved her ladybug wand and quietly whispered, "I wish myself outta here".... WHAT! Too funny! She thought it was hysterical!
Moments like the one captured below make me realized how blessed I am to have two amazing kids who love each other more than everything. They play So nicely together and JT is always much more concerned where Sissy is than anyone else!
The otters came right up to the fence and the kids were super excited!
We got lots of butt shots today as that was the best time to grab group shots!
Look how big the two little ones are getting!
Going in for the kiss!
I seem to be lacking in pics of Jared and I and the kids so need to attempt to remember to hand my camera over once in a while!
Later we met Miss Nora for dinner and Mallage! The girls tried on hats and snuck into Victorias Secret... and by snuck I mean sprinted.... I left Jenny with JT while I took the girls to the bathroom. We walked out of Childrens place and the girls who were otherwise being super good, took off together at a full sprint and ran through Victorias Secret while screaming then looped through the next store and ended in Hallmark where I finally caught them both. They never were far away or in any danger and although I have stressed to AJ how important not running away is and she hasn't done it for a long time, it was fairly amusing to see everyone in VC's reaction to the two girls running through the bras!
The three of them got a chance to give the Easter bunny waves when he was out wandering around but then before we left the girls needed to give him a hug and thankfully there was noone in line so we swooped on in for a quick visit!
Needless to say, my to-do list went to pot today! I did get some laundry done and we went grocery shopping but otherwise it was just a fun lovely quiet day.
