Easter

Easter was almost a week long celebration at our house because of my work schedule and the busy weekend. It started on Wednesday night with an Easter egg hunt on our porch with my parents. I had a meeting on Thursday night and they were leaving on Friday for the weekend so we did it early. I had been practicing hunting eggs with Oliver a couple times over the last week and he did great at it on the porch. Good thing they were plastic eggs because he was throwing them all over the place and shaking them because they were full of money. 

Thursday I had off so we attempted dyeing eggs. Last year we didn't dye eggs so this was my first experience at doing it in a lot of years. I had everything lined up and pushed back so that Oliver would maybe just observe me doing it but I should have known better. After I put the first egg in the yellow dye Oliver grabbed for the spoon in it and spilled the cup of dye over. Good thing our counter top is lime green and it blended in well. 

After starting over with new newspaper and Oliver playing on the floor while I dyed the rest of the eggs, I put him back up to admire the eggs. And of course, he picked up an egg and smacked it down on the counter cracking it. So, he got to try his first hard boiled egg, well minus the yolk part cause I don't even eat that part unless it's in egg salad or deviled. 

Saturday we went down to Davenport to celebrate my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. Not many people can say that they'll see a 60th anniversary so I was honored to help them celebrate. My sister and I were the cake cutters and we sure dished up a lot of cake so I'd say they had a great turn out of people. Before we left Davenport Oliver had to pose for pictures with his Easter baskets from Great Grandma Billie

Sunday we got up early because Easter was at our house for the Peterman's. Oliver did his part and finished up "vacuuming" for us. 

 While he was vacuuming I decorated these cupcakes. I got the idea for the flowers on the top off of pinterest but added my own twist because I like peanut M&M's. 

Grandpa Chuck and Grandma Shirley came over early and gave Oliver his Easter present. A movie, watering can, bucket and shovel, and yummy treats. He also received some sunglasses and bunny glasses neither of which he would keep on, even for a picture. 

 Shawn had to show him how to wear them. 

 After lunch we headed to the back yard for the Easter egg hunt. Oliver is the only kid so he had to do all the hard work. In all our practicing prior to this egg hunt we had always used plastic eggs and it was inside so he wasn't too interested in the eggs outside. All of the eggs had to be pointed out to him and he'd run to them and run right passed them. He got better, slightly, but I'm sure next year will be a different story. 

Happy Easter 2012