The Grand Finale--Part II

 

And the verdict is in.  204 eggs were ALMOST enough!

After Jace finished rounding up the eggs in his bedroom and living room and was playing transformers while we waited for the Erickson's to come over for lunch and finish up the egg hunt, Ryan had the brilliant idea that he and I should exercise.  Yes,  EXERCISE?? (I think he thinks I look hot when I exercise and he wanted a little Easter cheer!)  I totally don't look hot when I exercise. Somehow I let him talk me into it, we both did our workout and I wasn't glad I did.

When the Erickson's arrived the kids hunted eggs downstairs and outside.

A real egg.

Cute Ammon Erickson

Mom's job was to hold all the eggs that didn't fit in the Easter basket.

Jace found his "really big" egg- containing a matchbox garbage truck.

Almost enough Robin eggs!

                                                           Gracie's egg had a.....

little lamb inside.

Phil, Julie, and Ammon Erickson  

Well, all good things must come to an end, and our 2011 egg hunt did indeed come to an end.

And we found every last egg!

Easter Bunny Day-- Part I

Felt Easter Baskets I made out of di-cuts for the kids.   Well actually-Target-but I think you believed me!

The Easter Bunny got all the Swigert eggs filled and hidden by 1:30AM.  It was so much fun.  I woke Ryan up at midnight after I had filled all the eggs and he hid them for me.

Upstairs we had eggs in Jace's bedroom, the living room, kitchen, and dining room.

The rest of the eggs were downstairs in the family room, bathroom and outside. 

Jace woke up around 9:30AM.

In keeping with my childhood tradition, the Easter Bunny wrote a message with Jelly Beans.

This is what Jace saw in his room when he first woke up, along with eggs hiding in his dump trucks and other cars. There was some definate screeches of excitement in our house!

With eggs clutched in his hands, the estatic Robin went running down the hall to the living room area to find "more eggs!".

This is what the Bunny left on our table.

A lighter blue Transformer!!!!!

"Look, huge bubbles!"

Gracie got a pink lawn mower.   Dad's glad he can finally pass the lawn mowing job on to his kids!

Jace gets his hands on that Transformer

 He retreats under the table to transform.  I hear "ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch---"

Consulting Dad

When all else fails read the directions!

Grace finds another Jelly Bean message and stuffs her fists full!

Dad takes away the choking hazard.  That Rabbit.  What was he thinking?

And this ends Part I of II. Tomorrow--the rest of the story.  I'm off to curl up with my man and watch a movie for about 3 minutes before he is out cold!

Ready or Not

Ready or not the Easter Bunny is on his way to our house. 

We spent the evening coloring eggs  with 12 packets of egg dye. We got such great colors this year.  It was loads of fun.  Now it is  10:21 PM in Iowa.  I have both my children asleep as well as Ryan zonked out on Jace's bed. (Can you believe I am blogging?) I am off  to fill 204 eggs with money, candy and cars for a VERY anxious Robin who has been asking me everyday since last Saturday if today is "Easter Bunny Day?" 

Jace knows that tomorrow when he wakes up that the Easter Bunny will have stopped by his house.  Well, that Easter Bunny better deliver and I mean DELIVER!!

 

The dented yellow egg is my favorite.



Ants in Our....

Oh we've got ants in our house.  Those small little pesky black ones.  Luckily not hoards of them. And luckily only Grace has had them in her pants! We have just enough to drive me crazy and enough to keep Robin busy spraying them with water.  He saw me pull out the ant spray the other day and spray some.  He of course wanted to take over that job. 

I could just see him spraying toxic chemicals all over the house.  Such a great idea with Grace always in tow.  So we improvised today.

I set him loose with a spray bottle of water and it kept him busy for at least an hour. 

In this shot he had just accidentally sprayed Grace with water--he thought it was funny!

It did take me about an hour to clean up the water all over the floor and walls after he had "broken them all apart".  But hey, I haven't seen an ant all evening.  He might just be for hire if any of you are in need of an ant exterminator!