Happy Easter

Our Easter In Photos

 

So our church did an Easter Parade around the block and got Blessed by Father Tom. It was so heartwarming to see all the people who came to support our church. 

 THen we stopped by Josh to give him palms and easter cookies.

 The tree next our tree got cut down..the kids counted the rings and played "who's taller"

 Family photo

 Some how the easter bunny waited to come until after we got back from church. Of course I said the chickens sure laid funny color eggs.

 Baskets were left indoors, which was good since it was chilly .

 So our family came for a very short visit and staying 6 feet apart.. They met Grady, we exchanged easter "baskets" and then they headed on their way. It was nice to be able to see them for a little bit. Really missing family and friends.

 We got a lamb cake this year. Also the kids and i made the center pieces... Something a little different for this little different Easter

 Grady got a lamb too... Lamb Chop..which my kids didn't know was from a TV show

Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday

We started out Holy Week with some Easter fun!

We watched Mass online with the Bishop and Fr. Greg and then in the afternoon watched Miss Jodi in the Atrium. 

 We painted Eggs for  Easter decorations 

 Mom of the year! Got out all the play-dough stuff so the kids could play with the homemade play-dough

POGS!!!!!

 Working on our Eggs some more.. it took a couple days so they could dry and such

 This kid cracks me up on what he picks to wear. He's such a country kid!

 Pepper is still struggling with the puppy, but she's been coming up more and more. She also figured out that Cole and Grady were outside, so she came upstairs to enjoy both bones!

 lots of walks.. and normally we let the puppy run to keep him from picking on Cole

 More painting :) This time a table runner

 I went to work out and came back to everyone sleeping waiting for me.

 We made cut outs to hand out to some of our favorite people

 Max worked really hard on his card

 I got to help "decorate" our school windows

woah Wednesday

So the days have gotten away from me again. Ok that's not really true. The trouble is Tuesday was a really rough day for Max and Wednesday has been a really rough day for me. 
Tuesday was another beautiful day. We got schooling down quickly and then i tired to get some work done for myself too... My mom asked if she could come over to enjoy the weather... so she came at lunch time.. we spent from 12:45-3pm outside working in the yard.  We got the rest of the raking done, got the front yard started and placed anti slip stickers on my porch steps. We wore out the puppy who did a lot of napping. The kids were worn out too.
Wednesday we all hit a rock.. Max hated doing any work. told his whole class that i only made him work and basically refused to do anything.  I had no ambition and felt like i was loosing it.  I just couldn't really function and so i didn't. We stay home and everyone in their own corner of the house. It wasn't a pleasant day.

Another weekend down

So we hit another weekend. I tried to make this weekend, like a normal weekend. The one thing i noticed we were missing was deep cleaning. Like the little things like sweeping the floor or picking up toys was being done, but cleaning bedrooms, picking up the basement, working outside, and such was just not in the schedule.  So I decided after working outside, we would do some inside work to start with. Also it was pretty chilly this weekend, not sure what that was about. I work on starting laundry and deep cleaning the kitchen. Tee kids helped by cleaning the bathrooms and their rooms.  My mom came over when I was in the middle of deciding to rearrange the living room. We need more room for schooling and schooling stuff.  Also the kids have their big barn set up and while we have a baby gate to keep Grady out of it, they didn't fit in the area to actually play.  So I did that while Mom folded my laundry.  It was nice to get a lot  done with many hands.
I found out that i could get some stuff from my gym so i ran out to get that. Once i got back, i decided to clean up and rearrange my basement to make room to actually work out. That was a bigger undertaking than i realized it would be.  So that was pretty our day..spring cleaning!
Sunday, is getting to be the hardest day of the week. I was never much of a church person until I met Josh. Even then i struggled with going EVERY week. When Josh died, I though, who cares...I'll go when it works and it will be fine. Well in the last couple years, with the help of church choir, I enjoy and WANT to go every weekend. Now not having that reason to be able to go out and go, is making the day sad.  We did get out and run to the grocery store quickly. THe kids got to wait in the car, not in the store.  Oh yeah... So we woke up to our smoke alarm beeping saying the battery was dead. Cole and Pepper freaked out. Cole spend most of the night outside and morning, so he got chilled and i had to warm him up because he was shivering. My dishwasher was acting funny, so i took it apart and then fought to get it back together. So leaving for a few minutes was nice.  Spend some time outside and being lazy before we headed back out to pick up edging for the yard...another project of mine to get done.  It was at least a nice night so we got to enjoy it before it was showers and bedtime. Gotta go to bed early on "school nights" Btw my kids did inform me that since school doesn't start until 9 they don't have to go to bed early.

 Monoply Jenga

 Max recording the daily announcements for school. he was very proud to do this.

 I did the weekend workout.. it was a challenge as i raced against the cake being done, and crazy dogs and kids

 Look at how Pepper is doing.. she's slowly getting use to Grady

 We made play dough preschool style.. the kids love it!