Easter 2014

We had a relaxing Easter morning followed by a lovely afternoon and dinner at the Weiss' house.  

Baskets appeared by the fireplace while the kids were eating french toast sticks for breakfast. If you're going to have a sugary day, you might as well have a sugary day.

Christie got a bouncy ball, cute outfit, kitty cup, sandals, divided plate, and a few eggs with candy.

Dominic got a divided plate, super heroes, chocolate bunny, chocolate covered marshmallows, and a few eggs with candy.

Christie grabbed the ball immediately then went straight for Dominic's basket.

 

Finally she looked at her own stuff.

Not surprisingly, his favorite was the motorcycle that came with Wolverine.

It didn't take her long to find, and finish, the candy from her plastic eggs.

 

Wolverine was in a sharing mood.

Uh oh, I ran out of sixlets.

But I know where to look for more!

Meanwhile, Darkseid was in kitty jail for 100 years.

The Aftermath.

And the rest of these were after nap at the Weiss' house.

 

Bubbles!

 

There was a dog outside so she had to keep looking out the back door.

The End! Happy Easter!

Weekend Craft

First of all, Happy Easter! I plan to do an Easter post soon, but I hope to include some picture of our outing later today.

This post is not a kid post, though one managed to sneak her way in.  Last weekend I did a relatively easy project, which was adding a backdrop to enhance our new built-ins.  I probably got the idea from Pinterest a long time ago.  Some people paint or wallpaper the backs of their shelves, but I wanted something that would not leave any residue.  I used foam board and wrapping paper.  The most annoying part was that standard foam board is about four inches short for the width of our shelves.  After cutting across the top to match the height of the shelves, I had to cut out a section of the excess and tape it to side of the board to increase my width.  Then I just taped a piece of wrapping onto each board and set it up against the back of the shelf.   I did have to be pretty careful with the wrapping paper and prevent kids from touching it since it wrinkles so easily. 

Here are the before picutres:

And after:

I like the result. I originally pictured something navy blue and graphic, like a chevron, but I didn't have the patience to order something online and wait for it to arrive. I ended up finding the stripes at Target, and figured I can change it out pretty easily.  I originally thought I could make them two-sided and switch them around on a whim, but since wrapping paper is pretty fragile and the boards are wedged in pretty tightly, I definitely will ruin the wrapping paper when I pull them out.  At least the foam boards will be reusable though.  The project cost was just around $20 since the foam boards happened to be on sale for $1 a piece.  I also had to buy an x-acto knife.  Now I'll be able to change the look for just the price of the wrapping paper.  That's kind of neat. 

Bluebonnets 2014

We took these bluebonnet pics a few weeks ago at Brushy Creek Lake Park.  This is the same location we went to last year, but this time there were no bluebonnets along the lake. It looked like the area had been mowed recently.  We did find a good-sized patch though.  I think we were pretty early in the season so they weren't very tall yet.

There are not very many pictures of Dominic in this set because we had a wardrobe malfunction.  After snapping the first few pictures, of course he informed me that he needed to go to the bathroom.  I took him over to some bushes to do his business (a new experience for him) and somehow we ended with huge wet spots on his khaki shorts. After that the poor boy hung out in his underwear until we went back to the car and left the park.

It looks like Christie is pushing him away "My baby!"

 

Airplane.

 

Christie interprets "Be gentle" as an instruction to aggressively pat babies/kids on the head. With the cat, it's usually the side or belly.

 

I would have got these up a lot sooner, but our old laptop recently died.  We bought a new one from Best Buy and it took them about six days to load the programs and recover our old files. Not very impressive, Geek Squad.