Spring Break and Easter

I guess our school district wanted Spring Break to coincide with Easter this year, but boy was it late! And since it was so late, we weren't able to do too much since the baby will be here in just a couple of weeks, so we stayed close to home and had a pretty low-key break. Lots of cousin, friend, and family time, a little swimming, and a little surgery. Poor Jonah - he had a cyst removed last year that didn't heal right and had to have the procedure done again last week. He is seriously one of the bravest kids I know and didn't even make a peep during the procedure. 9 stitches and it already looks so much better!

The girl's Easter started early with an egg hunt with their preschool class. I loved the picture I got of them starting their run toward the eggs. Such great faces!

Nana took the kids for a sleepover Friday night and they got to have a night-time egg hunt with flashlights and find all sorts of goodies. These were some silly glasses they got that cracked me up.

Sunday morning the kids woke up to Easter baskets and a quick egg hunt before church. I really wanted a picture of the kids in their Easter clothes, but with being late for church already and posing them in the sun, we didn't get a good pic, oh well...

After church, we dyed eggs for our annual Hilbus Easter Egg Beauty Pageant and Egg Wars. Stoddard's came away victorious this year with Elle winning the Grand Champion of the beauty pageant and me winning the Egg Wars! Some people will tell you the wars were a little lax this year, but pay no attention, it doesn't matter that I had to beat my 9-year-old son and 13-year-old niece. What matters is I did what needed to be done and won. (Just joking!)

The kids each got their own thing of "Flarp" in their baskets and that's really been the hit this year. I took a little video you can check out on YouTube if you want: http://www.youtube.com/user/lkstoddard5?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/LhCgcUYGsas