Easter Egg Hunt

Our backyard was a wet swamp, so our egg hunt was only in the front yard this year.  

We do coins in our eggs.  Each boy was able to get 50 small eggs, one golden egg, one large egg.  There was only ONE mega-egg.  

Ryan picked up small eggs for days while Kyle and egg picked up nothing while looking for the mega-egg.

He found it, but came up short on the smalls.  

They all came in with a big haul.  Happy hunting!  

Pre-Easter Fun

The boys got some fun Crayola art stuff for early Easter gifts from Granna and Gramps.  They LOVED having a real activity--no screen time! 

We enjoyed a lunch at Lupe Tortilla!

Another activity, we made some Easter sugar cookies.  And celebrated what will probably be the last year for these Easter aprons.  

After the cookies cooled, we all worked on decorating them---with SUPER BRIGHT COLORS!

Crazy faces have become a new favorite.  

Our cookies were favorites, too!

Bluebonnets

Nearly twenty years ago, I did some student teaching at Jane Long Middle School in Bryan, which is funny because I was hired for a permanent teaching position at Jane Long Elementary in Midland.  

While I was at the middle school, my parents came to visit.  It happened to be Bluebonnet season, and we snapped some photos in the flowers on the school grounds.  

Fast forward to the present.  The boys and I went to the same place this year for our annual bluebonnet photos.  They were amazing this year! 

When my parents came for Ryan's baptism, we couldn't go without capturing the flowers again.  

I LOVE the wildflowers in spring in Texas!  

Egg Dyeing Party

We hosted our third annual egg dyeing party.  This was the best one ever!  We made lots of different colors and let the kids play in the cul-de-sac while the eggs were sitting in the colors.  I also came up with a solution for whose egg was sitting in which color cup.  Kids just wrote their names on a spoon and left the spoon in the cup with their egg.  Saved us from many of the mistakes and switch-ups from last year.  

It was so fun having kids to play with in the cul-de-sac....and not just girls, like we're used to! 

We had some really beautiful eggs this year, and I loved having friends along for the fun! 

Evan also filled and decorated some plastic eggs for his class egg hunt.  He helped me write sight words on 20 eggs and then hunted for them at school.

We were ready for the big hunt at home!

School Fun

There's always fun days at the boys' school.  

Kyle doesn't usually like group projects, but he looked happy about this one.  

Ryan had a field trip about helmet safety with some Aggie Athletes.  

The 2nd graders read the story by Patricia Polacco, Rechenka's Eggs, and worked on making their own hand painted eggs.  

The Greens Prairie Rodeo was so-so, as we had to leave for Kyle's soccer game in Houston.  The one thing they all wanted to do was laser tag.  It didn't open for an hour after everything else, so getting there before the start time was useless and caused much disappointment.  

They still had fun on a few games.  

And, this balloon came home with us and lasted for several days.  

I am grateful for our school family.