Easter Eve

Easter "Eve" was such a fun filled day for us. I wanted to have a day full of Easter fun. We started bright and early by dying eggs. This is the first year that Ashlyn has gotten to dye eggs. She had a great time. She still was a little confused, but she did like helping. She liked putting the eggs in the different cups. She even got to decorate eggs with princess stickers. It was a great experience dying eggs with her.

That afternoon, we decided to go to an Easter egg hunt. My Mom had read about one near my Grandma's house. We decided to give it a try. We got there and there weren't many kids. We had to stand around and wait quite a while. After waiting, they announced that all kids 4 and under would go first. Ashlyn had fun looking for the eggs. The only problem was, lots of kids showed up. The 4 year-olds were pretty fast and grabbing all of the eggs. Ashlyn only ended up with 3 eggs. I don't know that we would go to that Easter egg hunt again, but Ashlyn did seem to have fun.

When we got home, we decided it was time to make cupcakes. Ashlyn LOVES cooking! We have started making it a holiday tradition to make cupcakes for each holiday. Ashlyn has a blast helping and decorating. We each eat one, and then we send the rest to work with Joey. Ashlyn really did a good job of stirring and helping. She loved sprinkling the sprinkles.

After the cupcakes, it was time to paint! I bought Ashlyn a little wooden cross to paint. We got out all of the paint and she went to town on the cross. She had a good time. She does a lot of painting and crafts at school and she really enjoys it.

We topped of the night by going out to dinner with Gram, Uncle Steven, and Daddy. It was a great day and Ashlyn had so much fun!


Dying the eggs

Getting ready to put an egg in

She was a little confused at first

She had so much fun!

She got the hang of it very quickly.

Some of the finished eggs

Waiting patiently for the egg hunt

She just wanted to go hunt for eggs!

I thought this picture was cute. This is her "cheese" face.

On the hunt for eggs

She found one!

She found another one!

Helping with the cupcakess

She loves baking

Doing a great job of stirring the batter

She has the cooking gene!!!

The cross before

Putting paint on

She loves playing with paint

The finished product. We attempted bright, Easter colors. Once she started painting, they all got combined and it turned this color.