A Day to Celebrate

On Easter, we headed out to a local park and climbed walls, explored old houses, climbed trees, and attempted to get a picture of the three kids. The weather was beautiful and HOT. We have skipped over Spring and landed in Summer. Hopefully Spring will return.

Why will they not all look at once? No matter how many I take - this always seems to be the case!

Just kicking back.

Livy and her cheesy smile.

Easter Morning

On Easter morning we made Resurrection Rolls. This is the third or fourth time we have made them and they were the best ones we made so far. They are a simple and effective Easter "recipe" to do with your kids. They represent the tomb with Jesus' body inside.

Two packages of canned biscuit dough (we used Pillsbury Grands).

8 Marshmallows

1/2 stick melted butter

cinnamon and sugar

1. Flatten out the biscuits.
2. Use one biscuit as the bottom.
3. Dip a marshmallow in melted butter.
4. Roll in cinnamon sugar mixture.
5. Place gooey covered marshmallow in the middle of the flatten biscuit.
6. Cover with another flattened biscuit.
7. Seal the edges together (like a pie crust).
8. Place on greased cookie sheet and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon/ sugar.
9. Bake as directed.

As they cook the marshmallow will melt - but it leaves the perfect outline of the marshmallow. When you crack your tomb open it will be empty- just like Resurrection morning.

Sound too simple? It is perfect for pre-schoolers.

Then on to Easter baskets... full of all kinds of goodies to rot little teeth.

Easter Eve

We did all the usual stuff on Easter Eve...

Ate some of Grandad's Awesome Chicken Wings...

Texted our friends...

And we dyed some eggs.

His Favorite Presents

Here are a couple of the birthday boy's favorite gifts...

The beloved Joker's Fun House... thanks Granny!

"Real money"... thanks Great Granny. (My Granny sends Ethan a dollar each year - in addition to his gift- and this is the first year he anticipated and looked forward to it!)

Stuart Little 2! He is obsessed with the little fury friend!

New glider swing... thanks Grandma!

Play Station game... Larry Boy (something or other) a big hit!

What should we do to celebrate?

Conveniently this year spring break coincided with Ethan's birthday. He was thrilled to not have to go to school on his big day. So, I told him we could do whatever he wanted on his birthday. The answer- go to the movies. So Grandma watched the little ones and off we went to How to Train Your Dragon. I am a stickler about not taking the kids to PG movies, but after reading the review from PluggedIn Online we chanced it (since nothing else, rated G, is out). I am glad to say- the movie was great. There are some intense fighting scenes between dragon and viking- but other than that- very kid friendly (most importantly lacking the sexual innuendos that have turned me off to other Dreamworks movies). Ethan (and I) would definitely recommend it!

So here he is- celebrating- Ethan style!

Sun in his eyes.

Eagerly waiting for the movie to start... his choice of movie junk food- popcorn, root beer, twizzlers and hot tamales. We were both stuffed (but happy) by the end!

Sorry there are no pictures of the movie ;(! I didn't want to break any infringement laws!

Cupcakes for Breakfast

So yesterday began the birthday season at our house... with Ethan turning 6! I still can't believe he is so old! As is tradition in our house we began with cupcakes for breakfast!

More birthday fun to come...