Wordless Wednesday: Easter

I know, I know... I'm still not back.  I'm getting there.  To tie you over in the mean time here are some Easter pictures

Hope everyone had a good Easter

Dash: Final Days

Today is Dash's last day with us.  We have had a lot of fun with him this year and cannot wait until he comes back next year. 

Dash has slid down the banister

This morning we woke to a scavenger hunt

I must say Lynden surprised me; he knew exactly where to look for every hint Dash left.  I thought the last two hints would stump him; "I wish I could have gone to preschool with Lynden" (Lynden's backpack) and "Look in some of your favourite hiding spots while playing hide and seek" (under Alyssa's crib) - Lynden got both at once. 

The final surprise?

Christmas pajamas!!

Lynden's looking forward to having Santa come tonight, even though it means Dash is going home.

 

From my family to yours, Merry Christmas!!

Halloween

Halloween was wet, but good. 

This past weekend we carved and painted pumpkins.  Yes, painted.  When Lynden was two I wasn't sure what to do with him since he could not carve a pumpkin, so I let him paint it.  It worked and we had fun doing it. 

This year I decided Alyssa was old enough to paint hers and she LOVED it.  That girl is going to be crafty, thank goodness.  And we had an extra pumpkin from Lynden\s pumpkin patch field trip so I let him paint one too.

What am I suppose to do?

 

ohhh...

 

this is fun!

 

my art-ists

 

we have paint

finished painted pumpkins

Then my sisters gutted the pumpkins (and made wonderful pumpkin seeds) and I stenciled and carved the rest (except my youngest sister's pumpkin, she carved hers and it looked Great!)

 

Lynden took this picture of Aunty

kids and pumpkins

"all lighted up" as Lynden would say

Lynden's eek

Mommy's little darlings

Daddy's spooky pumpkins

 We went to the mall to do some indoor trick or treating and then after dinner we went door to door in my grandparents' complex.  I think the kids had more fun handing out candy. 

Fireman Lynden

Witchy Alyssa

We had a good day, even with the rain. 

Gearing Up For Halloween

Tomorrow will be the rainiest Halloween I've seen in a long time (they're calling for up to 50mm of rain), which is probably going to make it a quiet night for us. 

 

I don't mind too much since Lynden's a little sick, I've kinked my neck and shoulders, we just found Lynden's Halloween candy stash from last year, and Alyssa will want to to go trick or treating too, which could be hard with stairs and no Danny (he works late on Wednesday).  I think we'll just do the trick or treating at the mall and maybe drive around in the rain when Danny gets home to look at the displays. 

 

Lynden is going to be a fireman, which he wanted to be from his birthday until a few weeks ago when he decided he wanted to be Spiderman.  Of course he decides this as soon as every Spiderman costume is sold out... everywhere.  Finally broke it to him on Sunday he has to be a fireman. 

 

Halloween is one of my favourite kid holidays (after Christmas), not because of the candy but because I love seeing him dress up.  He's always been cute in his Halloween costumes.

 

Giraffe Lynden
2009

 

 

 

Lil "Debil" Lynden
2010

 

"I'm Thomas"
2011

Alyssa was pretty darn cute last year too



She was a lil "debil"

This year she will be a witch and if we go out tomorrow night we might put her in Lynden's giraffe costume.  It fits as long as we don't put the hood up. 

What are your kids going for Halloween?

Tuesday 10: Easter

10 Easter Memories (in no particular order)

1. Easter on the Island. 
   I remember being about 10 and spending Easter with my mom and sister at a lifelong family friend's on the Island.  I remember we set up a trap to catch the Easter Bunny, which didn't work; we only found chocolate bunnies.  I also remember going outside in their front yard that was covered in Easter goodies, it was the second biggest Easter haul!
2. The year of chocolate.
   Oh.my.gosh!  This has been told many times over and it still flabbergasts us.  My mother went chocolate crazy one year and it was insanity!  I have a major sweet tooth and at Halloween I still had stuff left over, no word of a lie!  We took it to school and tried to pawn as much of it off as we could and still had mountains left.  It was nuts!
3. Our cousin
   I have tons of cousins, but 99% of them are a numbered cousin so many times removed (I don't really understand how to figure it all out, so everyone is a cousin).  Growing up it was my sister, our one and only full cousin (on my mom's side), and I.  We only saw our cousin a few times a year but Easter was usually one of our regular visits.
   
4. Colouring eggs
   Every year we coloured eggs at my grandparent's place. I can still picture the newspapers or sheets (depending on what year it was since they discovered newspaper print got everywhere when soaked in egg dyes) covering the table and floor. It was always a competition as to who could make the best looking egg, which usually ended up with them all different shades of brown from the mixing Every colour of dye. (It's kinda sad to think today's kids won't have those eggs with the new dye systems. There's rollers, which we used this year, bags, sponges, along with other ways to keep the mess contained).
   
   

   

   colouring eggs

   
   
   

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was a huge hit in our house. 

Danny's sister arrived at our place on Friday and Lynden had a ball!  They played cars (she might be a favourite now), built a fort over his bed, coloured Easter eggs, and she went down the slide multiple times at the park (that might have cemented it). 

love how he stuck his tongue out while working

having fun

painting

Magic Eggs

one of my favourite shots

Saturday we had dinner with Danny's family at his other sister's. The moment we arrived Lynden was off playing with his cousins.  They ran circles around the house playing tag, played trains, rode bikes outside, and Lynden even had his first taste of a trampoline, which he loved.  It was really nice to see him play all day, especially since we have not seen them nearly as much as we want to.  (I'm really sad, I took my camera but didn't get any pictures.  Not even one in Alyssa's Beautiful dress and shoes.  I may have to dress her up in it once I wash it just to get the picture.)

That night Lynden planted his Magic Beans from Dash and was thrilled to be having a sleep over with his Aunt (although it's hard to have a sleep over when you sleep in our bed all night). 

An Easter Surprise From Dash

Lynden has been talking about Dash quite a bit lately.  Every now and again, out of the blue, Lynden will talk about something Dash did or tell us Dash is coming back when it's Christmas. 

Sadly, we haven't heard from Dash since last Christmas.  Until today. 

This morning Lynden and I checked the mail and Lynden was thrilled there was mail for him. 

We took the mail upstairs to see what Dash had sent us