Happy Easter

Happy Easter. This year I decided not to fall into the trap of overbuying stuff for the kids for Easter. You know those Easter trinkets that entertain the kids for a few minutes and then find their way to the bottom of the toy basket. I could not believe my eyes when I went down the Easter aisle at Target. They had so much stuff from every kind of character from Elmo to Hello Kitty to Spiderman. Crazy. I guess like everything else, Easter is getting more commercialized. It's not just peeps and chocolate bunnies anymore.
Checking out the Easter goods.
I tried to make most of their stuff myself---the lambs, egg puzzle and......
gnomes. I was really proud of my gnomes each with their own pillow, leaf bed and blanket. Not to mention the cupcakes. Excuse 0ur "Easter grass", it was a little out of control. I tried not to buy to much candy but think that last bag of hershey kisses pushed us into candy overload.
Waiting for the egg hunt at church to begin.
Disappointed faces. Grace was upset that she didn't get more eggs. See, I told she finally got the concept this year. I guess we need to work on being grateful for what we have.

How cute is Lucas in his big boy button down shirt? I made him a tie from an adult sized tie last night but it did not survive the tugging and yanking of a little boy who did not want to wear it. I mean he didn't know that I stayed up until 1 am working on that tie just for him. Oh well, he still looked so cute, tie or not.
The after photo meaning the photo taken after we opened a piece of candy for them. See candy does make the world a better, happier place.

And those are the only Easter photos I have. After church we went over to parent's and had a delicious lunch followed by more candy, a nap, more candy and another candy hunt.