Easter 2012!

We have not planned an Easter Party this year.  I guess we were so tired from Mike's on call week that we did not give it too much thought.  But, by Thursday night my mom called me and asked what were we doing? That is when things started.  Check the cute pictures :)

Here is my baby with her cousins.  They were playing, running, dancing, and waiting for the Easter bunny!

I asked them to go "crazy" and jump or do whatever they wanted.

Then, they thought of the swing set and how they can go silly!

I see a bunny at work :)

The kids get so excited when they see the eggs in the yard.

Ari did really well this year collecting eggs (all on her own).

After finding all the eggs.  Some where in the grass, others were hidden in things :)

The bunny did not make baskets (It knew they will need them for the eggs) but left a little gift for each of the kids.

Eating chocolate...

 My sister and her family + the bunny got my daughter an Easter bunny!

Easter 2010

It was chaos for a moment when the kids saw the eggs lying on the carpet.  We went to plan B since it was raining badly (and it was not supposed to rain..." but it was equally fun).  The kids had fun.

All the kids including the munchkins collected eggs.  I thought Santana and Arianna will just stare at the other kids, but nope they put quite a bit of eggs in their baskets.  The girls helped them too.  How nice of them.

Besides the eggs and after the rain squashed my map hunting for the treasure.  I came up with another solution.  I wrote the name of each of the kids and hid it in the basement.  I told them that the Easter bunny said that they needed to work as a team, and unless everyone found their name... no treasure can be unlocked.  The same went for the rare eggs.  Each needed one of each.  It worked.  Everyone helped everyone, the smaller eggs where first come first served. 
I did buy a small toy to each of the kids: Surge and slinky dog from Toy Story, batman car, project runaway for the big girls (they came with the templates to draw dresses, hair styles, etc...), and a car for Santana.
Plus everyone got a notebook and a box of crayola.  (Well, the crayola was needed for school, but they loved it).

I picked one picture that I liked from each kid...

 

Everyone started playing together...

The adults in the other hand were relaxing, but having fun as well.

Food was good.  People were great. Ari gave us a big tantrum at the end of the night, good thing is that she felt asleep and woke up her normal self.  She is after all 21/2 years old.  But, overall was a good night. 

New Year's Eve and Cleaning (WPP 1)

This was the last day of 2009. January 31st and we were waiting for the last hour. Gosh, we were not sure if we were going to make it. When did we become so old or so tired to stay past 11 pm? We were not going to do anything for this day. But, we have our lovely Papa and Mama coming by and I went to buy some KFC, but they were closed... it was about 9 pm then I went to the other only place that I saw open Little Cesar. Can you believe that I was one to last person to get pizzas? They run out of everything!!! I waited for an hour I guess for delicious pizza (well, mediocre, but consistant) that Mike was worried and he went driving to check on me (forgot my cell phone). But made it back with one hour to spare.

This is my first picture for my Weekend Picture Project (WPP) for this year. So, it is a bit late since the picture was taken the first weekend of the year, but I am trying to catch up now. :0 See how long I can go... By the way, the picture will be of anything and everything. Whatever catches my eye ;)

Grapes.... what grapes will bring this year?

First cleaning of the year. Took the Christmas tree outside. It was a good tree and Arianna helped us by playing music and sweeping. How nice of her.

Where is Misty? Where could she be?!

Too tired after a long day of cleaning and adventure!

Christmas Day Dinner

Ann hosted Christmas Day this year with a delicious roast beef and all the yummy trimmings. Those rolls where just plain delicious. Oh, I am sure Ezri would have loved to try them. She is so cute.

Arianna loves cats. She loves Ezri.



Very good gift from grandma and grandpa. After all she loves to color and draw!


Glenn playing bowling! Arianna cannot hit the pins yet (well she can, but she does not like to hit them). But loves the ball.


Grandma and Grandpa opening their presents.

Mike happy with his books and CD. Thank you everyone for all the gifts and the good wishes!

Morning of Christmas Day

We woke up early to open presents in the morning of Christmas Day and the picture that you see above is when I was talking to Mike and I forgot exactly what was the conversation about, but I said "it is not like Ari is going to pose for a picture" and well, she proved me wrong because she started posing... so funny!


This was my secret gift... I had no idea what flip was, but it was an awesome video camera. A small one and easy to use and to take everywhere. How cool is that :)

Misty is trying to figure out what the whole commotion is about or perhaps she was thinking where is my gift!


Arianna loved 2 gifts the most: Wonder pets and Wow wow wubzy. She also loved her trike once it was built. I will post a picture of that later.


She played for a long time with the school.

Oh, father and daughter exhausted and we had a full weekend ahead!