Easter Pictures

Easter preschool

Preschool was at my house for the week of Easter. We had egg games, decorated bunny baskets, put eggs in a nest (chocolate eggs in a chocolate nest!) and had singing and dancing, of course! Alex and Katelyn are my awesome helpers, couldn't do it without them!

Easter 2011

Grandma and Grandpa Clift came over the day before Easter and we dyed easter eggs. Katelyn and grandpa were the big time dyers, they spent the most time very carefully making designs. I like to buy 5 dozen eggs so that they can all dye as much as they want--but now I'm stuck with all those eggs and it feels like we're eating them for every meal!
After eggs we went out to eat and then for a walk. What a fun day!

Easter morning the kids woke up to Easter baskets. Very simple this year, it seems like the Easter bunny gets simpler and simpler every year, wonder if they've noticed!?

After church we went over to Grandpa Mills' house for an Easter egg hunt and dinner. It was so great visiting, and dinner was delicious!

Spring Piano Recital

This is the first time I've done a spring recital in a long time! Usually life is just too crazy! But I really loved it. More students came than normal, I was only missing 2 families (4 kids). We played potato sack races, spoon and egg (plastic) races, and a couple of little Minute to Win it games. And we had a potluck. I always wish that there were 3 of me when it comes time for a recital. I never get enough pictures, and don't have enough time to visit with parents because I'm playing with the kids!

There are a couple pictures of students that are on my phone and not in this post because I left my camera in Joel's car who I sent off to the store to buy ice. Benjamin performed at his first piano recital, and Alex and Katelyn of course played and did fantastically! I had 3 flute students play. I only got a picture of one of them because one of my flute students I played a flute/piano duet with, and the other student I played a flute/flute duet with. (That was so much fun I really miss playing the flute everyday!)

It was a really great recital, there were all sorts of different genres of music, songs from the radio, songs from movies, classical, romantic, jazz, folk, and more!

Church Easter Egg Hunt

I made him stop to pose for a picture during the egg hunt and he said I was "cramping his style!"

Katelyn opted to just help Ben get eggs this year. I'm not really fond of this growing up thing.

Before the egg hunt.

Joel was in charge of this year's Easter egg hunt at church and I thought we were going to be really stressed about getting it all ready and getting the BBQ ready, but he did a great job delegating, and we had some great people in our ward to a ton of work so it was very enjoyable! Lots of candy, and food and visiting with good friends!

Cute

Mom: "Ben, how come you're so cute!!?"

Ben: "Because you so cute!"

Just melts my heart. All ready a lady's man!

Drive-in

Our friends invited us to the drive-in movies last week, and even though the movie didn't start until 8:00, I managed to get my husband to agree to tag along. The kids had a really fun time and want to only see movies at the drive-in instead of the theaters from now on.