It's been a busy few days....

....and so I've enjoyed a quieter day at home today....in between the egg hunts and Easter fun, I've done some art journaling and pottering about in my bedroom and even had a nap :)

Ready for another busy day of fun tomorrow :)  

Happy Easter everyone!!!

xxx

Egg hunt fun :)

The children had fun hunting for eggs inside this year - due to all the the snow and wet outside.

They were still very happy though - it still resulted in plenty of candy :)  

A few snapshots of our Easter Day so far.....

It has also included, croissants and jam, hunting for toys and eggs, painting nails, playing with toys, eating chocolate, relaxing, drinking coffee in the sunshine, chatting with friends..enjoying a day at home....

I hope you are having a lovely Easter day wherever you are and whoever you are with...I hope the sun is shining :)  

Cupcake Heaven at our place :)

I found an easy peasy recipe for a light vanilla frosting for cupcakes, on Pinterest, and I thought Easter would be the PERFECT time to try it :)  So this evening Laurence whipped me up a batch of cupcakes  (his specialty) and I decorated them in a fun Easter design for the kids - with pink bunnies and sprinkles and whatever :)  They were a big hit of course :)  

Easter Saturday...

Well, my day started amazingly well, as I hunted through my closet for a small bag to use for the day - I found my old little black one from Vegas, and inside was $85!!!!!  :)  Woooot!!!  :)  Score!!!  So that is Easter covered :) It was just what I needed :)  

Today was a lovely day!  

Laurence decided to stay home and play his computer games online - he doesn't actually do that very often, so it was nice for him to relax and have the house to himself.

I took the younger three to the Easter Extravaganza at the Telus World of Science.  We have annual membership there as a family, so it doesn't cost us anything to get in.  Today they had all kinds of events for Easter happening - including an egg hunt - where you had to hunt for plastic eggs throughout the galleries and exchange them for chocolate eggs later on!!  In one section you had to 'earn' them by doing activities on the sports equipment :)

Susannah and Abby had to do a wheelchair sprint to win their eggs :

Sam had to climb the wall to get an egg:

The eggs were all delicious Purdy's eggs, and they were VERY generous with them :)  

Another great activity at the science centre today was designing  a 'vehicle' to transport an egg safely down two stories without having it break!  You could use a variety of things from sticks, tape, balloons, bags , straws, string etc etc.....

Then we held them over the balcony and watched them fall two stories and a guy at the bottom opened them up to check on the egg and see if it was broken or not :)

Abigails cracked, but Sams didn't, so Sam DID IT!!!!  Yay!!

After that we went in the star theatre and watched a movie on  Molecules and atoms :)  We had seen it before but it was one we all enjoy :)  

While at the science centre we also watched a show called Fire and Fury.  Abigail even went up as a volunteer to help at one point AND she got to name the gummy bear that they set fire to at the end :)  

It was a show full of bangs and explosions and big flames and was really interesting!!  

We all really enjoyed it!!

And yet another highlight of our Easter trip to the science centre, was meeting the little cornsnake:

Both girls have decided that now want snakes as pets :)  

Hmmmm I think I could handle that - I like snakes :)  

All in all, despite the science centre being busier than I have EVER seen it...I have to say that we had a fantastic day there - they really did put on a great Easter festival and exhibit and I am sooooo glad we went :)  The kids al had a great time AND learned something.  The staff were FANTASTIC!!!

And it was great fun :)  

Good Friday 2012

We spent our morning relaxing - Abigail did more sewing - she stitched a denim bag out of a pair of shorts as well as a couple of other things.  Sam played outside for a while building a fort with Rosie.  Everyone showered and got cleaned up.  We all headed out to buy rubber boots ready for The Prairie Gardens, which will be VERY muddy :)  

I was thrilled to find a game of scrabble for $3 which I have been looking for for AGES!  I need the game pieces to make charms for necklaces to sell!  I am so excited to now have a whole bag of them to experiment with :)  

This evening we headed to Katies Crossing, which we had all been looking forward to - yay it is now reopen for their amazing fries and onion rings :)  

We were given a bowl of chocolate eggs for the children as part of the meal too, so we took them home and ate them while we watched our movie:  'We Bought A Zoo'.  Such a lovely movie :)  

It was a lovely day:

Yummy onion rings:

The sun on the melting snow was quite dazzling!!

I hope you had a lovely Good Friday, wherever you are and whatever you did.  

Friday fill-ins....

Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! Here we go!

1. Eggs are a big part of our life right now - farm eggs from Trish (yum) learning to cook all kinds of new ways with eggs (Laurence, Abby....) crafts with eggs, baby chicks, egg hunts, art, chocolate, geodes, .
2. Springtime is awesome! Seeing everyone come out of hibernation...all the activities and parkdays, seeing everyone out on their bikes, being outside more.  Daffodils :)  
3. When I look in the mirror,I am pleased with what I see, I think I look young for my age and content - and that is what I am.
4. Good company...laughter....these are the things I like for a special dinner! 
5. Currently, I am waiting for Susannah to get out of the shower so that I can get in, so that we can finally head out for the day!! Abby has had her shower already....
6. I am looking forward to playing the new Easter games on Sunday.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to our Evening out, tomorrow my plans include the Easter fun at Telus World of Science and Sunday, I want to enjoy family fun at home!Then on Monday we are off to The Prairie Gardens to splodge in the mud and enjoy the Easter fun there :)  A whole weekend of Easter enjoyment :)  I love Easter!!!

Snow day!! April 2012

Abby has been very creative!  I chose a ton of library books for her while she was in a class last week, and she sat and went through them today and found a craft she liked - turning old gloves and socks in to soft toys.  Her sewing skils are coming on really well - as is her imagination.  I love what she made - she then created one for Sam too for Easter :) 

Cuddles and smiles and playing and reading and LOTS of love with my Sammy boy this morning.  He has also been outside building a fort and playing in his room...He's had a fun day all round:

My Rosie Posie isn't too impressed with all the cold and snow, BUT she did have fun outside chasing the snowballs Sam threw for her :) 

Sam playing with his collection of transformers.  Today was very much a pj day after all the cancellations we had because of the bad weather and snow storm:

My Mirror wall in my bedroom:

Saw this on FB and thought it was great :

Been thinking about a certain someone...and wondering..

sigh......