PEEPS!

For some reason, I always feel pressure when it's time to post an event {this time it's elijah's birthday party} So for now, we'll skip it, and I'll show you what I did today while they were at school. I realized this morning that Renée was starting Easter break a day early {tomorrow} so I frantically worked on these as soon as Elijah was at school. I had them there by lunch, so a fast project I must say!

I had grand plans of listing them on etsy weeks ago, with shirts to match, of course, but that never happened. This month was overtaken by parties, birthdays, and more parties--not that I' mind :) Then today, I found this project...my peep obsession has just been reignited!!!

Elijah is once again left with candy. It's much harder for me to do cute stuff for him. I don't think the boys would appreciate hair clips:) not to mention his teacher who does not appreciate the cute stuff at all! Per her request, we had to bring wrapped candy. I think that note was solely directed at me...we did our best. He was happy.

st. patrick's day 2010

Another holiday, another hair clip--at least that's what Renée and her friends think. They definitely came out ahead this year. Elijah was left with only green kisses. I had grand plans of sending him to school with green play dough shaped like shamrocks. If only I had started earlier than the morning of. I guess there's always next year, and seeing that I sent the candy in a big ziplock instead of on a cute card, etc. I have a lot to make up for! At this rate Hazel may never make it to school with anything!!

our valentines...

I may have gone a little overboard this year. Orum says that I spent WAY too much time on something for kids who just want the candy, but my kids were VERY excited about them. Hopefully their friends were too.

Both of their classes had Chineese New Year celebrations, so I thought take-out boxes and felt fortune cookies were a must! I made Elijah's first...his teachers wanted them 4 days before the party. can we say ocd?! After taking his 18 boxes apart, sewing the heart, and reassembling them, Renée's 12 boxes just got a label. It was pink. She loved it. Hopefully, making them for 3 classes won't lead me to the vday aisle at walgreens!

easter!

renee's spring break started on thursday...when you go to catholic school "holy thursday" is a holiday too! and since she got out half day on wednesday that makes almost 2 weeks of sleeping in:) anyway...we sent these cute treats to school on wednesday. i had big plans of doing egg cookies and sending them in little baskets, but when i couldn't find my egg cookie cutter i just did these. fitting though, since they are the "duck" class. and of course, when i put the last sheet in the oven i found the egg cutter...oh well.

thanks to jessi's mad photoshop skills i made the cute little tags. can those be called tags? i know if she had actually done them they would have been a little more intricate, but it was already past 1 and my ps skills are lacking to say the least...hopefully one day i will get some tutoring!yesterday morning we took the kids to the easter egg hunt at the church. of course, we were decked out in our CUTE easter outfits! {thank you aunt heather!} neither of the kids would keep the grass in their buckets!
and while we were waiting for the hunt to start {because we were actually on time/early!} we took a few pictures! these 2 are getting SO much better about pictures together....but i can't say the same when it's the 3 of them!
another holiday...another fever blister for renee! and this time with a double ear infection! we were out of drugs for the fever blister so we went to the doctor that morning. i know....AMAZING that i was so productive, so early on a saturday morning! anyway, while we were there he asked if she had complained about her ears. i said no. he said well, they are both infected. {it's been tradition that she gets an ear infection EVERY christmas, so hopefully we haven't added easter to the list!}

hmmmm.....this child! she has always NEEDED LOTS of sleep, and all day preschool has taken its toll! she now has fever blisters almost once a month! on friday morning she woke me up at 6 something and said she had a bad dream. i sent her back to bed, and went to sleep myself. when i woke up a few hours later...she was up and had been since 6 and also had those 2 beauties!

i know that its supposedly a myth that girls need more sleep than boys, but according to my kids it is FACT!!! Renee gets about 11-12 every night and i'm still dragging her out of bed for school. Elijah on the other hand usually wakes me up every morning a little after 7 and doesn't even have to get up! {oh how i can't wait to get back on a late schedule this summer! 7am and me DO NOT get along! and hazel sleeps until 10!}

anyway, we have drugs and she is already on the mend! back to easter...
see what i mean? the 3 of them posing together=lots of weird faces and wandering eyes...i keep hoping if i try enough that i could get 1 picture of them all looking happy and at the camera. still tyring!
here they are waiting for the rope to fall...Elijah was SO excited!! he was FINALLY getting to hunt eggs! last year would have been his first year to actually do it, but he was in his cast and was being pulled around in a wagon. cute, but probably not too much fun.

he seriously ran around like a crazy little boy picking up EVERY egg he saw! he didn't get the concept of only 12 eggs! i kept chucking eggs out of his bucket for the little ones.

hazel was actually awake for some of the activities, which is highly unusual! she usually sleeps through EVERYTHING!!!
orum was on "baby duty," while i was on "camera duty." i know that renee and elijah were so happy that he waited to study until after the egg hunt,and i think hazel may have been too!

can you guess whose bucket? of course, in true renee fashion she only collected pink eggs once again! i wonder how long she will keep this up!? after all that fun...hazel and her baby friend parker snoozed away in their carseats!

and of course, the bunny came! not much candy, but lots of fun stuff! the bunny even got crafty this year and made a dog and cat hooded towel. that bunny needs a LOT of practice with those! if they had been made in a factory, they would have gone straight to the "irregular" bin!! the kids like them and they LOOK cute on. i guess that's all that matters! hopefully they won't fall apart in the washer!

{sorry momma....the easter bunny stole the pink bunny because hazel's bucket was too bare!}
and no easter would be complete without seeing a cute baby in her easter bonnet! her tiny size 1 bonnet that mimi gave her for christmas FINALLY fits!

I'm now debating if im up for elijah and renee with egg dye!?!

happy easter!

cute favors...

i made a few party favors this year...the take-out boxes for lora's birthday and renee's school and the little mummy's for the playgroup party. Halloween is way more fun with kids who know what's going on!

although, i have to say they may be cuter in costumes when they are younger and possibly easier to photograph too...my absolute favorite costume is elijah's first halloween...he still had cute little baby legs!

see what i mean!?