Easters Time

Yes, I meant to pluralize. If you know the movie referenced in the title, then I love you. But really, I'm too tired to write anything besides captions. Here's Easter 2012...

Easter basket, Easter sandals, Easter morning breath/smiles.

After an egg hunt in the backyard (I thought I was genius for filling the eggs with individual hair clips instead of candy), we hiked down to the park by our house.

Then, after an early nap, we dressed up for the occasion.

And took a family photo at our usual spot in the garden.

Marlowe definitely takes after me when it comes to egg hunting/anything that can be participated in as a competitive sporting event.

After an awesome dinner with the family, we headed back outside for bubbles*.

We hopped in honor of the holiday.

*note Mar's drunk eyes in the bubble picture above--this is the face of a child who is literally high on sugar. Our decision to let her indulge on the candy in BOTH baskets from the grandparents (she usually eats sugar in the form of fresh fruit), was a HUGE mistake. The result was a two day bender of the following horrible things: no sleep schedule, tantrums, slightly elevated temperature, no appetite, stomach/ear aches, and delirium. Lesson learned.

Our Rockin' Weekend

We've been up to our usual around here. For me, it's procrastinating. For Elgin, it's tinkering around like the 65-year-old man that I swear he is, underneath it all. For Marlowe, it's just being awesome. The semester is quickly approaching its term, which means I'll be hunkering down in the next few weeks. This past weekend, however, somehow I managed to get my pertinent work done in advance, which allowed for basking, guilt-free, in the freedom of 2 entire days. I'm really, really good at not wasting a second of time when I'm enjoying what's going on around me--so our weekend was jam-packed with good stuff. Sadly, there aren't photos to document everything we did (like going to see the musical "Rock of Ages," which was hands-down the best show I've seen- EVER, or celebrating our friend Molly's birthday-this might not be a bad thing though), but...you win some, you forget your camera on most.

We watched "Frozen Planet" last week, and ever since, Marlowe has been searching for buffalo in our backyard. Now when we are out back, she insists on picking a bouquet of flowers, shoving them through the fence at a very particular location, and checking back the next day to "see if those buffalos ate 'em." Love that imagination, girl!

We tried an initial round of Easter festivities, using our own home-grown eggs.

The boys came over to join Marlowe in an afternoon of easter egg hunt "practice," lunch, and a long, long nap. These kids are the best :)

After weeks of talking about it, Marlowe finally got her first mani/pedi. The mani was ruined before I finished painting, and 5 of 10 toenails were color-less by the end of the night.