Easter Pix

Trying out Picasa. I was stubborn before and didn't want to switch, preferring instead the clunky Kodak EasyShare program that came with my camera.

Oh, silly stubborn Lisa. Picasa is better. SOOO much better. After just 10 minutes using it, I can see that.

And it's FREEEEEEEEE..... (Think Bedtime Stories, if you've seen that. Our new movie quote. lol)

I just hope my photo tags are still usable in Picasa. I've been very faithful about putting those on every single photo I've uploaded in 2009.

So, without further ado, here are pix of Easter Sunday egg decorating and hunting and....



..... and of the attempt to get a nice pic of the four kids together.

You'll see why I call it the "attempt".



I apologize if you are still on dialup. These probably won't work well for you.

Easter

Ok, I was not all prepared for this Easter thing. So, we ended up dying eggs today. Actually tonight. lol Usually we do it earlier in the week, but, well, we just didn't. But it was fun anyway. Here are some pix from that.

We also had a treasure hunt for the Easter baskets today. Each kid had his or her own hunt to find the baskets. Before you go thinking how creative I am, let me point out I use ready-made treasure hunts from a Klutz book called The Treasure Hunt Book (see product link below). V. cool.

Lunch was ham, salad, rolls, whipped Jello, and slushies. (Yes, the recipe came from Taste of Home magazine!) We were supposed to have scalloped potatoes, but they weren't quite done (despite following the Taste of Home recipes - wince - so we had those for dinner instead with leftover ham. The slushies were a big hit! (And, yes, those ARE my Lord of the Rings goblets. I need one more. They do still light up! Cool, huh? Everyone needs a set of these!)

My parents had sent home an Easter 'bag' for the kids (see pic) and they opened that to find yummy chocolate bunnies and jellybeans! Thanks, Mom and Dad!

I took a 3 hour (!?) nap this afternoon. Wow, that was nice.

The kids played outside. It was chilly but sunny and sort of had a springtime feel in the air. They built some kind of house from sticks for over an hour and were all excited to come tell me about it!

We went to an Easter breakfast at church this morning, which was nice and relaxed. There was a drama about the resurrection. Then the actual church service followed. The pastor is doing a series of sermons based on Max Lucado's book 3:16. (see link below). There are video clips that go along with each section. I really find Lucado's stuff valuable so I am enjoying the series. A special Easter choir also did a short presentation which was lovely. Wish I could have been in it. One of these days I'd like to participate in something like that. I love to sing.

Marshmallow Bunnies

Was looking through some Quick Cooking and Taste of Home magazines and the kids saw a cute Easter food craft that we decided to do today. Here are some pix and a link to the recipe.
















How cool is it to have kids old enough so that I can just say, "Here are the instructions and the stuff you need. Have fun!" And afterwards they can clean up too. (However, they do need reminders to do that! lol)