Pre-Easter fun/ cool new spot

Took advantage of the fact that Redner's eggs are on sale for $.99/dozen, and bought 3 dozen specifically for Easter egg dyeing purposes. We went old school on the eggs, and did without the packaged dyeing kits this year. Girlies had so much fun using crayons on the eggs, and then rolling the eggs in their designated color "baths." And, the eggs turned out great! I was impressed-- Abrielle had some really neat designs.

Big girls did a fun Easter weaving project this afternoon. The museum had a weaving display the last time we went, and they had been intrigued by the idea. So when I found this idea in a book, I figured it'd be perfect. They had a lot of fun with it.

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Dan has been looking for good spots for fishing that would be ideal for him to take the girls. He has high hopes for lots of fishing this season, and will be getting his fishing license this week. He's always enjoyed sharing his love for fishing with his girls, and they have always enjoyed going out with him. Maddie even caught a few sunfish last year all by herself!

Anyway, he found a little stream behind the duck pond when we took Faith and Abrie last week to play. And, I wanted to show this spot to Maddie so we walked down to the duck pond this afternoon (sans Dan, who was sleeping due to a late hold over at work). They had so much fun-- stomping through the stream in their boots, tossing rocks, picking wildflowers, pretending they were fairies, and just getting dirty.

Girlies had helped make posole yesterday for dinner (it was perfect in that it had so many ingredients, they could each help with several AND it made enough that it's been lunch and dinner now for 2 days straight) and a chocolate cake for dessert. It was a fun weekend!