Easter Prep

We spent a lot of the day at home getting ready for Easter. We started the morning with making Easter cookies. They each laid out the cookies how they wanted, but that's not exactly how they ended up being cooked ;)

This afternoon we did our first ever egg dying. They did really well (of course it didn't hurt to have grandma around as an extra set of hands). We used a little trick of putting the eggs in muffin pans to keep the eggs safe and putting the eggs inside whisks to dunk them - soooo easy! (Thanks Pinterest!)

We got crafty this afternoon and made some egg garlands to hang around the house. It's amazing what you can transform paint sample chips into. They're all hanging in the kitchen and look very fun. Now we're a little more festive for this weekend coming up.:)

And Parker managed to check out some of the "basketball guys". He loves to watch and cheers for everyone. About every fifth basket, he wants to give someone a high five. He got good and comfy watching the Iowa State game this afternoon and doing his part for March Madness (and had only a teeny tiny bit of help with his props ;)