Coloring Eggs, Easter Baskets, and Easter

 Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a nice Easter, if you celebrated it. We had a lovely Easter. 

Our Easter celebration actually started Friday night with our annual egg coloring night. This was the same night that we had the bad pizza delivery experience, but we still tried to have some fun. We ended up coloring lots of eggs. The kids had fun, especially the boys when they decided to write things like "Uranus" on the eggs prior to dying them. Life with preteen boys is all I can say ;)

Saturday, it was raining and honestly, I just didn't feel like doing anything. So, we just hung around the house. In the evening, Rebecca and I attended the Easter Vigil mass, as Rebecca was singing in the Holy Week Choir for our church. It was a beautiful, long mass (it was 2.5 hours!). 

Sunday morning, the kids woke to find their Easter baskets before church, so breakfast may have been a piece of fruit and chocolate from their baskets. LOL 

Rebecca's basket had a book, how to knit kit, candy, bubbles and a frisbee underneath.

Jacob's basket had a Kermit (he loves frogs), a NFL draft magazine, bubbles, candy and a frisbee. 

Ben's basket had a new wrestler, a book, bubbles, candy and a frisbee. 

My basket had new sandals, a book and candy. 

Bill's basket had new sandals, the new Spiderman bluray, and candy. 

We all attended mass as a family and we actually all dressed up (we are typically in jeans). I took a picture of the kids before we left. 

In the afternoon, we headed out to my parents' house for dinner. It was a fun time with my parents', niece, nephew, my sister and her dog, and my brother and his fiancé. I didn't take any pictures that afternoon/evening, but just know that it was a simple, low-key, great Easter. 

Today, has been a long day. I was subbing for my co-worker so I went in to do breakfast this  morning. Thankfully, I think I did everything right and don't mind getting the extra hours. Then it was time to do kid pickups and then take kids to choir. Next week I believe is their end of the Spring season concert. We are entering that time of year, where there are a lot of end of the year things and events so I have to make sure I keep my calendar updated. LOL

I am going to end this right here as I am getting sleepy. I need to put Jacob to bed and then I am going to head to bed myself I think. I am exhausted. 

Have a good night! Until next time...

Hello

 Happy Good Friday everyone! It's been a minute since I have updated here. It is just the season of life I am in and sometimes things have to not be done and usually it comes down to this here space. 

So, what have we been up to... let's catch the highlights of what I can remember...

I took my mom and Rebecca to see Amy Grant in concert in our town. We went to dinner before hand at our local Mexican place and then went to the concert. It was a fantastic show and I am so glad we went. 

The weather has kept us all on our toes. One day it is sunny and 70, the next it is cold and 32, etc. Last weekend we had all 4 seasons it seems in a course of 24 hours including snow, sunshine, wind, rain and thunderstorms. Today it is wasn't too bad out but we have had a wind advisory. 

Work has been crazy. When we came back from Spring Break, I had to work with a sub and the health department came. So it was insane. The next day we didn't get our delivery of salads that were needed for lunch that day so that crazy and hectic. It has just been insane. Thankfully, we have a 3 day weekend this weekend so I can rest.

Kids are keeping me busy as usual, between school runs and choir runs, etc. Our church put together a holy week choir and Rebecca joined so I have been shuttling her to practice and we have had mass and service this week. We are getting ready for the end of the school year craziness so that should be fun. 

I just wanted to jump on here real quick for an update. Pizza just arrived (and of course now the order was wrong....urggh....) so I need to go deal with that. Hope everyone is doing well!  

Ben is 10!

Happy Sunday everyone! How is everyone's weekend going? Mine has been busy, as yesterday was Benjamin's 10th birthday!! How can it be that my baby is 10 years old?? Seems like just yesterday I had him. Crazy how time flies! 

We celebrated Benjamin all day. He got to pick out his lunch and of course he requested McDonald's and he wanted to eat there. So that is what we did. 😄

In the afternoon, he got to talk to his grandparents in Florida and thank them for a gift card they sent him in the mail. 

Then it was time to head to my parents' house for his birthday dinner pizza party. I decided to have it there as they have much more room than we do, and it is dog friendly for my sister to bring her dog. (I don't think her dog would do very well in our small home and with our cats!). I took over cut up cantaloupe and a huge salad to go along with pizza that I was going to order from a local pizza place. I also took along his cake that I had made him. 

He had a really fun time playing outside with his cousins. They played some basketball and practiced some baseball before dinner. He even played a couple rounds of "Guess Who" with my sister.  

After dinner, it was time for cake and presents. Ben loved his cake. I tried to incorporate his favorite things... WWE wrestling, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Battlebots and Legos. 

He received some nice things...including a couple of Hexbug Battlebots which he has been playing with all day today. He also received a couple wrestlers that he didn't have, a couple dress polo shirts for church, a Tom Brady t-shirt and a Tom Brady book. He was one happy kiddo! 

I still can't believe he is 10. I wrote this on Facebook as a tribute: 

Happy birthday to the craziest, loudest, Star Wars loving, WWE loving, Battlebots loving, Tom Brady loving, bracket loving, basketball playing, McDonald's loving, super opinionated kiddo out there! Ben, you've completed our family as the best son and brother we could have asked God for. 10 years ago, I had no idea the wild ride that I was taking on as being your mom, but I thank God every day that he chose to bless us with you! We love you! 

Happy Birthday Benjamin!