What a Weekend!

I'm not sure we could have packed more into the weekend - we were so very b.u.s.y!

Saturday started out with Dakota studying while the kids and I cleaned the house. This was the first time they "officially" cleaned with me and it went well. I had them dusting, washing windows, putting things away, vacuuming.....all the good stuff for kids to help with. After putting in a good two hours they were both tired so I let them off the hook and set them up with a TV show while I finished up.

Dakota was done around 2pm and then she got to work cleaning the bathrooms (which is just something else I love about her - always willing to do that part). After that it was finally time to do what the kids had been begging and pleading to do all day - dye Easter eggs!

I had hard boiled the eggs the day before (and didn't lose a single one to cracks, thankyouverymuch. :) ) and the kids couldn't wait to get to work.

Yeah yeah - maybe next year we'll trust him to wear a shirt. Let's just say that they child is not all that careful about staying clean. Ever.

The kits we found for this year weren't the best but they worked. They had tiny stickers for the kids to decorate with but they were hard to adhere. I'm thinking a rubber stamp would have been easier. :)

But - the kids were happy and that is all that matters.

After we cleaned up we decided to go out and about for a while but what the kids didn't know was we were taking them to Chuck E Cheese for some pre-birthday celebration for Kelton. They had been really wanting to go and when I turned the car onto the street that would take us there we could hear Kaylen whisper to Kelton "Kelton - this is the way to Chuck E Cheese!" and Kelton said back "Really? Let me see." And then he started naming off the places we were passing and then he said "It IS the way!" When I got closer to the shopping area Dakota and I started talking about "a new store that sells home stuff..hope the kids won't be too bored..." to try to throw them off the track....and it did confuse them until I whipped the car into the parking lot.

Oh good heavens! The whoops and hollering from the back seat almost deafened us. :)

When we went in the check-in person asked if we were celebrating anything special and Kelton said "My birthday!" followed quickly by "But not with a party in your party room." That made no difference to the girl. She pulled out a Birthday Star sticker and wrote his name and age on it. He proudly wore that sticker for the rest of the evening. :)








After we finished spending all 120 coins, we turned in our tickets, collected our prizes and bid farewell to the Big Cheese. It was past dinner time so we decided to head to Azteca for some food.




We headed over to the grocery store next so we could pick up Kelton's birthday cupcakes, ice cream and a few other grocery items. From there we went home and got the kids to bed so that the bunny could do his job to prepare for morning.

Just as we were getting settled we remembered we forgot to get birthday candles! That would never do so Dakota raced out and picked up the number 7 for Kelton and the number 8 for his cousin Bailey, who would be sharing his party with him Sunday afternoon.

The bunny finally got everything done and even though it was after 10, we decided to watch one episode of West Wing (we're almost at the end of the second season). We headed to bed after and were woken at 5:45am when a little boy came bounding into our room and yelled "Happy Easter!!"

But Easter is a whole other post. :) Stay tuned! :)