Other half of April

Every year Todd's grandparents have an Easter egg hunt at their house. Here are the kids in their backyard:

Then they decorated Easter cookies:

In Abbie's Easter basket, she got an "Alice in wonderland" theme: A book, Queen of Hearts Tarts, and Tea Party Lemonade. (I printed out pictures and glued them on the packages):

Katherine got a bunny theme: carrot seeds, jelly beans in a rabbit jar, a real rabbit, Rabbit lemonade and a Peter Rabbit puzzle in a box (that she loves):

Alex and Nathan got: seeds, a popcorn bowl, jelly beans in a rabbit jar, chocolate milk (covered in an Easter picture that I glued on as well), a how to decorate cool sugar cookies book (for fun or for a business for them), magic card tricks, and a recipe binder to write down the recipes they learn with their daddy:

Todd made Easter bread bunnies:

Here are my beautiful and handsome kids ready for Easter Sunday:

For our homeschool group, I did an "author's guild" once a month for boy's club. The kids would write something on a theme I would give them, and they would come and turn it in at the activity that would have to do with that theme. This month it was "miniature theme" and I read "The Borrowers" with the boys and then they wrote about if they were little. The kids loved that book, and they are now convinced that Borrowers are real, and want to go in the crawl space with flashlights to look for them. For the activity, we met at the park and ate a miniature meal: pie, soda, banana, potato and hot dog (lil smokies in a bun Todd made) on little plates: