Kinsley School Egg Hunt

On the Thursday before Easter, Kinsley had an Easter egg hunt at school. I was nervous that she wouldn't know what to do being that she has never done it before. Needless to say, she was a rock star and collected a ton of eggs.

I guess it was easy for her being that some of them were grouped together.

When she realized that there was something in the eggs it slowed her down. She wanted to shake them and open them to see what was in them.

After the hunt was over, Kinsley would not let go of that basket if it saved her life. The whole ride home she kept it on her lap. When we got home and she dumped all the eggs on the ground, she happened to sneak an M&M in her mouth and that was her first taste of chocolate.

Easter Treats

I made some Easter treats for Kinsley's friends at school and I also put one in my Easter buckets for her friends and family. My co-worker also asked if I would make some for her and her family (which I did).

To make the carrots I brought disposable cake decorating bags (12 inch). I filled them approximately 3/4th fill with goldfish crackers and tied a green ribbon around it. It's as simple as that.

I wanted a unique way to present my carrots and I came up with the idea of the carrots being in the ground so the kids would have to pull them out so to say.

So, I got a shoe box and measured and cut 2 inch holes. I used a circle cutter to make a perfect circle.

Once all my circles were cut, it looked like this:

To see what it was going to look like, I put the lid back on and put a carrot in one of the holes. Being that I was happy with it, I wrapped the entire shoe box with brown paper. After I wrapped the lid, I turned it upside down and used an X-acto knife to cut out the brown paper that covered my holes.

Once I was done, I put all my carrots in the holes and added a sign and a bunny rabbit for effect. The one below is the one I did for my co-worker.

This is the one I did for Kinsley's school. My boxes were smaller so I had to break them up into two boxes.

I slit a hole in the box and put the sign in the hole and added flowers around the sign.

Originally I was going to paint over the sign and write "get your carrots before the bunny does", but I ran out of time and thought it was cute as is. Instead I added a sign in front.

Teacher Appreciation Month

April is Teacher Appreciation Month. In Kinsley's class a parent is taking a week and doing something for the teacher. I took the first week and decided to give them 2 small gifts.

In Kinsley's class she has 3 teachers. One of the gifts was a mason jar filled with jelly beans. I made the "thank you" tags and tied it around the jar. Simple but sweet!

The second gift was a watering can filled with little treats. I attached the tags I made that said "Thanks for helping us grow".

Teachers do a great deal for our children (especially at Kinsley's age) and it is important to let them know that you appreciate them.

The tree is gone!

Finally the tree is gone. Keith and his dad just recently took it down and I am so happy it's almost gone. We are still working on getting the stump out - it was supposed to be done already but we had to reschedule.

In the picture below you can actually see how BIG the tree really is.

While Keith and his dad were taking down the tree, Mrs. Potter and I were playing with Kinsley behind our house. We are very fortunate to have two playgrounds literally right behind our house.

Every now and then I would sneak a peek through the gate to see how the boys were doing. Here they have the top half of the tree down.

YAY! It's all down!

Now for the clean up. You can see the gate open in the background... that's where they would dump the tree remains. Now that's an easy clean up.

And this is what remains (for now).

Also, we have JASMINE growing all over our yard! I love the smell of Jasmin!

"Night Night Maverick"

While I was messing around in the Kitchen, Kinsley went and grabbed her blankets and a pillow and drug them into the kitchen. She then made Maverick lay on the blanket and go "night night" and would cover him with the other blanket. If he would try to leave the kithchen she would chase him and yell "NIGHT NIGHT...NIGHT NIGHT" and guide him back to the blankets. It's so funny to watch her with him. And he is so wonderful with her (and for that I am thankful).

Easter Buckets

For Kinsley's cousins, close friends and neighbors I made these Easter Buckets. Since they are mostly little ones I wanted to stay away from candy. I figured they would get enough of that on Easter as it was. I made the Happy Easter tags for each bucket and filled them with varies toys and activities! I hope everyone enjoyed them as much as Kinsley did.

Update

First off, let me apologize for not updating my blog the last 2-3 weeks. It's been a little hectic in our house. Kinsley has been sick with something the last 2-3 weeks. It started with a stomach bug... then came the congestion, cough and ear infection all at the same time causing her temperature to go as high as 103.6. Now we have a possible tooth coming in mixed with congestion and a slight cough. Of course that means Keith and I have been sick at some point in the last 2-3 weeks and ontop of that Maverick managed to hurt himself the other day (nothing major). With that I have had project after project (which is partially my fault). Since I am the class mom for Kinsley's school, I have a lot more responsibilities as a parent. We have 2 of the 3 teachers birthdays that I am having to organize collecting money for gifts and going out to get them. April is also Teacher Appreciation Month that I am having to organize with the parents. I did gifts for the teachers for the first week, and I am making the other moms take week 2-4. Also, it is Easter this Sunday (YAY!) and I am 90% done with my Easter "buckets" for Kinsley's friends in our neighborhood and outside of school, along with her very special cousins (12 total). I also have Easter treats I made for Kinsley's friends at school (which I had to make and extra set for one of my co-workers who kindly asked me too). I also had to stuff a billion Easter eggs with candy for Kinsley's class Easter Egg Hunt which I am volunteering for tomorrow. Like I said, this is partially my fault. Of course in every project I do I end up doing some sort of "arts and craft" project with it. This is what I enjoy, but 30 projects at once is a little much. At least after Friday I will be all done. I will also be sure to post pictures of all my projects. I will also post pictures of the tree in our back yard that Keith and his dad took down. I am so glad it's almost gone. When I say almost, we still have to get rid of the stump which we decided to hire someone to do this time (Keith did it in our old house and it was a HUGE chore).

As you can imagine, I have been a little busy the last 2 or so weeks. I will hopefully have some time this weekend or next week to post a few updates of Kinsley as I am sure that's what you really want to see.

Hope everyone is having a great week!