Easter Dinner

Sophia and Uncle Nick

Rachel and Leo

Jacob and Sarah

These three have mostly graduated from the kids table! :)
Cody, Andrew, and Cole

Christos Anesti!

I made a homemade chocolate cream pie...decorated Easter style of course!

For the kids I made sheep cakes.  I hesitated even taking a picture of them because they were awful.  The picture so looked so cute and easy, but let me just tell you I cussed these little lambs up one side and down the other.  The only saving grace was that the kids didn't notice their flaws, Leo literally screeched in delight and they tasted good.

  

Time for the egg-cracking game!

It is Greek tradition that you smash your egg against someone else's in hopes of becoming the one lone victor at the end of the evening.  It's a fun game that kids and adults both become rather competitive over! 

Easter Morning

Sophia found her basket behind a stack of pillows on the couch

Leo went straight for the candy.

Leo's basket was in the front hall closet

Leo scored a new set of goggles and a new pair of sunglasses so it only makes sense to wear them together

church time

We love Glendy!

They are not listening to pesky rules, just waiting to be told ready, set, GO!

Leo stopped at every egg and checked out what was inside.  If it was to his liking, he dumped out the candy and left the egg on the floor.  Little scoundrel.  

Normally the egg hunt is outside but it was a little soggy, too bad

Sophia changed into her "fast shoes" just for the egg hunt

Sorting loot

Dying Easter Eggs!

Greek Easter was just last weekend so on Friday afternoon we dyed our eggs.  This is a favorite activity for my children, especially Leo.  He gets so incredibly excited that I wish I had taken some video of it.  In many of these pictures you can see the pure joy on his face! 

Both the kids have distinctly different approaches to dying eggs.  Leo likes to just let 'em rip and start dropping eggs in all the colors.  Sophia likes to take her time and find the right color, let it soak, make some in multiple color layers, etc.  This was difficult b/c I had to monitor how many eggs each kid had. When Leo ran out of his eggs he resorted to dying the same eggs over and over, and over...and over.  Surprisingly they turned out pretty cool looking!

I found these awesome Q-Tip things filled with color to make fine designs on the eggs and they were awesome!  I will definitely seek them out again next year and probably buy a few packages.  They don't have a ton of dye in each one but they look really neat and both kids enjoyed using them.  Paas makes them for anyone who's interested! ;)

Preschool Open House

Bama, Daddy, and Leo get a good seat!

Sophia sitting with her class

showing off some of her art work

Here is a butterfly and dinosaur picture she made

This is the story that goes with her dino picture

 I took lots of videos of her performances but I guess the rest must have been too long because I couldn't get them to post.  Major bummer.  She is quite a performer.  In this clip though you at least get to see some of her performing qualities shining! :)