The Kassel Family Project Life 365

Our reward after a hard day of work – wine on the back deck after the kids are in bed.

Andy’s groundhog abatement is getting serious now…  He is filling up one of the entrance holes to the tunnel under our driveway with concrete.

He is risen!  He is risen indeed!  Happy Easter everyone!  We began our day at Easter Sunrise Service.  Unfortunately, it was raining so the service was held indoors, but I enjoyed this service anyway.  You could still hear the birds chirping outside and it was a great way to start our Easter morning.  Like always, we went to Bob Evans for breakfast, but skipped pictures at Shelter Gardens because of the rain.  The kids were very excited to get home to see if the Easter Bunny had visited.  John loved his Easter basket!

He particularly loved one of his new Minecraft books…

Laura was so excited to realize that not only did she get an Easter basket, but her American Girl dolls did too!

Laura just loved everything in her basket.

Then, it was off to hunt for eggs!  I must say that the Easter Bunny was tricky this year.  I suspect that we will be finding eggs for a while after Easter…

I particularly liked the location of this egg.

After the egg hunt, the kids opened all the eggs to a pile of candy while watching, “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.”

Because we did not go to Shelter Gardens for pictures, I took a few of the kids on our back patio.  The background with all the trees made for some nice pictures!

Andy and I spent the rest of the day doing some work around the house.  We have a new chandelier in our dining nook and John now has a ceiling fan in his room!  We had a great dinner and also got some relaxation time.  We did miss the Lowery Family and Uncle Jeremy, but we had a great Easter Sunday.

We dyed Easter Eggs today.  Hailey, one of our neighbors, came over to help.  The kids did a great job and made designs on some of the eggs.

This year, we had 36 eggs and nine different colors.

My favorites are always the darker colors, but I particularly liked the blue this year.

The finished eggs look great…

…and I see lots of deviled eggs in my near future!

It is Easter egg time!  First up, hard boil so that we can dye the eggs tomorrow.

Every morning I have a feeling of accomplishment when the kids are finally ready and waiting on the bus.  Why, you ask?  Possibly, it is the repeating myself numerous times or, maybe, it is the constant push and pull to get them breakfast and then ready.  That cup of coffee is heaven after this every morning.  But, they sure look cute in this picture!

I love a good holiday decoration.  I couldn’t stop myself from buying two of these bunny pillows.  It is a very good thing that we have a nice, large storage closet in our new house for all my holiday decorations.  Although, it is already pretty full…