I spent the better part of a night and one morning cutting gobs of egg shapes, circles, and squares out of paint sample cards for the girls to decorate. Originally I had intended the paint sample cards for another project so I only grabbed a bunch up in colors of blues and greens instead of every bright color....which would have worked better for Easter Eggs. The girls didn't care though and they embellished them with crayons, markers, cupcake liners, goggle eyes, feathers, stickers, and anything else their hearts desired. I made the mistake of showing the girls that they could cut the feathers to allow for "just a little hair" on top of an egg rather then a huge feather coming out of it's head. I had feather fluffy all over my house for days and days! I'm still finding pieces of it and they did it two weeks ago haha.
I made all these super cute Egg Holders using my Silhouette Machine. I doubled up the cardstock and kept most of them where I can take them apart for flat pack so hopefully we'll have them for several Easters to come!
You can see in the picture of our display at the top of the post that the kids also made Easter Picture Frames, some baskets, and cards. They had a very busy and creative Easter!!
This is what the girls found in the morning! EB had eaten the carrot sticks they prepared for him and he left a goodie bag of chocolates for Uncle Matt and a bag of Mini Eggs for Mom and Dad and a special letter for them!
EB always leaves the girls a letter.. As stated in the message the girls have been Diaper Free at night now for well over a month. We started working on that intensely right before their birthday and it didn't take all that long, but that is for another post another time!
Lilah's Easter Basket from the Easter Bunny! She found it hiding behind one of the big chairs in the living room.
Emmy's Easter Basket from E.B. aka the Easter Bunny! She found hers hiding in one of the kitchen cabinets. Each basket had a chocolate bunny, chocolate eggs both big and small, Nerd Candies, 2 Barbie Surprise Eggs filled with a small toy, sticker, hair accessory, and a big Barbie heart shaped Egg filled with similar sorts of goodies. They each got Sterling Silver Earrings (Emmy's where Minnie Mouse studs and Lilah's were dangle hoops with a heart shaped pink crystals from the Disney Princess Collection). They also had mini egg shaped story books, a box of Barbie or Princess Band Aids and a Seek And Find Book in their baskets! Not spoiled one bit. Oh and I almost forgot.....2 pairs of socks each! Emmy's had a Bunny and Stripes and Lilah's had Kitties.
Emmy & Brodie looking through the Easter Goodies!
I was festive and in the spirit of things with my bunny ears!
aawww! Lilah is looking so sweet in the dress that I made for her. You'd never guess that there was a little devil hiding inside of her hahahha!
It was now time for the Easter Egg Hunt!!!! Emmy got the left side of the front yard.
Brodie even helped Emmy find a few by running up to them and smelling them.... she thought that it was wonderful to have a little helper!
Lilah got the right side of the front yard and had no time for posing for the camera!
She's spotted one hidden in the palm bark. Can you see it too!?
This was Lilah's Map found in her MAGIC EGG. You can watch the video of them following the map if it doesn't show below HERE. Spoiler Alert: She got a portable karaoke machine.
Team Work....... Emmy helps Lilah follow her map!
Here's Emmy's Map from her MAGIC EGG! You can watch the video of them following the map if it doesn't show below HERE. Spoiler Alert: She got a Disney Princess Electric Guitar with Amp and Microphone.
Magic Egg Treasure Map #2
As soon as the girls got into the house they didn't waste any time and they were setting up for a performance. They stood about 4 feet away from Uncle Matt and sang for us. I think he was a little bit surprised at their lack of inhibition. Lilah is naturally more shy than Emmy but usually she'll come out of her shell if she has the safety net of her sister beside her. In the video below Emmy never really got going, and I wish I would have taken more video's because later on they did Katy Perry's "E.T." and she just belts out the chorus, but by this time of the day we had already had a jam packed morning with tons of pictures and video's so I was kinda over it.....my bad! If you don't see the video below then click HERE.
The girls singing "I Need to Know" from Barbie's The Island Princess.
Several hours later after the kids had have their fill of all the Easter Bunny presents Kim and I had one more for each of them. iPAD 2!!! The girls will not leave our phone's alone and they beg to play the apps constantly. So I guess you can say that these were as much of a gift to them as it was to ourselves haha.
We didn't have the Easter Bunny bring them because I wanted the girls to know they came from Mom and Dad and I knew if they got them in the morning then everything else would pale in comparison.
Below is the last video from Easter and it's of them getting their iPADs. I don't think at first they really knew what they were. Had I handed them an iPHONE they probably would have peed their pants hahahha because they KNOW exactly what they are and really really wanted one of their own! Again, if you don't see the video below then you can click HERE to see it.
Mom and Dad were sooooo excited to give this special gift!!
This is pretty much what happened for the rest of the night. The girls took turns sitting on Uncle Matt's lap and playing apps like Barbie Fashionista, Cake Pop Maker, Barbie I Can Be, and Angry Birds. For awhile he had both of them on his lap but I tried to keep it down to just one. House guests always want to be polite and won't say "hey, your kid is driving me crazy" so hopefully it wasn't too bad on him. I know the girls loved every minute of his attention and was very sad to see him go.
You are welcome to come and stay with us anytime you'd like to Matt! I loved that we got to spend a second special event with you. ( for those of you that don't know.....Matt was able to come to our Vegas Wedding and he was the one that walked me down the isle! )
Getting them to stand in a row and look at the camera was nearly impossible!!
Here's Lilah and Emmy all set up for Egg Coloring and waiting for our friends to arrive. They are shouting "HAPPY EASTER" for the camera! Notice Brodie-Boy is hanging out as always! He loves to be apart of the action!
Here we are in full swing. I had each station set up with paints, paint brushes, rollers, clear wax crayons, stickers, picture shrinky egg wraps, glitter, egg dipper, and egg stands with a set of egg stamps to share. Each Mom brought their own Eggs and containers to put as many colors as they wanted. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough cups to supply everyone and I think I was right because 5 colors x 5 set ups = 25 cups! Yes! I had my own colors and then each child did too.....I'm really just a big kid! haha The Mom's also bought decorating goodies too. I think the biggest hit was the Sparkly Diamante Stickers!
Here's our completed Easter Eggs that we did. (Emmy, Lilah, and Myself) It was so crazy around here and such a mad house that I didn't get a chance to snap a photo of the other collections. If you ladies took photo's when you got home of your eggs please email them to be and I'll update the post with them!
I had so much fun this year and the girls did too. Emmy got into the decorating much more than Lilah did, but there was big time distractions with having friends over and they all wanted to play with each other. I did more helping rather than decorating since it was a "party" affair, but I didn't mind because it was such a blast. If we have another Easter Egg Party, or any Craft Party in the future I think it would be best to first allow the kids to play together for an hour so they get that out of their systems and then they'll be more willing to totally focus on the craft at hand.
I bet you are wondering what we did with all these eggs huh!? We had an Easter Egg Hunt of course! That was a whole other day and will be a whole other post! I do have to show you the super cute Cake Pops that I made for our party!! Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Icing covered in White Candy Coating with Dark Chocolate Swirls on top and some sprinkles! Yummy!
