Easter 2015

This years Easter was quite the busy holiday.  It was three days of fun, no naps, and lots of sugar.  The kids and I headed up to my parents house on Friday morning to attend Grandma's final resting ceremony.  Later that afternoon we dyed eggs with Papa.  Madden dyed one egg and decided he was over it.  Skylar and Papa did a great job painting and dying all their eggs and Maddens.

Auntie, Unc, and Lennon were over and spoiled the kids.

Saturday the whole family went over to Aunt Elsa and Uncle Jon's for our traditional Easter celebration.  The kids immediately hit the pool.  

Skylar swimming in the spa with cousin Lennon.

Big jumps to Dad.

Working on his tan.

Nana, Papa, and Lennon.

Lennon, Madden and Skylar opening their Easter baskets from Nana and Papa.

After eating Larry's famous pork chops and urging the kids to eat all their pork by promising them the egg hunt.  The hunt was on.  Madden likes to tell Jake or I that he will hold the basket while we find the eggs for him.  Luckily he loosened up a bit and did the egg hunt by himself.  

Cousin Daniel helping Skylar find some eggs.

Aunt Sandra counting Skylar and Carmen eggs.

A happy egg hunter!

Madden quit the hunt earlier than the rest to start eating his candy.  He was the lucky one to find the golden egg with $5.00 in it, which when he opened he just threw on the ground and continue to look for more starburst.  If you just followed the starburst wrappers you knew where to find Madden.

Later the confetti eggs came out.  Skylar was the only one who came out confetti free.

Easter morning the Easter bunny was a little trickster and hid the kids basket in our guest room shower. 

The kids got new swimsuits, books, cups, bubbles, paint supplies, squirt guns and lots of chocolate eggs (which was Skylar's request).

 

The Easter bunny also got Madden Paw Patrol underwear which he was so excited about (can't you tell by his face), but do you think he would want to wear them....OH NO....but that's another story for another time.

The beautiful Finkel Family was kind enough to invite us over for Easter Sunday Brunch.  Janet made an amazing spread of food and put on the best egg hunt for the kids.  

My little Easter Chicks.  I had to brib them to take this picture by promising them more candy.

Skylar and Mackenzie preparing for the egg hunt.

Janet had eggs filled with tons of candy, balls, coins, my little ponies for the girls and cars for Madden. 

Easter eggs overload!  We came home with more candy than I have ever seen.  I told Jake that I think the kids got more candy on Easter than they did on Halloween.

It was great spending the holiday with some of our best friends and we hope to make it a tradition for here on out.  The kids had a blast and I'm sure a five pound weight gain is in my future with the two baskets full of candy at my house.  Hoppy Easter to all!

March 2015

A month of March Madness for the Ernest Family!

With it being in the 90s for most of March, you never would of remembered it actually rained a bit in the early days of the month.  Maria took Madden out to jump in puddles.

Celebrating Dr. Suess' Birthday at school.

Thursday Play dates at Avaria Park with Skylar and her classmates.

Lunch at Fidel's.

Cruising the neighborhood looking for sprinklers to run though.

A Madden and Maria beach morning.

Skylar started swim lessons again.  

Legoland Date with Daniel

More beach trips with Maria.

Celebrating St. Patricks Day.

More beach time.

We ended the month of madness with a family movie date at cinepolis!

Bressi Easter Event

This weekend, us ladies from the Bressi Ranch Social Committee put on our first event of 2015.  It was time to ring in Spring and throw the neighborhood Easter social.  We had a wonderful Easter bunny who couldn't of been sweeter.  The kids had crafts to do and games to play to win prizes.  

Madden had another rough go with the Easter Bunny.  This was probably his worst experience with any holiday character to date.  With him getting bigger and more physical I thought he was going to hurt her.

I had such mothers guilt after that.  It was as if I was torturing him and CPS should of been called on me.  It put him in such a sad mood for the beginning of the event. 

Skylar, of course, all smiles!  

Sophie, Skylar, Mila, and Abigail!

The kids got to make bunny hats and decorate eggs ornaments.

Madden slowly starting to have fun.

Love these two bunny besties!

Thought it was best to leave Madden out of the family bunny photo.  

Skylar and her love Daniel.  She says she is going to marry Daniel.

Back to 100% and playing ball with Dad.

Playing games to win stuffed eggs, bunny whistles, and Bressi beach balls.

Skylar hanging out with the Kurisu brothers, Nathan and Dylan.

Skylar and her great friend Ellie.  Ellie is in her dance class and goes to the same school.  And pretty recently we discovered we live in the same neighborhood and are only a couple houses away.  They have become the sweetest little friends that Skylar spend the last hour of the event just running around with Ellie.

After taking pictures with tons of kids the Bunny got up and did a conga line and played games with the kids.  They wouldn't leave her alone.  I was amazed she was able to sneak away at the end of the event.

It was the perfect way to kick off Easter for the whole community.  We received a ton of positive feedback and it looked like all the kids had a great time, which is all that matters in the end.