Robinson/Oliver Easter

After we went to the Easter egg hunt at TMC, we celebrated Easter with my family.

We had dinner - ham, sweet potato souffle, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, "Tootsie" rolls, and fruit salad! Pretty much all of my most favorite foods! haha :)

After dinner, we had a "big kid" egg hunt

The eggs were ridiculously hard to find.

Then we had dessert... me with my lemon bars :) (and we had Mississippi Mud Cake)

We finished the night by watching the Secret of Nimh - and I have NO CLUE why Olivia likes that movie so much haha... it's WAY over her head.

Easter Egg EGGstravaganza!

We went to The Ministry Center for their Easter Egg Hunt and had a great time! I really like that church and would like to start attending there if I could convince Ben's Traditional Southern Baptist roots that it IS ok to dance, sing loudly, and wave your hands in the air in a church service! I might just have to start going without him!

But anyway, we did have fun and got to see some friends who we haven't seen in a while!

This was Olivia's face.....

when she saw this..... the Easter bunny riding on a fire truck!! She thought it looked really funny!! haha

We went down the slide

She got to sit in the fire truck!

And Tristan did too!

Right before she started hunting eggs

She did not want to pick them up. She just wanted to watch all the other kids do it! Oh and this one mom - my Lord! She ran ahead of her kids and was shoving eggs in grocery sacks as fast as she could (She ended up with two sacks full). If you are a mom that does this - I DON'T LIKE YOU. Egg hunts are for the kids! C'mon!

She discovered a love of tootsie rolls!

And we got to see Jacob! (& Caden, but he ran off before the picture haha)

Dangerously Exciting Egg Dye Day

Otherwise known as Good Friday...

The day began with Olivia being kind of cranky so by 11:30 she was ready for a nap. I put her in her room and then went back over to my parents house to hang out with my sister. Ben was "in charge" of her. Apparently she did not fall asleep, and Ben was playing PS3 and didn't hear anything, but she emptied out her ENTIRE DRESSER in the floor. (As seen below) And she has a ton of clothes. It took me over an hour to fold everything and put it back. I was oh, pretty pissed to say it in a nice way!

Once she had taken a nap, we went back over to my parents house and started to dye eggs. Notice how dark it is outside... this was about 4 in the afternoon. An awful storm was coming (the one from Murfeesboro with the tornadoes and such), so it was almost pitch black outside.

Just as we were getting good and started on dying the eggs, the power went out!!

The storm started to hit and Ben came over and said the weatherman on News Channel 9 had said to head to basements/safe places to wait the storm out. So we left our eggs, found the cats, and headed down to the basement. Bailey was very scared and nervous. I felt bad for him. This toy was down there and it has a little lamp on it, which made Olivia feel better. You can see the look on her face as she's looking out the window at the wind and rain. She was nervous.

While we were down in the basement, Olivia kept asking what we were doing down there. My mom told her that we had to be careful because of the storm so she kept saying, "Caa-foo, Caa-foo!" She was saying careful, but it sounded a lot like "cat food"! It took a while to figure out what she meant!

After the storm passed, the power was still out so we finished dying eggs in the dark!

Just as fast as the storm came, it was over and light outside again, althought the power ended up being out for maybe 45 minutes.

Her hands were soooo stained! I tried rubbing alcohol, nail polish remover, soap... nothing would get it off! So I googled (from my phone, now b/c the power was STILL off) how to get it off and they said shampoo!! So I tried it (in the dark) and it worked! I was amazed.

The END RESULTS:

These in the basket are the ones I did, the others are the ones Becca & O did.

I love the way this heart turned out...

School Spring Party

Thursday was O's school spring party and she had so much fun! Usually when I walk in the door, she assumes it's time to go bye-bye and runs to get her bag (even on party days). BUT for this party, she wanted to stay and did not want to leave, so I ended up staying in her classroom and letting her play with her friends more. I just love staying in her class tho, because the kids are sooo funny and keep me laughing. That is the most fun bunch of kids!

Can you tell she just LOVES wearing things on her head... not!

CHEESE FACE

Miss Seneca showing off the yummy chocolate Easter bunnies!

ARE THOSE NOT AMAZING? They were little cakes dipped in chocolate and made to look like bunnies... from Federal Bake Shop, of course!

Ride em' Cowgirl!

I cannot believe I forgot to post these!

I LOVE THE ENORMOUS BOW!

I took these last Friday I think... and got some cute ones!

Don't you love that sassy little walk?


Boots = $4 New With Tags @ a consignment sale! SCORE :)

Love the hanging from the swingset pose...

^^Cheese Face^^

If I had a dollar...

for every time I said, "No Olivia! Cats do NOT like water; Bailey does NOT want to frimsuit with you!" I'd be a millionaire. Ok ok, maybe just like $100 richer. But in this economy, a hundred bucks is a fortune!

Olivia wanted to put on her "frimsuit" and go "frimsuiting" in the "suit". Yes, no lie. That's what she told me haha.

which of course translates to swimsuit, swimming, and pool.

AND IT WAS FREEZING!!!

SHE IS ADORABLE!

I bought her a truck load of toys at the KB Toys going out of business sale and have them stashed away for future birthdays, Christmas, and just the boring old rainy day. While yesterday wasn't rainy, this was to distract here from throwing my poor cat into the pool.

Why it's the cutest fishing set you've ever seen!

Except she thinks you are supposed to put the fish on the hook, outside the water. THEN release the fish into the water... future animal activist? Who knows. She's precious.

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

ok well not really, but it's been cloudy lately. I wish it would stay sunny like it was these two days!!

We have been having a blast playing outside!

Lollipop Princess