This was an unusual convergence this year. Kaitlyn in particular thought it was a terrible one, since she had been hoping to prank all of her friends at school. I was also disappointede that there would be no Easter dresses, since we would just watch conference in our pajamas at home.
Oh well. We found ways to make it fun.
We had the annual cousin egg hunt the day before.
And then we headed up to the cabin to dye some eggs for the bunny to hide.
I just noticed there is a Christmas stocking in the background. Yikes.
The next morning we found eggs, and listened to Conference, since we forgot the TV box at home. It was actually a really eventful Conference- lots of changes!
And then I made "grilled cheese" and "cake" for dinner. It was actually angel food cake with "cheese" frosting in sandwich form, and the cake was meatloaf with colored mashed potatoes. I thought it was amazing that the kids were in the small house while I was making it all, but they were still quite surprised! I fooled them!
The kids each got a little stuffed peep from the Easter bunny, and Tyler made all sorts of little spots for them. They got a couch made out of dominoes . . .
And when we got home, he made them an entire house, complete with a couch and bed inside.
That week was spring break. So of course, on our week off from ice skating lessons, we went ice skating with cousins.
And our other project for the week was creating more computer stations. We had one computer for the kids ever since Tyler was about 4. But lately there had been more and more squabbles over whose turn it was, so we got a second one. We built the desk to have room for two, after all. What I didn't think through was that two was worse than one. Instead of one "chosen" child on a computer and two left out, two got the happy spots and only one was left out. So we needed to take out the center cabinet and make some leg room. The IKEA desk I got fit perfectly under there, though that chair had to go. Once Dad came back from his work trip, he got the third one set up, and it has been great. Each kid has their own space, and their computers have their own time schedule as well.
We were sad that we didn't get to go anywhere, since Chris was out of town, but at least we were productive!
