Last week Drew asked me several times why I was ironing.  This has really caused me to pause and laugh because apparently the sight of an ironing board set up is not something normal in this household!  Yikes…is that sad!?  Do my kids not know what an iron is? Am I failing to teach them something important in life?  Is ironing such a rare occurrence that we all walk around wrinkled?  Crap!

At Easter and Christmas, I do make an effort to coordinate nice outfits for our family and iron them!  Any other day, the shirts go up the street to the cleaners, or we walk out the door unpressed.  My daily outfit is work-out clothes so I’m not generally stressing about wrinkles.  I’ve been all over town and the internet trying to find clothes that will please my kids’ style for two days worth of celebrating.  Not an easy task, but I’m determined! Drew, for the record, we do own an iron, and if you need to get wrinkles out of clothing, it’s the best tool for the job.  When you go to college, I will buy you one.

Day one of celebrating the holiday – Good Friday.  We happened to be out of school for a teachers professional day and Jake managed to get a round of golf in at Lake Quivira and try out our new golf cart.  Yes, we are now the proud owners of a golf cart!  Our family really needs a bus-sized golf cart, but this will have to do!

Morgan had friends over to destroy my kitchen making cake pops and continued a fun day out at the lake “hammocking”…yes…this is a thing…

Drew got to go to a birthday party and Reece just ran the neighborhood (kidding…gma and gpa babysat) while I made an attempt to purchase new furniture for our family room.

Friday night we colored our eggs…I love this activity!

Saturday we celebrated Easter at my parents with a giant Easter Egg hunt (probably 150+ eggs), delicious food, fancy drinks, snuggles with their new puppy, and target practice. Because that’s a totally normal thing to do at Easter time, right!?  Only at the Michie Farm.

My dad is so cute and spent about $5 on this camo outfit for Morgan off the clearance rack at Wal-Mart.  You will learn that my dad is the thriftiest person on the planet and bound and determined to convert at least one grandchild into a hunter.  He has a big heart and Morgan is thrilled with her new clothes…she made a quick outfit change…

Here’s an adorable flashback photo of Morgan receiving her first camo outfit!!  I think my dad bought her this one as well.  Can you tell that he’s been trying to push her into hunting since day 1!!??

Here’s a video clip of her shooting clay pigeons…

Little puppy Tip seems to be smitten with Reece.  BFF’s for sure.

 

Reece has a tradition of lining up her Easter egg hunt loot into a glorious pattern!

She was super productive because she also read almost an entire chapter book to grandpa.  He might have been asleep…we’re not sure.  What we are sure about is he is the only one that had the patience to sit down and listen for such a long time!

On Sunday morning the Easter bunny had generously filled the kids baskets and we did our tradition of hunting for the “Golden Egg” from clues hidden in the house.  Reece wasn’t entirely convinced the Easter Bunny had brought her anything of value but I convinced her otherwise.  She got a new fishing pole!  Papa…she’s ready to come out to the pond!

We dressed up in coordinated outfit #2 (wrinkle-free) and made it to church on time!  A little snafu occurred with our brunch plans so we had to make a quick trip home to change into jeans and sweatshirts and ate outside!  Scott and Morgan powered through multiple giant chocolate covered strawberries and declared themselves the champions of chocolate covered strawberry eating.  I’m certain we have consumed enough calories for 2 weeks!

We did an egg hunt in our yard…first time ever!!  This Easter Bunny did such a great job that we had trouble finding all the eggs.  oops!

Reece absolutely loves arts and crafts, so we spent part of our afternoon making this cool thing…everybody should have one of these sitting on their living room shelves!!

We only had one soccer game and one baseball practice to contend with and that closes the books on another fun-filled Easter weekend!!