The festivities....

I worked last night, so this is going to be a little catch up from yesterday's festivities. To start off, the Easter Bunny apparently has stock not only in Easter Eggs, but also the yarn company....

Thank goodness for a coworker who spilled the beans on what she used to do with her kids so I could totally copy cat it! It was fantastic. After he sadly looked through Shane's Easter basket thinking how lame the basket was, I decided to put the kid out of his misery and point out the note that said he had to follow the string to find his basket! Best thing ever (not the basket, just the string)!!!! He loved the yarn trap so much that we compromised  and I let him keep the yarn in his room .He added to the creation, and in his compromise,  he let me take the rest down through the other rooms of the  house so you could actually walk a step without pretending you were a ninja (although that was pretty awesome)....

He named his yarn creation  the spider and it was one of the "events" at his Easter party....

Of course when you have awesome events, you  don't want your guests to get lost, so a good host will always  point the way to the activities....

Also planned party activities were.....

and you can't have an Easter Party without one of these....

Thank goodness for the sign and picture clue or I think the kids would all have been at a loss! The kids had a good time, but then again (at least in Buddy's opinion) anytime you're surrounded by others, it's a good time....

It was a super fantastic day, I even put a dress I've had my eye on for a while in my Easter basket....thank you Easter Bunny, I mean thank you me....

I'm sad we didn't get any better pictures, but we had to run to church so someone could get called to be the new Cub Master! I am seriously excited about it, so is the boy! Honestly, if I could pick a calling for myself that would be the one, or the calling that you just sit in the back row and don't do anything or have to talk to anyone.....that's right up there on my list  too! Anyway, so now it's April Fool's day, one of my favorite days of the year! Buddy has been helping mastermind pranks with me for years to play on Shane, this year he went out on his own and did this....

He said a kid at school punched him and gave him a black eye. Hmmm, all I did was put holes in his water bottle so it sprinkled all over when he drank it, made him some brown E's, and froze his milk and cereal. Next year I'm going to have to remember to not work the night before so I can be a little more revved up so I can honor this day a little better! Next year Buddy, next year! So all in all a super fantastic, festively   festve, day! Oh, and I'm pregnant with twins!

Familiar territory....

Remember last year when I begged Buddy to take a picture with the Easter Bunny and this is what I got...

Of course, I was simply just trying to recreate this little chunk of awesomeness....

Cause nothing says Easter quite like a toddler with puffy red eyes from crying after being forced to sit on a man's lap. A man dressed in a Bunny suit just to make it even weirder and creepier. Anyway, today we went for the third reenactment.....

I think he nailed it! In other news, Buddy also decided to recreate his "crazy as a coconut" t-shirt....

I think he nailed it again, and all the other  kids were getting bunnies and rainbows painted on their faces!  Silly kids! In other more awesome news, Buddy ran into his BFF while visiting with the bunny, which resulted in this.....

Yep, that's the whole lot of them hanging out in a helicopter, cause that's what everyone else does on a Saturday, right?  Tomorrow is Buddy's Easter party, he just finished filling 108 plastic eggs.....of course I'm not going to mention what he stuffed them with, but hey, he's excited, and I'm sure if you're under the age of 8 you'd be excited too! Now he's even dusting the house to get it ready. Hmmm, perhaps we should have more "parties"! So all in all a super fantastic, going through the rigmarole  day!

Wrong....

I picked up a little something special at Costco today.....

Unfortunately they weren't having a sale, because I would have loved a two for one deal. Heck I could even go with a case of them I think! In other news, I'm still sick but my boy let me sleep in, that is after asking if he could watch TV (seriously, why is it kids only follow the rules when you're tired?).  In other news,  Buddy is hosting his first party on Sunday. Of course, like any good party planner, he has to make sure his props are in good working order....

Yep, we'd hate it if those bubbles just didn't quite blow on Sunday. Thank goodness we'll be checking that off of our list! Now I'm just wondering how many times Buddy is going to hide and then find the eggs before Sunday? All I have to say is thank goodness I'm smarter this year . The only eggs going out are plastic, because you only need to experience a rotten egg in the toy box once in your lifetime! But then again, maybe that's just me! So all in all a super fantastic, doing it right, day!

Winner winner chicken dinner....

Buddy won his pack's derby car race tonight....

People keep assuming that Shane helped him make it go fast. Truth is, the boy drew the design for shaping the car and then shaped it with the sander(I'm going to assume that is actually the name of the tool)....

Errrrm, it's totally normal to let your 8 year old loose with the power tools, right? Anyway, while  I was recovering from a night shift (aka sleeping) one day last week, he sat in front of the TV  sanding the crud out of his car....let's just keep my awesome mothering skills our little secret! Then he painted it. Shane helped him put a piece of tape down for his racing stripe, but the rest was all him....

Since I've already admitted to my awesomeness, I'll just go ahead and admit I tried to take the paint away and do it myself. I was adamantly told this was his project and he could do what he wanted! Smart boy! Anyway, when Shane got home this evening he added the wheels and the weight which actually may be the whole difference between winning and losing, so maybe Shane did what everyone is accusing him of. Oh well, Buddy is on cloud nine....

He's already planned to wear his cub scout uniform to school and wants to wear his medal he won at the Little Gym when he was 3 (I can already hear the string of exaggerated stories coming)! Maybe I'll just pin this picture to his back to knock him down a few pegs....

If that doesn't work, I can always use this...

Yep, that should do the trick. So all in all a super fantastic, where is our chicken dinner, day!

Slick.....

Buddy has almost finished his car for the pinewood derby.....

It's pretty slick if I do say so myself! The fact that he sanded that thing for hours on end just added to the slickness. Seriously, it's really smooth....or should I say slick! So all in all a super fantastic, slick like that, day!

Yardwork...

The boy and I apparently have different ideas come to mind when talking about yard work. I think I like his ideas better....

(Those boxes are houses, garages and of course an all important toy store, because apparently you can't have a town without a toy store.....of course someone ought to tell that to our sadly lacking town!)

I think it adds a little something to the yard, don't you agree? So all in all a super fantastic, still sick, but not out for the count, day!

Derailing....

Buddy has a head cold as a result of what I assume as culprits....a ridiculous amount of time spent in cold water (relatively) this past week, and poor care from his mother. To recuperate we sat in front of the TV for most of the day. Unfortunately, all of that nothingness has not worn the kid out, so now he is sitting here doing this...

 Seriously, someone needs to go to bed! I'm seriously rethinking my medication administration tonight since I held back the stuffy nose medication because I didn't want to zonk him out! Oh well. So all and all a super fantastic, go to bed Buddy, day!