The Bad Egg(s)

Anyone else's Easter egg collection look a little out of control?

This is my mom's stash.  When we were little, she would do this giant egg hunt for my family, my cousins, all of our friends, and neighbors.  It was a big deal!

Now she does an egg hunt for all 20 of her grandkids, plus us kids still.  I know, we are probably a little too old for it, but we still love it!

Anyway, she buys new eggs pretty much every year.  And she still has eggs from about 20 years ago.

They are looking a little sad.

So I went through her stash, took out all the "bad eggs", and got my craft on.

But this is about as far as I got before other duties called.

My sister brought her little boy over for an impromptu Easter photo shoot.

As I was setting up, Kota Bear and her sisters were playing in the living room.

Without warning, Bear broke out in a curdling scream.

And to make a long story short, we ended up at the InstaCare.

Where we waited...

(Sorry about the fuzzy picture.  I took it on my phone.)

And then we got the bad news.

She broke her elbow!..

By running into the couch!!!

Weird, huh?

Anyway, so we went home and tried again to take my nephew's pictures.  By then it was late and the lighting sucked, so the pictures were lousy.  I was frustrated, and had enough, so there was no more egg-spiraments for me on Saturday.

Sunday was taken up with family stuff.

So I finally got to finish my egg-cilent creation late last night.

What do you think?

I think it needs a little something more, but I can't figure out what.

It's not egg-sactly there yet.

Any suggestions?

I've got a whole carton of "bad eggs" lying around, so you are sure to see some more egg-citing crafts from this chick.

**And I promise to cut back on the lame egg jokes...maybe!  Ha!**

Tea for 2: The Complete Party

Okay, okay, I know!  Enough already!  No more tea party. But I want to enter this into Bird's Party Link Up, so I need to a little overview of the whole party.
So here goes:  (Click on the Labels to see more)

Your Invited

Dress for Tea

Skirt Tutorial Here

Decorations

Food

 "Tea Cup"  Cupcakes

 Build your own Tea sandwiches

 Candy Buffet

Favors

Dollar Spot hats from Target

Tea for 2 Memories of You

(Memory Slide Show)

We made a slide show of all of our favorite memories of Cassy, and played it on the T.V. during the party.

It was such a fun party and a great way to celebrate my baby turning 2!

Go Vote for the Princess Kissing Balls!

Ahh!  I am going a little bit overboard with excitement!

My pink Princess kissing balls made it to the top ten for the month of March at Today's Top 20!
So I need y'all to get over there and vote for me!
Voting is on the top left.
All of the projects are A-MA-ZING!  I feel so honored to be among them!





While you're over there, check her blog out!
She features projects from all over Blogland, for everybody, no matter what your whim is.  Love it!
Thanks for the fun competition, Amanda!

Tea for 2: Family Fun

Okay, last post on Cassy's party.  But I had to share a great idea my hubby had.

He had me compile all of Cassy's pictures and make them into a slide show.

Then he hooked the laptop up to the T.V. screen so that everyone could watch while they mingled.

I didn't add any music because I knew it would already be noisy with 31 people, so we didn't need more commotion.

Anyway, after I edited and deleted the not so good pictures, I was able to cut it back to 575!

I won't share them all with you, but I want to share a few of my favorites.

 This little girl really pushed me to the limit.

After 3 other babies, I faced one of my biggest fears and got an epidural.

Just after they finished the epidural, the doctor discovered she had down a flip since my appointment the day before and was now breech.  They had already broken my water, so an inversion didn't work (thought I was grateful  I had listened to the Spirit and gotten that epidural.)

They told me I was going to have to face my second and greatest fear.  A c-section.

I was scared out of my mind, but the doctors and my hubby were great.

They got me through it just fine, and it was so worth it when I held Miss Cassidy for the first time.

I know this one is fuzzy, but I couldn't resist sharing her first Easter.

I love this tender little moment.

Charly is such the little mommy!

I took all the girls' pictures in this hat

and made a scrapbook page for Daddy that said

Happy Father's Day

from you little "Deeres"

Best Buddies

 First Birthday

One of Cassy's favorite people, Grandpa Great

Mother's Day 2010

We started a new tradition of going to Temple Square to see all of the amazing flowers.  What a great photo op!

Thrill Seeker!

Fun at the park

Cassy's other favorite person, Grandpa P.

First Steps

Bein' Silly

Halloween 2010

Cassy loved sledding so much that she refused to get out of the sled and ended up falling asleep in it!

Oh how I love this little girl!

I am so blessed to have her in my life

And look forward to many more years!

Shutter Love: Hands

I knew exactly which picture I wanted to use when I saw the theme for this week's Shutter Love.

This is Charly when she was one.

Oh how I miss those chubby little hands!

I love the old baseball with her 4th of July shirt.

I am naming this photo "All American"

Tea for 2: Favors

What Tea Party is complete without some proper hats?

I looked everywhere, trying to find some cute hats.

Nothing!

Then we were at Target one day, and there, in the Dollar Spot, There they were!!!

I was so excited, I did a silly little dance right there!

Thank you Target Dollar Spot!  You are my absolute favorite!

The plan, initially, was to have the girls decorate their hats.

But I realized most of them were still too young to do it on their own, or even care.

So my older girls and I will be decorating their's later this week.

As for the younger ones, they were just happy to play with their new pretties!

And pose for the camera.

This is my favorite picture from the whole party.

My two favorite models (don't tell my other girls or their cousins).

These two are always so sweet together.