Mother's Garden

Some fun pictures of a recent morning trip to Mother's Garden.

Tulip Fever

Last week we ventured out to catch some rays and enjoy the riot of color over at Sherwood Gardens. We had a nice little picnic and toured the many flower beds- over 80,000 tulip bulbs planted!

More Egg-travaganza

Easter celebrating has turned into a full time job for this kid! Between neighborhood celebrations, fun at home, and a hunt at Mother's Garden, we are fully Easterized.

Here is Jasper on the bridge at Mother's Garden with our favorite Easter Bunny.

Jasper and Daddy on the way to the hunt at Mother's Garden.

Hunting w/ his buddy Landon, this hunt was much more... peaceful than last weeks.

Super proud of his finds!

Daddy and the bunny.

Friends sharing their loot!

The bunny under one of the lovely flowering trees in Mother's Garden. If I haven't gone on and on to you yet about MG, it's a 5 acre garden bordering our neighborhood that was built as strolling garden in the 20's. It was derelict up until last year when a group of neighbors formed "The Friends of Mother's Garden" and we started rehabbing the garden and holding events.

Batman loves Easter too!
Helping hang eggs in our little maple out front.

The boys Easter basket- hardhat, umbrella and books- spoiled???

Hunting eggs with Grandpa.

Dyeing Ester Eggs

Jasper is so excited for Easter, and I have to admit, I love it too. I really enjoy dyeing Easter eggs and wanted to try a couple new techniques that I spied on Pinterest. Errrr, let's just say we barely made it through the traditional way intact. Between the boiling water, fumbling 2 year old fingers, and DYE, I was hesitant to just let him experiment like I usually do. But all in all we had a good time, only smashed one egg and each have stained finger tips.

Checking on the green

Putting all our eggs in one basket

This is the egg that didn't make it.
We did try a little experimenting with tissue paper and saran wrap.

These turned out to be my favorites!

Easter Egg-stravaganza!

I love how kid friendly our neighborhood is! Between the annual Egg Hunt, Spooky Playground, Block Party, Santa Visits and The Fall Fest, it seems like there is always something for the kiddies to do. And somehow I am involved with the planning and execution of all of them! The Egg hunt is a pretty big undertaking, two age separated hunts, Easter Bunny visit, tattoo stations, cupcake decorating, Easter grass planting, and treasure hunting. Phew! We must have stuffed at least 800 eggs last night. Last year Jasper was sooooo into the Easter Bunny, wanted to pet her and sit on her lap, this year- not so much. The cupcakes and egg hunting were calling.

Jasper being wary of the bunny, but he really wanted an "Easter carrot."

Carrot or cupcake?

Amazingly, the carrot wins, 4 carrots consumed vs. 1 cupcake top.

The 4 and unders patiently waiting.

He has no idea of the chaos that will ensue.

Now, I don't really have photos of the actual hunt, there was a bit of a trampling. By the time Jasper recovered and wanted to try to get eggs, they were mostly gone. :( But we found a golden egg hidden in the play house and that remedied the situation.

And another carrot...

And hanging out with good buddies...

And by the end of the day all was good again.

Painting the Darkness

We got some fun glitter paint this week and wanted to try it out. Jasper wanted to try the black so we decided to paint "darkness."

We drew with some yellow crayon to try out some paint resists. Jasper asked me to draw the stars and moon for the sparkly night sky.