I Need a New Camera....

After much searching I bought this adorable hair piece for Rosie Posies blessing day.  I ordered it from Heavenly Avonlee Couture and it was PERFECT!  Like any mom who uses her blog as her journal and photo album I wanted to capture the girly, adorable details.  What wasn't adorable, how long it took me to get a decent picture of it.  I hate my camera.  You will get everything focused and then as you push the button it will auto focus into blurry.  Ahhh.  The flash washes everything out.  Indoor everything gets dark and grainy.  It is driving me crazy!!!!!  I want a DSLR but they are so costly.  Dr. J will ask me, "So what do you want for your (birthday, mother's day, our anniversary, Christmas).  Really the only thing I want I can't just go out and get myself is a nice camera....but then that's usually above the budget he wants to spend.  Oh, boy, I guess I'll just have to stick with the current system.  Eight horribly blurry pictures for one sort of ok one.  So frustrating :(

Three Easter Dresses and the Dude

The traditional Easter picture.  Why is it so hard to get a picture of all of my kids?   I'm not asking for professional shots here, just one where all four are looking.  We went with a polk a dot theme, and flowers in the hair.  The girls love their dresses.  Peach had to wear a shirt under hers.  Dad doesn't mind shoulders showing but nipples hanging out, where that is where he draws the line.  G bear was ok because unlike the sundress she wore to church two months ago the neck was too narrow for her to pull it down to her waist.  That was the moment dad made the no nipples in church rule :)

Darn those blue eyes...even in the shade it's to bright to look.

Peach, "Mom look at my ears."

Peach, "Why aren't you looking?"

BEST ONE IN THE BUNCH!!!!!  Captain E and baby Rosie (another nickname we have for cheetah).  Peach and Gigi are smiling...even if they aren't looking right at me.

Peach, "I'm done with this."

Mom I will be getting down soon.  

Our Easter Meal

Easter dinner is probably my favorite.  I can't help it.  I love ham.  Most years I get a hassle from my husband about the ham.  He's pretty much anti pork all year round, complaints every time I cook bacon, but Easter time gets him really going.  He says he feels weird about eating ham on Easter.  Even though we aren't Jewish, I think the season just makes him feel a little more biblical.  He'd rather eat lamb.  I think lamb has the worst after taste and is way too expensive.  Does anyone else have this ham argument in the marriage around Easter time and if so which spouse is the one pushing for lamb?  This year Dr. J was working Easter...oddly enough this single fact killed his normal anti ham tangent, and so ham it was with zero complaints.  There was also homemade rolls...YUM!

And a delicious lemon cake.  Pretty much made my spring day, something about that sugary yellow just made me so happy.  We ended up with a lot of left overs but came up with some meals to take care of that.

Shepard's pie for leftover mash potatoes...

 Chef's salad was the perfect way to use up some ham and Easter Eggs.  I also of course made a ham bone and bean soup, because when you have a ham bone, soup is a must!

So maybe baseball isn't as boring as I originally thought...

...at least not waiting for rained out games.  Who knew all these fun things were going on.  Oddly enough a lot of these songs gave me flashbacks to church dances...



There are tons of these on youtube.  So funny!

Tidbits

Pretty sure if I was 18 years old I'd want to marry one of these guys... :)  I can't help but wonder how this went down.  "So guys who wants to become an internet sensation?"  And just how bored do you have to be to listen to that song a million times?  Also the sleeping guy in the back cracks me up.  Did he not want to participate or did the rest of the guys come up with the idea and execute the whole thing during his nap?

Also who doesn't love the Manning brother.  I mean seriously they are both great athletes.  I always wondered what life was like at home...maybe this gives us a little clue.  http://www.hulu.com/watch/358346/saturday-night-live-little-brothers (there is some swearing in this)


And then the disapointment of my week...

http://video.pbs.org/video/2229864759

Last season I mentioned how much I loved the new Sherlock Holmes, so it was with much anticipation that I sat down to watch the beginning of season two last night.  All I can say is BLAH!!!!!  One of the reasons I read English/Scottish mystery is because they still appreciate the finer art of giving the reader enough information to solve the mystery.  Mystery is my favorite genre and while I will read almost any mystery book I find that American authors often prefer to flirt with the genre of thriller.  Suspense, terror, and sexuality used to drive the readers excitement. Personally I blame Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell, and CSI for this.  I love mystery the way Arthur Conan Doyle originally served it up, where solving the crime gave the biggest thrill.  This newest episode was so manic, the mysteries were just an unfinished backdrop.  Dr. J and I watch a lot of British TV.  WE noticed a similar manic feel to the newest seasons of Doctor Who.  It can be fun to get your heart racing but when what you really crave is an intellectual puzzle it is a major disappointment.  Still looking forward to seeing Dr. Watson as Bilbo though...

Chocolate Bunny

Nothing says I love you like giant molded chocolate.

Want to know how much we love chocolate bunnies?  Check it out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0T57GOwPo
 Since our very first Easter as a family, we've done Easter baskets on Saturday.  It helps the holiday last longer and it is an attempt to keep the inevitable sugar rush out of church.  This year was no different, although this year daddy had Saturday off and wasn't going to have Sunday so it was a little extra fun.

Cheetah hates her bumbo.  It was just a few days after this picture that she managed to stand up in it and fall over.  Thankfully she was on the floor.  

Eggstravagansa

 Technically we didn't dye any Easter eggs until a week after Easter.  It took me that long to get two dozen eggs together and to find the dye I didn't use last year.  But this is the internet, and if we can pretend Britney Spears doesn't have cellulite on her thighs then we can certainly give this mother of four a break and pretend this Easter egg dye day happened before Easter.  The kids were super excited to dye eggs this year.  I think it was two fold.  One, who doesn't love a messy art project?  Two, all three of my older kids loved hard boiled eggs.  I don't really get it.  I think they are ok, but find the yokes a little overwhelming.  Not so for these three, they relish the opportunity to eat them.  I think the fact that they were asking for weeks if they could do it also heightened the enjoyment, so much so that when I only made up three of the dye tablets instead of the nine that came in the pack there was zero complaint.