Easter

Happy belated Easter, everyone! (I have other things to catch up on but will wait on those and just pop in to share about our Easter yesterday.) We don't usually do a whole big celebration here but...figuring that this may be one of the last Easters with all three boys here...we went ahead and still had Easter "baskets." :)

I don't know that I've ever really used baskets. There have been years with dump trucks or bathroom caddies or boxes made out of candy or organizers for game pieces...you get the picture. This year's baskets were insulated lunch bags (complete with reusable silverware sets for each boy so they don't take my silverware, lol). I got each boy some of his favorite candies and then there were some random candies also inside the bags...and bath/shower bombs...and a funny little ice cream scoop. 

And then we had an egg hunt...indoors only, each boy had a certain color and had 12 eggs to find, if you found all 12 eggs you got some cash, and if you were the first one to find all 12 there was bonus cash. I stepped up my hiding this year, too. 

Yes, I may have recruited assistance to hide things up high since boys assumed I'd only hide things where I could reach, lol. Also, boys may have taken to re-hiding eggs when they found a brother's egg...which made it difficult to track. ;) It took about an hour for them all to find their eggs. :) (And, in case you're wondering, Micah found all of his first by making a deal to split the bonus with Noah if Noah would tell him where he'd re-hidden Micah's last egg, lol.)

And then we had some downtime to tackle weekend chores and eat and such. 

And what came next requires a short backstory...So, Nathan was in San Francisco last week for a few days on a work retreat. While he was there, he mentioned to me that there'd been talk of karaoke after work. I told the boys...who decided it was a good idea to try karaoke, that it might be wise to know what "their" go-to karaoke song would be. We then spent Thursday night doing our own version of karaoke using YouTube videos and just all singing together. It was, um, loud. We didn't have any microphones or anything and Micah felt that this could be made up for by shouting, lol. 

Nathan got home late Friday night and was able to listen to the random recordings I'd made. And we decided it would be fun to have an actual karaoke machine. :) Thanks to Amazon's amazing overnight delivery, we had a new machine by Easter morning.

Sooo. Easter afternoon, we broke out the karaoke...and, in varying combinations, continued for hours (breaking for dinner and chores and such). Some were good. Some were less so, lol. And, along the way we had so much fun...even got Micah to sing "Let it Go" from Frozen at one point (he hates the song, lol)...  

And then we played some games together before heading to bed. :) Hope you all had a lovely Easter also!