homemade peeps

I LOVE peeps and decided we'd try making our own this year. 

pouring the honey surup into the gelatin 

oiling the mold so the marshmallows don't stick 

filling the molds with marshmallow 

piping the "chicks" 

 

 

finished "peeps" dipped in sugar (dyed with beet juice from the eggs) 

dying Easter eggs

We dyed eggs again this year using natural food dyes.  It takes a bit more time to dye them but it's fun to see what colors things will make and I feel much better about feeding the dyed eggs to my family. 

Getting the dyes all set up
 

from left to right: beet juice, carrots, turmeric, spinach-turmeric-red cabbage, green tea, red cabbage, red cabbage-beet juice, coffee

Josh with beet juice on his hand after putting his egg, and his entire hand, in the dye 

 

drawing on their eggs with white crayon 

 

Finished eggs, back left to front right: beet, carrot x2, red cabbage x2, cabbage/turmeric/spinach x2, green tea, turmeric, beet/cabbage x2


 

painting easter eggs

The kids painted some paper mache eggs today to use for our easter morning egg hunt
 

 

 

 

"gotta have blue hair!"
 

 

 

misc march pics

snuggling in the chair again

 

 

Nothing sweeter than a sleeping kid!
 

 

Robyn on her nest in the tree off our balcony
 

 

cutness

snuggling in the chair
 

 

so excited Anna actually has some curls in the back of her hair!  Not a great pic, but trust me, they're there!!! :)
 

lounging around 

Holding hands on our eveing walk
 

 

playing in the rain

It rained all day and the kids were itching to get outside so I let them play on the deck in the rain and they had a blast.  Most of the deck is covered but there's still a lot of water dripping down from the deck above us. 


This was towards the end, look at how soaked they are!

 

Josh was standing underneath the drips trying to get wet

 

 

 

Anna was showing me her wet hands
 

I love this little guy...
 

 

Look at that face!!
 

 

getting caught up.

I've been bad about posting pics lately, the kids don't let me get a lot of computer time these days. Here are some random shots from Feb


The kids snuggled up by me on the couch to read before bed (book look familiar Ange?)


Trying out the new rocking chair

They were really cute rocking together but it was almost impossible to get a good pic of them.

Our box for Duplos is a big firetruck with wheels on it and Josh had Anna pushing him around the house in it. He does push her on occasion too, but I'm impressed at how well she can push him around.

smoothie time :)

hanging out in the bathroom watching a video on my phone, while we were waiting for the tornado to pass