Lenten Promises

This year we all gave up different things.  Chris gave up fast food/eating out, I gave up Starbucks, and the girls are by association giving those things up too.  Gianna is going to try to be more cheerful and helpful about picking up her toys or other chores when asked.  I found this cool "lenten map" from catholic icing along with the stations of the cross from one of the posts from that blog. From those 2 things I made a little lenten folder for each of them. We are planning to go to Stations of the Cross as much as possible and they can bring their folders with them to point to each station.

Of course I turned this all educational and had her match numbers to the station.  She loves to glue.

Coloring her lenten map.  Love the tongue sticking out!

Proud of her map!

Easter Part 1

I took too many pictures. They are so cute though, that I have to include all of them, so it will be a 2 post ordeal.

Saturday night we dyed Easter eggs. Really not the best activity for a 2 year old, but we survived with only one broken egg.

Easter Morning

Since Gianna gave up ice cream for lent, the Easter Bunny brought them some. Since he didn't want it to melt, he left a note to the girls telling them to follow the tracks to a special treat.

The Easter Bunny knows just where to hide the baskets. Gianna's was in our radio cabinet (passed down to me from my parents house) which the Easter Bunny used to hide my Easter baskets when I was a little girl. And Elia's basket was in the easel, which I thought was very fitting.

He left presents for everyone, including the adults. I got some wine and the uncles got beer. The Easter Bunny also left a communal bowl for everyone.

Then we made a bunny cake (not pictured) and some bird nests. This was so easy and fun! It was just your basic rice krispie treat recipe but using chow mein noodles and forming them into nests in cupcake holders. Then the girls filled them with "eggs."

More on our Easter egg hunt and some cute family pictures in my next post. Happy Easter!

Lenten Promises

This is the first year that Chris and I have talked to the girls about Lent. We talked to G about how Jesus died for us so that we could live and that we need to give something up and try to do something better so that we can show Jesus we love him. We decided to give up ice cream and she is going to try her best not to whine in the morning when its time to get dressed. (trying to get a 3 year old dressed in the morning=my least favorite job of parenting ever!)

So this morning she broke out the "I don't want to wear this" and generally moping about it, I asked her to remember what she is doing for Lent to show Jesus she loves him. She pretty much just put on her clothes after that! Hope we can keep this up.

And I am going to try to give up (chew-able) carbs for Lent. Wish me luck on that!