Photo Challenge Day 24- This Makes Me Happy

This is a duplicate challenge as Day 10, but I will go ahead and use it as an excuse to show you some pics I was going to do a post on anyways. So this time the thing that makes me happy is creating family traditions, the most recent was decorating Easter Eggs!

In the future, I will be smarter than I was this year (I hope) and be sure to read the box of the egg decorating kit BEFORE I give it to Hannah as an option to purchase. She LOVES dinosaurs! We watch Land Before Time, Dino Dan, and Dinosaur Train and she knows lots of dinosaurs by their really long names and how they look. So, when I saw a dinosaur egg kit, I knew she would love it too. However, there was "some assembly required" and at three, that means for mom to do. So after about 30-45 minutes (with some distractions), I had 8 of these little guys ready to go!

from this...

to this!

Then after dinner, we got all our stuff ready and put on clothes that were safe to get stained and got started! (Kids were not cooperating for pics)

This set up lasted 10 seconds or less because Michael decided he could handle Hannah alot easier than Rachel. Also notice after this, there are no pictures of Rachel for the "during" process because she was in my arms! 

 

 Hannah LOVED the dinosaurs, so it was worth it in the end to get this smile!

 This is Michael's egg, it was going to just be orange so he soaked it for a long time, then it still wasn't orange enough for him so he decided to try mixing colors to see what he would get. It turned brown and starting chipping and was really ugly. Well, he kept dunking it long after I thought it was a lost cause and here is the end result, its the coolest looking egg we made!

 One pic of me with the girls for proof that I did help. As you can tell, the girls were just as cooperative as they were for pictures with their dad.

 Another thing that looked alot more fun than it was, were these face stickers. They don't lay flat on your curved egg and so they don't stick well. You would think that since they are made for eggs, they would work on eggs.

 We finally let Rachel play with an egg and she was so excited and about 15 seconds later, she smashed it into the table and it cracked. She looked at it and looked at me and said, "Oopsie!"

 We had to convince her that it was ok that she broke it!

This picture has some of the egg white from Rachel's egg in the back, but it is a pic of Hannah's favorite egg. She colored it with the clear crayon and dyed it her favorite color, purple!

There are lots of things that we do with the girls that will be easier as they get older (like dyeing eggs) and lots of things they may get older and think are lame, but we will still do them every year we can because traditions are important!