PEEPS 2011

Last year I used peeps for easter treats too. This year our Commissary and PX don't have any regular Peeps...all they have are these expensive chocolate Peeps but I went ahead and bought the whole row. This past week I went to Dongdaemun with a quilting friend and I bought this Peep yellow felt to cut my bunnies from. The pattern is from made, you can just copy the pattern right off your computer screen!

This week has been crazy fun. I have had school field trips to attend, Steve had my actual birthday off so we went out to eat and shopping, I went to Dongdaemun, we went to the Seoul Zoo, the Seoul horse track, and last night we went out for my favorite Kalbi...YUMMY!!!

Easter weekend

Teresa, Steve's mom, came and picked up Ben and Madi and off they went for a weekend of fun. I can only imagine how much giggling and fun went on. Ben and Madi LOVE hanging out with their cousins...it's their favorite thing to do.
Steve and I sure enjoyed a weekend together. Saturday night we went to the Italian Oven for dinner and then did a little shopping before rushing home to watch the Final Four.
Thank you Teresa!!!



On Sunday Steve and I met up with everyone to celebrate Easter with lots of food and everyone playing outside. Even Great Grandma Marcella got out with her new white shoes on and played baseball. Alicia had gotten a badminton set and that was a hit! What a perfect Easter weekend.

Looks like Easter

Here are two pictures of my Easter decorations.

Okay I think I may now hold the world record for the most money spent on Peeps. Madi has enjoyed helping me make over 40 of those adorable Easter treat bags. 14 are for her classmates and the rest are for our favorite Peeps at the kids school...I am very grateful to so many of the teachers and office staff.

P*E*E*P*S

This cute Easter treat was an idea I found over at eighteen25. I just finished making a dozen of them to hand out but need to get some more peeps to make some more.

Yesterday was opening day for Madi's softball league. She lucked out and got what she wanted...she was placed on the purple team and was also given the #11 that she wanted. Madi had and RBI and a hit and score. Her team won 14 to 1!

I can't believe Madi even played her game. On Firday night she threw-up 6 times. As if that's not hard enough she has diabetes. So after puking she had to eat sugar pills and crackers to keep her blood sugar high enough. She is such a trooper! She ended up getting some keytones in her urine so we were trying to cope with that too. Last night she ended up having quite a few keytones and we thought we might end up in the hospital but her Pediatric Endocrinologist talked us through stuff on the phone to avoid that unless it became worse. Steve went to the gas station last night at 9pm and picked up like 5 candy bars and skittles for Madi to try to eat. She needed to eat enough carbs to get an insulin shot...that is what the Dr. told us would help. So all 4 of us were up late sharing with Madi and taste testing all the different kinds of skittles and sugar babies...what a night. Today no keytones and she has eaten some and is almost back to being her normal self.

Easter Eggs

I just finished making these simple Easter cards tonight after dinner...using all scraps of fabric I almost threw away. I am learning to save ALL my scraps for future use.

Man, last week at this time I was sitting by pool relaxing...I LOVED the sound of those waterfalls!

Anyone watching March Madness...what a crazy first day yesterday!!! Poor Ben had Georgetown going to the Final Four...brackets everywhere are messed up!

Easter fun

On Friday we got together with my friend michelle and all the kids colored Easter Eggs. The kids had a ball and were so fun to watch.

Even the big girls got in egg dyeing spirit.

I took the kids to see the movie Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D. It was a cute movie but cutest part were Ben and Madi in those huge black BCG glasses! And my BIG accomplishment this weekend was doing a 10 mile run. My head is HUGE right now...but my knee hurts. Only 12 more days before my big run in Nashville.

Homemade Easter and the girls

These eggs were fun to make. I stitched them and then sewed them to resemble eggs and placed them in my Polish Pottery.

This one is for me!

And these went to the Plum Tree.

Last Friday I got my hair cut and Madi loved it. So since this week is Spring Break I made her an apt. with Melody too and now we look almost the same.

Skipping ahead

As much holiday decorating as I do, for some reason I pretty much skip right over St. Patrick's Day, I don't know why. The few things I have I just set out that day....so yesterday I was in the mood to decorate for Easter. We have had some serious spring weather the last 5 days...in the 80's and my kids have been wearing shorts to school. Last week we had our first 'snow day' ever and then yesterday I had to turn on the air conditioner?

This afternoon after the kids finished their homework, Madi asked to watch TV and Ben asked me to sit out back with him. So I opened the french doors to let the fresh air in the house and then I sat on the porch and stitched while talking with Ben who was swinging on the hammock. Boys are so sweet!