Easter Eggs and Aubree's Antics

We have fun Easter traditions, one of which is to do the egg hunt. We have a whole plan to make egg hunting fair. We have plastic Easter eggs for each kid in their designated color. We thought we were so smart for thinking this up. Then the older kids don't find all the easy eggs that the younger kids were meant to find. Then nobody is yelling and crying because they didn't get as many. Then no one freaks out because someone started looking 10 seconds before they did. (Oh no, that has NEVER happened in our house!) Anyway, Aubree gets pink eggs, Tyler gets green, Marcus gets blue and Caleb gets yellow. What a great plan! Each kid has 23 eggs hidden this year. Wow, aren't we so smart for thinking this up? Well, my boys are all color blind to some extent. Mostly the browns, greens, and yellows look the same, and the purple and blues look the same. Apparently on Easter ALL the colors look the same. Matt and I sat in the family room watching them hunt. Every two seconds someone would have to ask us what color the egg they found was. We got laughing so hard because our plan was ridiculous!! They couldn't even tell if the pink eggs were pink! At one point Caleb found the same egg three times and came up and asked us if it was yellow. (It wasn't.) It was a good plan, though, wasn't it??

My sweet Aubree (10)... she is such a girl and is so fun! I love her shrewd business sense and her sweet, sweet personality. She makes family home evenings spiritual, she gives out the most hugs, she screams louder than anyone when she sees a spider (that one is not so cute). Anyway, she is always starting businesses or making things to sell, or selling things on the corner. She was out on the corner selling homemade bath salts and bath oil and Easter cards with her friend last week. Thank goodness for sweet neighbors like Kimberly, Dana, and Kade. They were the three patrons. The cutest thing is that Kade (a 15 yr old boy in our neighborhood) bought all three things. I don't know what he is planning to do with the green bath oil or bath salts, but I am grateful that he made my daughter's day! Anyway, Aubree had little 3 X 5 cards stuck to the light post saying things like, "Come buy it as a present for your wife." Or, "Don't keep driving -- sale ahead." She cracks me up. The best are the Hallmark card imitations she invents. Her sayings can make even the most intelligent person scratch their head. One card she gave me said, "Mom, you're the best. Love is only one generation away." Deep thoughts, that's for sure! My favorite was the year she gave me a card for my birthday. I opened it and two dollar bills fell out. Inside it read, "Make all your dreams come true."