Easter!

I decided to try dyeing eggs using vegetables. they didn't get very dark in colour, but i found out later i was supposed to let them soak in the liquid for 8 hours. oh well, it was still fun!
We had a fun Easter; Josh came over and we did an egg hunt and a little basket scavenger hunt inside, because it was SNOWING. ugh. we had some really sunny nice warm weeks, and now we're getting this weird cold front that doesn't seem to be going away. I can't WAIT till the warm weather is here!

She's such a 4 year old!

And here are some videos of her scavenger hunt leading to the basket! We had a lot of fun!




Aloka loved opening up her basket. There was a cool prism, lots of neat little stones and treasures, lots of stickers, bubbles, and of course treats, like jelly beans, a few chocolate eggs, lots of carob covered almonds ; ) and Aloka's favourite, dried Blueberries.
Here are also some pictures of the eggs we dyed, and some really cool ones Josh did with Aloka... Josh should win some awards!!

Above, the big thing is a bird, and there's a little person next to it

This one above is a mermaid...

A princess with red lipstick, of course....

Our vegetable dyed ones are in the back right there... and the dark brown ones on the left are the onion skin dyed ones!! I was joking that we couldn't just bought brown eggs and save some onions!

The most exciting hour of my life

Well, I can think of others actually.... but this was definitely up there.

I decided to get some lotto scratch tickets, because i'm so broke right now. It's not something I do very often; the last time was around Xmas because I put them in everyone's stocking.

But I just had a really good feeling about it. So I got to my car and scratched of my tickets. I won 7$ which pretty much paid for the tickets, and then I got to one called "King of Cards" which had 6 different little "card" games on it. As I was scratching, I realized I had won one of them. I hadn't scratched off the Prize for it yet. So I started scratching off the prize, first I saw a 5, then a 50, then 500 and then 5000!! Holy crap... I was reeling!!! I was in total disbelief that I might have actually won $5000, after sitting in my car processing this for a half hour, I called Josh from my cell. I told him, and he was so excited for me!! I kept looking at the ticket to make sure I wasn't misreading it. Then I went in to tell Richard who had been working at the store. He too, was thrilled for me!
By now an hour had passed, my face had a perma-grin on it and was thinking of everyone I was going to call. I got back to my car, sat down and looked at my ticket again, when I realized I had missed something. My heart sank, and again I found myself looking at it over and over but this time in disbelief that it wasn't actually a winning ticket after all. It was a clever and very hard to catch trick of the eye, but I had totally missed it. I wasn't a winner. Goodbye $5000 that was Oh SO Needed!!
But it was a fun hour...

A sweet post

I'm posting a sweet post to check out on Melissa's blog... i thought you fans of Aloka would enjoy it! Nile and Aloka can just be so cute together. Especially as they've gotten older, and the age difference narrows....

One of my favorite pictures of Aloka