Easter

Post by Kevin: Yesterday was Easter.  I got home from a track meet in Arizona early Sunday morning.  We ran Saturday night at 11pm and then had to wake up at 4:30am to catch our flight home.  So I was kind of tired all day.  But we still had a great time.  Bree was really excited to exchange easter baskets.  So that was the first thing we did when I got home.  She worked really hard to find me all the things that I've been needing: moisturizing cream with spf, a sunday morning cd, a baseball hat, a cool t-shirt with a catfish on it, a scrabble card game that we haven't played yet, a bunch of mechanical pencils (I tend to lose them), and a rented dvd from blockbuster (that was my favorite, by the way. It's due back on saturday.)  And she gave me a bunch of candy. 

But I think I deserve the prize for the most thoughtful gift.  I had been planning on giving Bree this for weeks, and I was really excited for her to see it.  I gave her...a popcorn maker!  She loves popcorn but always burns the microwave kind so I got her this one, it's burn-proof.  And we can add as much butter and salt as we want.  I think I was more excited for it than she was, however.  In addition to the popcorn popper, I gave Bree some scented candles, nail polish (that was dark red...which apparently is a fall color and can't be worn this time of year--who knew?), some bread mix, and candy.  

So after we had our easter basket exchange, we made some deviled eggs and went over to my cousin (once removed) Tami's house for an Easter Egg hunt.  This was no ordinary easter egg hunt.  You know, the kind you had when you were a kid...Mom and dad hide 25 eggs in the backyard that are each filled with four jelly beans, and then you and your two siblings go out and search for ten minutes for the "hidden" eggs.  No, this was nothing like that.  We're talking 25 kids all under the age of eight, a couple acres of land, and, no joke...eight hundred easter eggs filled with chocolate, the best jelly beans bree has ever had, toys, and $1 bills.  

While the adults were hiding the Easter eggs, all 25 kids were quarantined inside the kitchen.  The look on this kid's face says it all...peeking through the blinds you can tell it was torture for him to wait while his parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents and first and second cousins hid the eggs.  The kids went berserk when they were unleashed.  Each of them easily filled their baskets to overflowing within ten minutes. They then proceeded to open all their eggs and organize the findings into different categories: chocolate, jelly beans, toys, dog tags, and money.  They bartered and traded also.  

After that we caravanned over to Alicia's house (down the street) for an awesome dinner.  Aunt Louise made a career out of event planning, and her daughters followed suit.  The place was decked out--bree didn't dare touch her napkin for fear of ruining the oragami-style setting.  We ate a lot of baked potatoes, rolls, salad, and ham.  Unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries so I didn't take any pictures of it.  But trust me, it was beautiful.  They fed about 35 people.  

Then we went to Brenda and Lorin's to decorate easter eggs.  That's where the eggs at the top of this post came from.