Happy Easter. I hope that your Easter was as nice as ours was. We got up and the kids opened their baskets from the Easter Bunny. Then we got ready for church. That included baking some roasted potatoes. We got to church with the family and we were earlier than usual but that doesn’t mean anything on Easter. That means that you sit in the back on the folding chairs. If you want a seat you have to get their early, even for the 8am Mass.
After Mass we had the kids’ Easter Egg Hunt on the front yard and then a surprise for the adults. My sister Tara and her husband Erik put together an adult Easter Egg hunt and you can see my haul above. It was the first time that we had done this and it was really fun.
We had lunch and the kids opened more baskets. We took family photos and more. It was a nice day spent with family.
We went to a very special Egg Drop/Egg Hunt today! The eggs were dropped from a helicopter. Apparently there were 14,000 eggs and that was way too many for the helicopter alone so the field was strewn with eggs and then the copter came in and dropped a bunch more eggs. There were 1200 people registered to attend and it was really busy. But, overall it was fun, well organized and people were pretty respectful. There are always a few who don’t follow the rules or the rules don’t apply to them. Everyone was asked to only collect 12 eggs. We told Eva and Andrew simply, to be kind.
I stood and watched Andrew. He was right on the tape ready to roll. We were really early so we stood for a long time. Close to the start a couple other boys came up and got in Andrew’s space. One pushed him and he told them that he was standing there. He pushed the boy back. Then he came to me. I told him that we don’t put hands on other people but I was proud that he had stood his ground. In his karate class he learns the motto, “common sense before self defense”. I’m not sure if he quite realizes that there should be a longer pause between the two, but he’s learning.
After the egg drop we went for lunch at KC’s Burger Bar and it was a fantastic. Then off to Stop & Shop and Target before stopping over to Eva’s friend Olivia’s house to attend her Bake Sale. She is raising money for Pediatric Cancer Research and also for her own trip for Florida. Half to one and half to the other. The kids had a great time “helping” and we had a nice time talking with Olivia’s parents. Olivia made some amazing cakes and cupcakes in the theme of Trolls. Eva bought one of the Trolls cakes which had little fondant characters on top. Andrew bought a S’mores Cupcake because he stuck his finger in the marshmallow.
