Easter Weekend - A Review

Easter Weekend was full and busy. And the weather was just beautiful - 80s on Friday and Saturday, 70s on Easter. Here's what we did:

Thursday

Easter Egg coloring. This being Xander, we got the Monster Egg kit that came with stickers, monster hair and pipe cleaners. Xander has gotten much better at coloring eggs - he lets them sit in the water longer so the colors are better, instead of giving everything a cursory dip in his haste to get to the next egg. And Joe likes to do multi-colored eggs, so he was messing around with that.

Me, I did two. One yellow, one blue, and I left them in the coloring until they were nice and bright. No pastel eggs for me!

Saturday

We went up to Xander's school for some Easter activities. There wasn't a very big turn out, maybe ten kids, but Xander had fun. He got his face painted, played on the playground, colored an egg, and colored a picture.

The big highlight was the Easter egg hunt in the gym. He ran around like a crazy boy until he had a plastic bag full of eggs. Mostly hard candy and gum, though, not a lot of chocolate (the good stuff). We left after that, and he got to go home and play with the hose - one of his favorite things to do. After he went to bed I had to finish prepping for Easter morning.

Sunday

Easter morning. Xander got up at the ridiculous hour of 6am and by 7am he was going insane because he wanted to hunt for his eggs but had to wait for Joe to get home from work (which didn't happen until about quarter of nine). The Easter bunny left Xander a picture map of egg locations, and an empty basket to put the eggs in. The eggs were filled with chocolate (the good stuff!) and Legos. And the last thing to find was the Easter basket, which was full of dragon-related toys and a Scooby-Doo video.

My mother-in-law came up for dinner. Xander dragged her outside almost immediately, where he showed her how fast he can ride his bike, and how well he can cast his fishing pole. They also talked about what a grouchy father he has, LOL! (Quote of the Day: "You don't have to be mean to me just because Grandma's here.")

I made a big old spiral honey ham, mashed sweet potatoes, and broccoli. Theh ham came out totally awesome (good thing, since we'll be eating it all week) - Jean loved it so much she was gnawing the bone! Just kidding...that bone went home as an Easter present to her dog Smokey.

We finished up the day with some pictures, Xander feeling sick, and Joe scooting off to work. Now starts birthday week - gah!