The Hub: Easter

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter

We had an action packed Easter! We started the day at the crack of dawn. The kids were more than pleased to see that the Easter Bunny had found them after all (regardless of my threats that if Anden knocked over Taylee one more time than Easter was cancelled!) Luckily the Easter Bunny has baby endangerment memory loss and still brought the kids baskets full of treats, toys, new chairs and new Easter outfits! Taylee thought Anden looked hilarious in his bunny ears and kept laughing at him. Little did she realize that she was graced with an even worse head piece! I've decided it's one of our parental privileges to sacrifice our children's pride for our own amusement.

The Easter Bunny was clearly a bit naive to believe that Anden could be trusted with his new Waster Blaster. We all were quickly punished for this misconception. Luckily Anden's new Easter chair was easily converted to the new Time Out chair. What a fun multipurpose present!

After a lengthy list of rules, Anden was released to the wild to torture anything in his path.

After he successfully broke every rule on his list, we moved on to dying Easter eggs. This was our first experience with real dye and real eggs. I was a bit apprehensive and rightfully so. Luckily I thought ahead to place SEVERAL layers of newspaper over the counter. Crisis adverted!

When we finished scrubbing our skin raw to remove the egg dye, we moved on to the next event. Naptime! Sadly that only included Taylee and not myself. While Taylee was napping, we started the Easter Egg Hunt with Anden. He loved having absolutely no competition! Just him and a whole yard full of teeth rotting treats hidden in plastic eggs. (the freshly dyed real eggs didn't make the cut!) Anden found the eggs so quickly that we had to keep stealing them out of his basket from behind him and throwing them in bushes, trees, rocks for him to re-find! Then for every one we stole, another one fell out. Maybe next year he'll graduate to a bigger basket.

After our Easter Egg Hunt, Grandma and Papa Hospodka came up to see us! Of course as Grandparents, they fulfilled their duty to give better and bigger candy than the parents did. Anden was thrilled to say the least. Luckily Anden was bouncing off the walls. That enabled Taylee to get all the face time with Grandma.

So you ask, "How the heck did you fit in all of this before church??" Well when your kids wake up at 6am and you're one of the lucky fools that don't have church until 2pm, you have a lot of time on your hands! Finally 2pm rolled around and off we went to church. The kids really did look adorable in their new outfits! Anden told anyone that made eye contact with him, "Look at my new orange shirt!" Taylee was just all grins and giggles like usual.

After church and a disastrous photo shoot, we made a scrumptious Easter dinner full of non-ham related items or any other traditional Easter fare. Then we walked to the park to run off some energy (by some) and calories (by others). You can guess which group I was in. However, I did manage to break out some hidden soccer skills.

The sporting events were immediately ended upon Anden realizing that you really can catch grasshoppers. He apparently didn't figure out that they're jumping away from you for a reason. We deeply express our condolences and apologize to the friends and families of those poor bugs that he managed to catch.