Happy Easter

Charles making his parachute

Kaitlin making a cushion plan






Egg in Spoon race. (Notice J is holding his egg!)





Goofy!









A favorite moment from the day for sure!



Some of Kaitlin's art work. The kids used sidewalk paint to decorate for Easter.

Easter baskets~







We dyed our hands as much as the eggs!



Kaitlin's painted toast and green eggs.

A lack of blogging on my part almost never implies a lack of eventful things to write about. On the contrary, it usually means that I have a lot going on and I am thinking, "I need to blog this." Then you end up with a blog like this one will be - just hitting the high points.

Thursday

About 11:00 Charles proclaimed that we were to have a family fun day in Abilene by golly. But we've been sick, I protested. It is Spring Break he protested - and within 30 minutes we were all dressed and heading to town.

We finally took Kaitlin to that make your own animal store in the mall and let her make a frog. She named her Frogalina. Then we went to Chuckie Jesus (as Jonathan calls it) and played out our tokens. Charles hit a jackpot and the kids ended up with 260 tickets. Woo hoo. Then we went to see Horton Hears a Who - I recommend it. It is actually a kid's movie (as opposed to an animated movie obviously for grown ups). That was much enjoyed by all (especially Charles who got a short nap.) Then we ate at El Chico (.99 kids night) and then cruised books a mil for a little while before picking up a javachip frap on the way home! Delightful (no pictures).

Friday

Friday was fairly uneventful, but there is one part of the day that I just had to blog to remember it. Friday night Kaitlin's GG told her to tell us to take her to DQ. OK. While we were there Charles got to telling stories of things he had done when he was a kid. No one tells a story like Charles (with the exception of his grandmother who he gets that from) and no one remembers a story in the special way that he does. He makes the ordinary extraordinary! That is one of the biggest blessings of having that guy around during all the ordinary days of life! Kaitlin begged for story after story until we finally left DQ and he kept telling stories all the way home. I have asked Charles to start blogging some of these stories so that I can print them out and keep them. I'm sure they won't translate quite the same in print, but I want them all the same. It turned out to be a very special supper.

Saturday

We G's have a tradition of family egg fun the Saturday before Easter. Sadly, my folks weren't able to be here this Easter, and I have really struggled with that this weekend. Nonetheless, we pressed on. We:

painted toast and ate green eggs for breakfast

dyed eggs (in all sorts of fashion)

had egg in spoon races

played egg toss (which turned into chunk eggs at each other)

cleaned up the yard for Easter Sunday (wait - this was not a game, but we had to do it, and C and I are both sore today.)

Then....we played a game where we had to try to figure out different ways to drop an egg from over our heads without it cracking. We used coffee filters for parachutes and cushion as well as straws and baggies, etc. Kaitlin finally decided to make a cushion for the egg to land on rather than wrapping the egg - it worked (she is the only one that did it!). We went through a full dozen of the dyed eggs that way. Charles spent the entire time making a giant parachute from a trash bag. Then he hopped up on the church roof (much to my disapproval) to try it out. I'm including pictures here. He is insane. It did fly, but the egg cracked - so it did not count! I said, "I am blogging this."

The pictures are in the reverse order by the way. Enjoy.