I wasn't going to color eggs this year. Seems like such a waste. Jayke doesn't get creative with them so they are all the same...which to me, is crazy. You know me, I want to do something fancy with them not just drop 'em in a glass with one color. Anyway, Ryan, Angi's husband gave me the biggest guilt trip over it so I colored eggs with The Boy.
After we were done and the mess was cleaned up, I was glad I did it. Jayke colors them then immediately eats them. Another reason it is a waste to me. We don't even do anything with them. I've been eating boiled eggs now all week. Good for the diet, but not much fun.
The Easter bunny came to our house of course. He hid exactly 8 eggs. I guess that is all he could find in the garage in all our boxes that are still packed. The Boy didn't care. They had chocolate coins in them and he didn't count. He had plenty of stuff in his Easter basket to occupy him. Shortly after that Oma came over with stuff for both of us. She doesn't seem to get the concept of giving me my stuff in a basket from the Easter Bunny so that The Boy doesn't catch on. I got a garden hose, a sprayer for the hose, paper plates(yes, paper plates) and a picture for my new house. Weirdest Easter basket ever. The best part was that it was delivered in spurts throughout the week.
She told Jayke she got me paper plates and trash bags for Easter and he had a fit. Told her that wasn't a good gift and she wasn't giving that to his MOM! That's my boy...always lookin out!
After that it was off to my dad's for the big hunt! I requested the eggs be filled with $100s but I guess dad didn't like my idea. They had quarters in them instead. I thought there would be a whole lot more pushing, shoving, and possibly even a dip in the freezing pool out of the crowd who were there for the festivities but everyone was pretty well behaved.
We each had an egg with our name on it and we were told only to take our own egg and all the others were fair game. I guess we really let my dad down by not taking each other's eggs and causing an all out war. Only one of us got shoved in the mud. Dad said we must finally be growning up. I think it was more like the yard was big enough for us all to be in our own area!
I won the hunt with 18 eggs, one of which I gave to a screaming boy who wanted it, making me tie with AJ. Our eggs with our names on them had $50 bills in them so I was close to getting my hundred. After the egg hunt we spent the afternoon shooting foam bullets at a target held in front of my sister's head. Best Easter gift Jayke ever got was that target and two guns. We were obsessed! We even let Jayke play with it a little.
Jaykeb got some gardening tools from the Easter bunny and went right out to work in the garden with them. I'm just waiting for him to dig up some of Dad's flowers and all hell to break loose!
So, there is your Easter update. I may have another one later about some of our outside pets at our new house and maybe even some more pics of the house. That is MAYBE...so whoever my anonymous commenter is can keep their shorts on. I will get around to it!
One quick story about The Boy before I head to Lowe's for MORE paint. Jayke went to Florida with Oma and Opa on Tuesday. They will be gone for two weeks and yes, I want him to come home already. Anyway, I called them Tuesday afternoon to make sure that they didn't leave him at some rest stop along the way. Afterall, this was going to be his longest road trip yet and he gets pretty cranky just going to Anderson to my dad's which is 30 minutes! Mom answered and said he was still a passenger but hanging on by a thread. The movie player wasn't working which I'm sure any parent knows is DISASTER! Apparently The Boy had been entertaining himself by spitting spit balls through a straw at them from the back seat and better yet, he took it upon himself to CUT MY MOM'S HAIR!
Now, you may ask yourself, why did he have scissors in the car? That was my first question. I guess he wanted to brush my mom's hair so she gave him her travel bag to get the brush out. He was just brushing away and then she noticed he was doing something else. CUTTING HER HAIR! She had a pair of manicure scissosrs in her bag and he just got them out and started cutting.
I called back later that night to make sure they hadn't killed him yet. They had made it to Valdosta, GA. That would make the next day a shorter drive. They had also gone straight out and bought a movie player, a bottle of bourbon, and Zanax! Don't worry. I called Wednesday afternoon and all was fine. They had made it to Florida safely and were already trying to drown Jayke in the gulf.
