Easter 2010

Easter started calmly and ended calmly. Everything in the middle was a whole lot of running around and fun. In the morning, Vince woke up to his Easter basket full of toys and candy. In hindsight, I find it quite mean of me to give him candy in his basket, only to tell him he can't have any because he hasn't eaten breakfast. But I did. Then I went for a long run while he played with his water colors and new toys (had to burn of those calories I had yet to eat... I still don't know how I managed to gain so much weight over the course of a weekend).


All our in town family came over to my house to celebrate the day. Soon after everyone arrived, we had our annual egg toss... it must be the 5th annual or so. There was a lot to live up to as we heard rumors of last year's champion's, my cousin Kevin and his son Jacob, had been practicing for days....

Newbies to the game took some spills...

Some not so new to the game got splattered in egg...

And in the end there were 2 champions who got the coveted trophy... we must be the best egg tossers in the world... we even had to prove that it wasn't hard boiled!

Vince had a wonderful time playing with all his cousins... at one point when I was inside, one of the kids ran by and told me, "we are playing baby knock down on the trampoline"... to which I ran outside only to discover Vince was having a great time.

David bought a football earlier that day... which Vince refused to let go of...

All the kids were eager to find the eggs in the big egg hunt... here they are trying to figure out where everyone is hiding them...

Look closely, can you see eggs in the Palm tree?? We hid eggs in hard places, but they found them all.. or so I think....

Then.. the egg fight was on... Vince picked up how to play real quick... daddy showed him...

So he repaid the favor to mommy... his way to do it was to crush the egg in his hand and then throw the confetti... whatever works right??

Everyone had a blast "getting" each other...

there was some rough play...

and my newphew hid in the playset with his eggs... and his under the trampoline so no one could get him...

And we finished off the party with some pinata play. The big kids ripped it to shreds... but before they did that, Vince had his turn to try...

and he had to wind down... staying as far away from mommy as he could with his candy because he knows I would take it away :)

Fun day.. love getting together with family for Easter!!!