Easter

and Spring Break Part 5

On our last day of spring break we went to the Tech Museum in San Jose.  We watched an Imax movie (about space - I think they have three different movies all about space!!) and spent a few hours exploring the displays at the museum.  Here are a few pictures from The Tech.

And then spring break was over.

The kids headed back to school and we started preparing for Easter.  One night after school we dyed Easter eggs.  Somehow I always end up angry at the end of Easter egg dyeing so I tried to remain calm and pleasant this year.  Emma did drop some hard boiled eggs from a great height into the dye, breaking the egg and splashing egg dye far and wee (which John did last year) but I tried not to be too big of a mom-ster (deep, cleansing breaths).  And we got through it.  Hopefully it was fun for the kids.

John was very enthusiastic about dyeing the eggs

He got lots of eggs dyed.  Good work John.

Emma's egg matched her potato chip

Anna and Matthew thinking up names for their eggs

We had fun getting the eggs ready.

Here are the kids Easter egg hunting in our back yard

They made short work of it.  We had to walk Emma through it.  

She wasn't too sure about picking up eggs off the ground.

The big kids left some for her and she eventually got it.

They got quite a haul

Enjoying bunny buns on Easter morning

So delicious!!

We have church at 1pm this year so Scott and I had to do some creative food preparation to get our Easter ham cooked.  Usually we cook it all afternoon in the oven.  So we cooked it before church and did most of our Easter dinner prep beforehand.

I only once in a while get the kids special Easter outfits.  But this year I did.  We were running a little late to church and it was raining as we left but I did want to get a before church picture.  Because by the end of church who knows what state we will be in.  All bets are off.

 Everyone was looking in the general direction of the camera and no one was crying.  So that's something.  We made it through church.  Scott and I are still teaching sunbeams together so every week is a harrowing adventure.  We have a runner in our sunbeam class who keeps us on our toes.  But we made it through church today and got to go home for Easter dinner.

This is not a great picture but our ham was fantastically tasty and a big hit with the kids.  We also had scalloped potatoes, Scott's buttermilk rolls, strawberries and a strawberry spinach salad.  We don't even bother making dessert on Easter.  There is always plenty of chocolate and/or bunny buns to go around.

The Easter table ready for food...

...food and people.

It must be time to eat.  Easter seemed busy this year.  But I think life is just kind of busy these days.  Scott and I are making friends here (the kids have already made lots of friends).  Scott's company finally hired a new CFO (9 months after the previous CFO left) and the new guy started work within the past week or so, taking some of the burden off Scott's shoulders, so we're hoping life will get a little (or a lot) less stressful for him.  And the rest of us are just holding on as we make it through the end of the school year.  I recently spent several hours cleaning out the garage and finally unpacked our last box.  The garage looks a lot better and I count this as a personal triumph.  If I'm ever feeling really defeated I go out and look at the garage to remind myself that the most daunting of tasks is not impossible.  I still have more clutter to deal with in the house but getting there.  Seven more weeks of school until summer...