Monday, April 13, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIE!!!!

Here's a birthday cake with a bit of pizzaz and style for you! You know, a bit of black and white since that's what I tend to like and just not very mainstream :).  Love ya friend!!!  Hope you have a great day! 

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter!

I realize I still have a Hawaii post pending... I'll finish it up one of these days (still waiting for that inspiration to hit so that I doesn't just sound like a travel log :))... but anyway, it's Easter so I thought I'd do a post and wish you all a HAPPY EASTER! 

So, in my family we always celebrated Easter but it never was a massive production of any sort. I think some of that has to do with the fact that we lived away from extended family and so we just sort of did our thing. Every Easter, however, we would each get a large chocolate egg that my parents would hide around the house. We each had a specific egg assigned to us and we had to find our own egg (you couldn't just take someone else's egg). My parents would hide the ones for us younger kids in fairly easy locations and the ones for the older kids would be harder to find. Anyway, after we got to be a certain age my parents stopped hiding our eggs and they would just give them to us. Well, apparently the year that my parents stopped hiding the eggs Debbie was pretty devastated because she was quite fond of searching for the egg. She never told my parents but Rick and I knew she was disappointed so we decided to hide Debbie's egg so she could get her egg hunt experience. (I don't remember this story but this is the story my dad told me that Debbie told him). Side note to Debbie: Debs if the story is incorrect feel free to correct it :). Also if you are reading the post today, today being Easter Sunday or Monday morning, you should probably just close my blog and come back to it on Tuesday... consider that my spoiler alert... we don't want this to turn into another Secret Santa incident :). Ok, that's the end of my side not to Debbie. Anyway, so after hearing Debbie tell this story my dad decided to buy some Easter candy so that he could hide it for Debbie and make us search for it. Debbie, however, had Easter at her in-laws today and since she wasn't around my dad just handed us our Easter candy and hid Debbie's for tomorrow (I picked the hiding spot though... good luck finding it :)).  

So anyway, here's a picture of my dad and me with my Easter candy. 


And a picture of Dan and my mom with the flowers Dan bought for my mom. 


These are crappy pictures cause they were taken with my iPhone since I didn't have my camera with me but thought I'd share them anyway. I am missing the picture Ose took of Nicole with their Easter candy cause it was on his iPhone. Side note to Ose: Send me the picture you took and I'll put it up on the blog. 

Anyway, hope you guys had a Happy Easter!