Happy Easter!

The menu was simple yet tasty - sweet potato pancakes with orange-honey butter, baked eggs with garden vegetable hash, and (thanks to my sister-in-law) fruit salad, along with cold, hard-boiled colored eggs for the kids, and mimosas for the adults (mustn't forget those). Anyway, we had an excellent morning and early afternoon. Henry and Amelia looked cute pretty much the entire time they were together, except when they decided the t.v. on the floor was a toy on which they could climb. (It's not a toy on which they could climb.) Of course there were pictures...

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About an hour later - after cleaning up the house and getting started on dishes - we headed out to Newberg to visit with our out of town friends, Rick and Anya. (Who just bought a house in Seattle! Goodbye, condo living. Hello, backyard with garden potential!)

Anyway, as further evidence the world is truly a small place, I shall tell a long story and wind my way (eventually) back to the point. I went to school with both Rick and Darren although I didn't really know Rick all that well in high school. (I knew Darr because of his younger siblings and because he was in theatre.) Darr and I started dating when he returned from college and got a job at the store where I worked. Because of Darr, I met Sandy who is Rick's mom. Darr had worked for Sandy in the past, and not long after we started dating, I started working for Sandy. It wasn't long before we discovered that Sandy was best friends with my mom in grade school. Small world, eh? And in conclusion, Sandy, Rick, and the rest of the gang are very much like family to us so it's pretty cool when we get invited out to their big celebrations. I'd estimate there were between 30 and 40 people there. But since Sandy's house is ginormous and folks kept arriving with bundles of kids, the actual count could be much higher than that. We ate. Henry participated in an egg hunt and the adults got a treat, too, in the form of a burst your balloon, by sitting or stomping on it - game that yielded Darr and I $6 and lots of candy. Needless to say, Henry was a bit sugared out by the time we got home. After much protesting against wearing pajamas, that failed to keep him out of said pajamas, Henry went to sleep. Oh wait, I forgot to mention the Wii! We don't have Wii, and Henry is really far too young to enjoy one thoroughly on his own. But plop him in front of the screen with a few older kids playing some running game and he's on fire!