Happy Easter and Spring

Eben and I spent Easter with his family and their friends the Tobiasson's in Princeton, MA.  The two families have spent Easter and Christmas together for years.  Sunday was really fun getting to participate in the traditions they've built.  They still have an Easter egg hunt every year even though the youngest is 23.  The parents fill plastic eggs with candy and hide them all over the yard.  This year there were 5 of us 'kids'; Eben, his sister Emily, Anders, Eric, and me.  Prior to the hunt, we're all supposed to pose wearing various Easter head decorations including our baskets.

As you can see here, I was having a bit of trouble with my basket and thus was unfairly delayed when Eben yelled "GO" directly after the photo was taken.  

In the end, I found 19 eggs.  Eben found the most (28.5 eggs).  There were 101 all together. 

Despite my basket handicap I still made out very well!

In addition to our hunt, we each received individual Easter baskets and a wind-up caterpillar.

As could be expected, there were wind-up races which, with my green caterpillar, I won 2 of the 3 races held!  Victory was sweet after my earlier upset in the egg hunt.

All of these games followed a really great dinner prepared by Leslie, Ginny, and Candy.  There was soy and ginger glazed halibut, candied yams, homemade apple sauce, garlicky carrots, corn, asparagus, pork of some sort, rolls and rosemary & cheese breadsticks which I had made.  For dessert we had a King Cake sent from New Orleans, ice cream puffs, and birthday cake (it's Leslie's birthday today, and we were celebrating early).  We were all very happy and full when we parted ways.  It was a lovely Easter Sunday (extra lovely because I didn't have to work!).