Easter fun

I decided if I waited to get the camera and the computer and the time all in the same place, I would never post.  So I will have to post pictures later. 

Easter weekend was very fun. We had our regular family get together at Dan's house. We had a barbecue, Easter egg hunt, and games. Thanks Dan and Curtis for cooking in the rain. The food was great. The egg hunt had to be in doors, which worked out fine. Grandpa had fallen asleep on the couch, and we just hid eggs around him. It would have been better if I didn't wake him up by putting an egg on his tummy. But he played along, and pretended to be asleep for the little kids to find the eggs all around him.  We then played the oven mit game. Where you have to roll dice, and if you get doubles, you try to unwrap a gift while wearing oven mits. It was very fun. Grandpa ended up getting lucky, and rolled doubles right as the last of the wrapping was coming off. So he won the candy bar. The first layer of wrapping was a cut up gift bag, with a lot of tape.  We finally had to get some scissors and cut away one of the tape sections.  That was after about 15 attempts by various family members to unwrap it.  Then the kids did the same thing. It was a blast. 

Saturday evening was a ward dinner and a dessert auction for the young women's camp.  For the auction I made 2 Easter egg cakes and covered them with marshmallow fondant. They turned out really cute. I will post pictures later. The fondant was fun to make and it tasted good too!

I think the cakes brought in $85 dollars for the Young women, add to that the $73 I spent on desserts, Kelly has met most of her portion for camp (I don't even know what that portion is).

There were A LOT of desserts to auction and fewer people to bid than they were hoping for, but it worked out well.

Easter Sunday was the normal Easter action with the kids finding their "baskets" and then eating candy.  Their baskets were a combination of ice cream buckets and bowls.  I thought it was good that before lunch Don made some comment about the "candy rabbit".  I think that is a more appropriate name, so we will possibly change the Easter Bunny to the Candy Rabbit in the future.  Easter will have a more Savior related activities, and the commercial things will come from the Candy Rabbit who happens to come at Easter.