Easter Day

So along came Easter morning.  As I had a singing engagement in Princeton, the morning schedule was going to be tight.  The goal was to get up, get ready, get the kids up and ready, then have a little Easter egg hunt for the Kane family.  This ended up being very ambitious of us as we woke up very late (after staying up late getting some things ready for the hunt itself and for the annual Easter breakfast...Colleen's baked french toast...completely awesome stuff) and discovered the children to be less than cooperative about getting this goal done...there was a lot of crying and flopping and flailing and the like throughout the morning.  Time escaped us and I had to get moving to Princeton for my singing engagement.  The day was not off to the great start we would have liked. 

 We all made it through our respective services with little problems (granted my church service was much less dramatic as I had no children with me...and I got paid for it, which is a real bonus).  And we all converged at my mother-in-law's house for breakfast.  Everything went well there and we parted ways for the kids to get some nappage in before the Easter dinner and festivities at Aunt Chris' house later in the day.  Dinner was scrumptious, as one would expect.  People who were battling in the family's Biggest Loser competition weighed in for the final weight (no, I didn't win, but I came in 3rd), and the festivities began!

 We started off with an Easter egg hunt...Christopher did very well...Matthew, on the other hand, well....just check out the picture.  That pretty much summed it up for him. He did buck up and get 3 or 4 eggs before it was all said and done though...

 We also got some pretty nice pictures of the cousins' children...here are highlights of a few of them...

Christopher ended the Kane's involvement in the family's Easter extravaganza abruptly with some less than appropriate behaviors, so he and Colleen left a tad early and he got an early ticket to bed.  Matthew and I followed suit a few minutes later (after I finished my pilsner)...Easter was done for the day for us.  Do not fret, however....the eggs that were hidden for the Kane Easter egg hunt remained so and we were able to complete the hunt this morning without a hitch!  Everyone ended up happy.