Happy Easter

So we had a pretty rockin' Easter here even with the thunder and lightening storms. My sister and BIL hosted, my other sister came up with her family (BABY TUMMY KISSES!!!), Mom and Pops were here, my brother and his family, and more.

Shades of my childhood, filling plastic Easter eggs with money and hiding them around the house. My older nephew is so lucky since he did not have to compete with other children to try and score all the eggs. Unlike his auntie who had to trudge 6 miles one way uphill in the snow barefoot to find an egg, only to have her mean brother kick her in the shins and steal the good ones out from under her nose.



I hid them all over and we worried maybe he might miss one but nope, he was on the hunt.



In fact, one egg I forgot to fill, and when he opened it and it was empty, oh the indignant look on his face! I was trying to apologize when my brother yelled APRIL FOOLS and everyone cracked up. I guess my nephew has really been getting into playing pranks lately but this one was on him.

I don't care at all this picture is blurry and off color. This child does.not.like. his picture taken, not at all. The fact that I got him to agree to this picture while he was dancing around with the dollar he found makes this shot a winner in my eyes!


{a dollar! oh boy!}

I don't have an SLR and very active children + no flash = lots of blurry pictures. My best shots were stills of the food.


{blessed rye and rainbow bread}

My mom came out with the bowl of cucumbers and sour cream and I said "I hope you saved me some plain cucumbers without that nasty sour cream on them, Mom" and she did! I got a whole bowl to myself. Shades of childhood, thanks mom.


{cheese pierogies, lamb butter, nasty Polish cucumber salad}

This next picture is so funny to me. Most Polish people eat pierogi with sour cream and that is what my sister had, a giant tub. But when it's cheese pierogi, my brother and I, especially, want apple sauce. So my sister was digging around looking for apple sauce and she found this one sad little single serving of apple sauce and put it out. So my brother and I were just eyeballing that little cup and each other, like don't even think about it, that sauce is MINE.


{giant tub of sour cream, sad little cup of precious apple sauce, bigos which is hunters stew, Peche Lambic which is peach beer from Belgium}

We solved that problem -- my sister who was visiting (with the baby) left an Easter gift at her in laws, about 15 min away, so she went back to get it. And we called her on the way and said, hey can you get some apple sauce, and she was like FINE (heavy sigh). Then she had to find some place that was open that carried apple sauce, on Easter, it was all a trauma. She found one store and all she could talk about later was the skeevy guys giving her the eye (she was dressed up, hot mama) when she went in there and how we better eat the damn apple sauce. And in the end the little cup was enough for us, but you bet we were eating the big jar of "government apple sauce", as she called it.

That Lambic was a challenge too, I have been looking everywhere for that stuff ever since I had it at a party in January. But I thought it was sparkling wine and did not have the name of it. I kept going to liquor stores and trying to see if someone would figure out what it was but no luck. I went to four places! Finally I just asked the party hostess the name, then on Thurs I was taking no chances! I sat in the car at Binny's and Googled to find a photo of the bottle, then marched in and said "Do you have THIS" and showed the picture. Yep! 2 seconds later I had the Peche and also the raspberry one.

And after all that it looked like I might not get any, anyway. My BIL, no slouch with a wine bottle, ended up with a broken cork AND a broken corkscrew trying to get it open. This illustration cracks me up:



because my camera makes it look like he was really working it to get it open and the look on my mom's face is so soooo distressed, like OH NOES NOT THE PEACH BEER! And she is not a drinker at all so I've no idea why she looked like that but it makes me laugh.

However the STAR of the show was this adorable baby in his seersucker suit and matching bow tie!





It was hard to get a good pic of him, he was squirmy and did not like his suit. My mom had a talking egg and when you pressed the button giggled and said things like "I'm hiding!!!" and "Come find meeee!" Billy loved that egg, he is holding it and smiling when it talked to him. All the pictures with me sans talking egg, he looks distressed. But I think the Grandma pictures are more important anyway.

Once we got him into his casual clothes and he was playing on the floor with his big cousin he was a happier baby! I love these shots of them playing and interacting.






{cute boys wishing you a happy bunny day!}

It was a lovely party.