Happy Easter

Hope your Easter was a happy one (for those who celebrate it -- if not, hope it was as beautiful a day where you are as it was here fore us). We had a good day ourselves.

After church, an Easter Egg Hunt in the backyard (which Peter was forced to participate in, much to his horror, but when you're a couple of weeks away from turning 13, you gotta work for your candy if you expect any) and our Easter brunch (which inlcuded scrapple, much to John's delight) we had our own version of an Easter Parade -- our traditional walk/hike.

I'm not sure any Easter walk will top the one from a few years ago at Lake Wintergreen, where we observed hundreds of frogs mating, but today's was pretty good. We went to Sleeping Giant State Park, and walked the Violet Trail along the Mill River. The day was gorgeous, and Peter enjoyed skipping rocks while John and Catherine hunted for frogs (which all seemed to be confirmed bachelors, thank goodness). Strudel had a great time -- she came home and collapsed on the couch for two hours.

We enjoyed a wonderful dinner of ham, scalloped potatoes, and asparagus. Peter agreed to set the table, and gave us a little payback when he opened the china cabinet to get the good dishes, and said, "It smells like the 90's in here." Not sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure it was an insult. I'm also pretty sure we don't use our good dishes often enough.

I was going to include a link for an Easter video -- something from Charlie Brown, or one of the many creative marshmallow peeps videos out there, or the new one from the Muppets, but I'm too tired. You can look up the videos yourself. Strudel and I are going to bed early.