Easter 2008, the short version

Easter was a huge hit this year. We had 800-900 eggs this year and it took me 3 hours to hide them all. It was also pouring down rain most of the day (even though the day before and day after were sunny and lovely). Oh well. We rolled up all the rugs, pushed back the furniture and rigged a popup shelter with tarps along the side so we could be outside on the porch as the rain came horizontally.

I'm still putting together the pictures and the games, but here are a few to get you started. 50 people, lots of games.


Carrot Board with the 50 carrots:


Telling the rules of the egg hunt before it begins. We had a break in the rain:


Egg hunt madness:


After the egg hunt. The crowd watching the games taking place:


Laughing at the games:

Birthday cupcakes and Honey-do

Ken turned 34 this past weekend. We had a fun, low key weekend. That morning, we met up with a group of friends for a cornhole tournament at a local bar. (Ken fell in love with the game at the Hog Roast. Cornhole is essentially a bean bag game that is played by tossing beanbags into a hole on a board 33 feet away... in the hole gives you 3 points, on the board is one point. We played indoors, but this picture gives you an idea of what it looks like.) Ken and I were partners and we got bumped out in the first round by the team that won the whole thing (also friends of ours). Turns out we scored the most points against them.... in contrast, the 2nd place team got shut out in the finals.

I made cupcakes and brought them to the bar. I learned that chocolate cupcakes filled with marionberry jam are excellent. Especially when topped with cream cheese frosting and eaten for breakfast.

After the bar, we laid low since we were going to a halloween party that night. Ken went as a baby (a friend of ours had a sun tattoo covered up and was explaining how she no longer has her sun... enter another friend who thought she said "son" meaning she lost a baby. Ken decided to exploit the running joke.) I went as Barbaro, the Kentucky derby winner who broke its leg and was eventually put down. I used paper mache to make a cast and horsehead, the latter I left at the bottom of the hostess' bed at the end of the night.

Sunday was low key. Lots of football in the house. I also finished priming the garage doors and windows. The windows are all ready to be hung -- Ken said he'd hang them this weekend while I'm away at my conference. I am excited. I can't wait to see them up. Just a little bit left until the garage is finished. Finally.

Slappergories

Sunday night we had a multi-course dinner for two of our teammates (Tobriah and CanErik, who share the same birthday -- Feb 17th). I had everyone pick a course and bring food. We were supposed to do two signature drinks, a KoCanErikee (the baddest pink drink a Canadian can get) and a Tawdry Tobriah (a dirty martini for a dirty girl), but Alyson forgot to make hers so the KoCanErikee ended up being a cosmo. Here's the menu:

Hors d'oeuvres (FanEric) -- Bruschetta
Course 1: Duo of Thai-ppetizers -- Chicken Satay (Brian) and Nim Chow (spring rolls; Dennis)
Course 2: Caprese Salad (CanErik and Erin)
Course 3: Pasta with Tomatoes (Tobriah)
Course 4: Rouladen of Beef (Lisa) -- a german dish that tasted great but looked like poo. seriously.
Course 5: Chocolate layer cake with coffee and vanilla ice cream (Alyson)
Coffee (Marne)

Everything went great despite a few hitches and the highlight of my night was playing Slappergories, a twist on scattergories where we all submitted categories that were relevent to our team. Here are the cards; thought you'd get a kick out of them. (Disclaimer: I didn't do the dirty ones)