Gloucester for Easter

This year, Easter seemed to take second stage to all the other major things going on around the same time.  We put our house on the market, which involved lots of minor home improvements, staging, and boxing up 50% of our stuff.  We're constantly filling out some kind of paperwork or dealing with the latest issue in buying a new house.  And we're leaving for Costa Rica tomorrow at 4am.  So Easter?  It was the least of our problems.  Despite trying to keep the house spotless, we did manage to color easter eggs and have a small egg hunt outside Saturday.  And on Sunday we headed down to Gloucester to get someone else's house messy and overloaded with food!

Egg hunt at our house saturday

Hike at Low Plain for Kimball's birthday

Micah and Becky hosted over 20 family members for the day, including most of Becky's family and ours and Grandma Sally.  It was a gorgeous day (luckily) so all the kids could play outdoors, when they weren't swinging on the indoor rope swing Micah rigged in the upper portion of their garage.  It was chaos, but  lots of fun. The boys had squirt gun fights around the house, and we had a bon fire over which everyone roasted their favorite color peeps.  The peeps roasted quickly- just a few seconds until the sugar on the outside browns and the marshmallow gets jiggly - and I think I liked them better than regular roasted marshmallows. The kids ate plenty of both.

The most favorite activity at Easter this year was sailing home made wooden boats on the vernal pool in M&B's back yard.  There aren't any amphibians in the pool, that we could see, so it was fine for the kids to go tromping around in there with various pairs of adult muckboots, all seven sizes too big for them.  They all overtopped their boots a few times, but no one tripped on a stump and completely face-planted into the muck like all the adults were waiting for!  It was some good, (not so) clean, spring fun.

Grandma and the big girls

roasted peep!

Micah and Finna

Boats in the pool

Haley after she ate a chocolate bunny from Grandma Chris