Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Easter

I often wish laziness could be compartmentalized into just one aspect of my life. Well maybe it can, but in my case it cannot. I am happy I chose to pick up the camera on Easter. Spring break passed and I was going to pick it up... but I went to PA without the camera. I left it with K, who maybe would have picked it up, if I had not taken the battery charger with me to PA.




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Easter Pic

This year I am hoping to shake off my bah.hum.bug attitude of all holidays. 3 weeks ago I remembered Easter was coming, so that made it easier to prepare. I talked to k about it and the first words out of his mouth were - "NO CANDY" - I almost fainted. Where am I going to get candy if I can't take if from the kids baskets. I decided to regroup, and we were able to successfully pull of Easter with each boy getting a basket full of baseballs and two Hershey bars. (come on - you knew I couldn't do it) Sadly in a moment of desperate need for chocolate - I bought one of J's Hershey bars off him for a dollar - you can say it, "pathetic". After church we had a little lesson on the real reason for the season, and then we did the hunt.

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Yep... all those eggs and not one piece of candy in them! The only nice part of it was I did not have to be too prepared. I just got the old eggs out and my mom went around stealing change from all the places we could think of. K's punishment will be that when he needs that 51 cents in change from his car.... it will be gone.



Then came the real fun - a scavenger hunt for the big prize. K's other punishment - he had to do the clues for the hunt.

I have to explain one thing before you read on. In the first clue there are two names. The boys (dad included) have and ongoing comic book they are writing and illustrating. Of course they needed super hero names. Well they were pulled from real life of course. I even have a name - I am the arch enemy- but that is for another post. Anyways you will soon see that one name is caca poo poo - that name was given to one of the boys by a very little cousin, Tyler, who heard that word at preschool. Tyler then came home and called J it for the rest of the week. It was so funny to us because my brother and his family tried so hard to make him stop. It lives on in our own comic.



Lego Scavenger Hunt


Clue #1


We need your help my little Padewans Caca Poo Poo and Bed Head Boy. We received a call from Jar Jar Binks on the Planet of Baby that the Bounty Hunter has stolen the Disc of Light. You must go talk to Jar Jar Binks to track down the Bounty Hunter.


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Clue #2


The Bounty Hunter stole the Disc of Light from the Sacred Library and before I could stop him he jumped onto his ship and told me "It's like stealing candy from a baby." But before his ship left, I saw on the coordinates that he was headed for the Planet of Slumber. Skywalker is following him right now. Hurry and go there to help him.



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Clue #3


His ship was too powerful and he shot me down laughing "You must be sleeping because that was so easy. You are no "game" for me. Ha ha ha." Obiwan arrived just before you did. I told him what happened and he was guessing that the Bounty Hunter was headed to the Planet of Games. You must hurry and help Obiwan.



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Clue #4


You two got here just a little too late. he got a new powerful gun and shot my lightsaber out of my hand and said " You are so lame. You can never hold on to your light saber. I will now sell this Disc of Light to the highest bidder." There will be and auction soon on the Planet of Legos. Take these two guns. You will need them because you cannot get close to him with your lightsabers. You must hurry and stop him before he sells the Disc of Light.



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J took his nerf gun and got that Bounty Hunter down in one shot! Under the roof was hiding the Disc of Light (Clone Wars Episode III, Wii game) There are lots of funny things about those clues that k had a lot of fun explaining to me. I will not repeat them out of sheer laziness (and I probably didn't understand them all myself). I am thinking that this no candy thing worked out better for the boys because they got some good loot.

I had to end this post with a pic of the little sushi and her loot. A frog egg with 3 big ones in it, and a bag of m&ms she gladly shared with me.

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