Easter Fun!

The Saturday night before Easter we decided to dye Easter eggs. Donny hadn't done this for a while...since he was 12.
Sorry, I can't figure how to get the blasted picture to turn so just turn you head to the right to view our creations. The one in the back that reads, "pick me" kind of creeped me out. Every time I opened the fridge and saw it there crying out to be picked.

In my family we have a tradition of hiding a 'golden egg.' No it isn't really golden it is just the special egg that has a special prize attached to it. As I grew up my competitive nature was instilled at a very young age. As an outcome I found the golden egg about 90% of the time. Now my parents didn't treat the hiding of the golden egg lightly, they took it as serious as my brothers, sisters and I did in finding it. They hid the egg in places like the bottom of the fish tank and inside the piano. The prize wasn't necessarily the incentive to find the egg, it was the pride in saying you found the golden egg. I just found out that some of my siblings (Angie and Rock) still carry a grudge towards my success as the recipient of the golden egg through out the years.

So Donny and I decided to hide eggs for each other along with a golden egg and the person that found their the fastest was the winner. So one person was locked in the bathroom while the other person hid the eggs. Then the person that was in the bathroom would come out and find the eggs. Then the roles would be switched. He hid the eggs first meanwhile I was in the bathroom imagining every possible place he could hide an egg, again my competitive nature coming out. Well the force was strong with me this year. I found the golden egg in 1 minute flat! I think all the pressure put on Donny to find his golden egg in under a minute was too much. Plus I had a really good spot to hide his golden egg. He hid my golden egg in the bowl of our tall floor lamp, a common hiding place from my childhood. I hid his under the hood of the oven. You know where the vent is that covers the fan? Well I slid that over and placed the egg on that, it was still visible but you had to stick your head under the hood to see it. Well it took him a few (8) minutes past my one to find his egg. I reassured him that with time he would get better and to not give up! We had a great Easter together.