Easta

Ah, Easter.  It's a time of celebrating the resurrection of our Savior, the arrival of Spring, and a chance to eat a hundred dollar ham.

Wait.  What?

That's right.  I bought a ham that cost 100 bones. It was an accident really.  I decided to try a ham from the Honey Baked Ham company, not realizing that they line their pigs with gold.  I moseyed into the store one day and proclaimed to the woman working the register that I wanted to buy an Easter ham.  She rummaged through the refrigerator behind the counter, plopped a ham down, and announced my total. I nearly shouted in her face, "Are you crazy?!  It's a ham!"  Good thing I had a $5 off coupon...

But -  the ham was actually incredibly tasty.  Michael is still talking about it.  I guess if you consider that we ate it for 3 meals, left some with my cousin, and made a breakfast casserole for a ward gathering with it, 100 doll-hairs for porky kind of seems justifiable.

Kind of.   

I suppose I'll call this our Easter of extravagance!  In addition to the lavish pig, we loaded our Easter with a myriad of fun activities.  Like a festival and egg hunt in a neighboring town.  Kitty was able to eat cotton candy, pet baby goats, and make new friends while we waited for the hunt to begin.  Aside from the 100 mile-an-hour winds, it was a beautiful spring day.  The only downside was that the egg hunt was indeed not a hunt at all.  The kids lined up around the perimeter of the lawn and the woman in charge dumped a box of Easter eggs into the middle of the lawn and shouted, "Go!" The entire thing lasted 10 seconds and Kitty only managed to elbow her way into scoring 5 eggs.  But she seemed happy nonetheless as she swapped items with her new friends.  Thankfully, our condo board put on a real hunt the following week and she was able to fill her basket there.

On Easter Sunday, Kitty relished in her gifts from her Dad...I mean...the Easter Bunny, we dyed eggs, and then took our regal ham to my cousin's house for dinner.  It was a wonderful day indeed.  The Easter Bunny even managed to gift Kitty a music box that plays the Star Wars theme song.  I didn't know that rabbit was such a nerd.  

Happy Easter!