Easter Sunday

So we had a lovely Easter, though pretty quiet.  Haley had to hunt for her basket and she was delighted by that, NOT!  I initially hid it in the coat closet, hanging up under a zipped up coat, but Steve thought I should make it easier to find so I put it in the dryer.  Didn't even pile clothes around it. Pitifully easy...  We did actually find jelly beans at Tesco on Saturday so we bought 2 of the small containers to satisfy the jelly bean withdrawal they had been experiencing.  I confirmed with some basketball moms that they do not dye eggs here.  Also, all the eggs are brown anyway.   

Oh have to comment on this!  Who could forget the Billy and Betty Bunny Incident?!  Zach was about 2 and he picked them up.  I was trying to get him to set them down and Mom says "it's okay, he won't hurt them."  As I was saying to her, "aren't they ceramic?" Zach banged them together and Billy's ear broke off.  Then Mom said, "oh shit" in a funny voice and we laughed and laughed.  James was with us and he really got a kick out of it!  I think he was 12 or 13 at the time.  Not sure how I ended up with them, but it seems appropriate...

For Easter dinner we had a lovely leg of lamb on the grill and I managed to make the orange salad!  Used the jello that Jeff and Theo sent, and then had to kind of improvise.  No orange sherbet here and couldn't find sorbet either.  Instead, we found some vanilla ice cream bars that were covered with an orange-flavored coating and we bought some whipping cream that was unsweetened, as there is no cool whip or other such sweetened whipped cream as far as we could tell.  They do have mandarin oranges and it set up nicely!  Mmmm, my kind of "salad"!!

 We also got to face time with Connor and Kay and so our Holiday was complete!