Easter 2010

Our Easter was really special this year. First of all, this is the one holiday that since Vic and I have been married, we have not traveled to either of our hometowns for. In 2008 (our first Easter of marriage) Vic was scheduled to be the reader at Church. So, we stayed in town, had my brother attend and over for lunch and Vic made some delicious fried chicken! That is what he has eaten every year for Easter at his Granny's house and he loves her fried chicken. So, that was a little bit of home for him. For my bit of home, I made Easter baskets just like my aunt has always made for us kids. Anyways, to make a long story short, each year we have stayed in College Station (going on 3 this year) for Easter to share with one another at our Church and fortunately Charley has always been here too! After the fried chicken year, we changed to brunch because fried chicken takes a long time to make! So, this year at first it was only going to be the norm - Vic, Charley and I attending church, eating brunch and opening Easter baskets. But, slowly over the couple of weeks before, we invited a friend here or there to join us and it ended up with 7 friends attending Easter services and having brunch at our house. It was so wonderful and special! See below for some pictures! We'll start with a few food pics - I wish I'd taken a picture of everything!

Blueberry and Orange-Pineapple muffins

Paula Deen's Baked French Toast Casserole

And I think that is all of my pictures...hmm. Well, we also had fruit salad, Farmers Casserole, cupcakes, white strawberry sangria, mimosas and a delicious sweet treat Ana made whose name I do not know!

Anyways, after a great Easter service with wonderful music, the following people came over to celebrate our Risen Savior with brunch!

Charley and his girlfriend, Ana
Vic, Josh and Kari (the soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Barmettlers come 10/30/10!)
Justin and Danielle
Katerina and I

Some of them played a game of 42 while the food was cooking and then we sat down to eat brunch. Here's a picture before we dug in!

We just had a wonderful day and after a few left, Vic, Charley, Ana and I got our Easter baskets! I don't care how old you get, Easter baskets are ALWAYS fun!!

Showing off some Easter basket goodies; sorry I didn't get a good picture of you Vic!

Ana is super excited about her replacement Taylor Swift CD!

Okay, and before you view the next picture you should know that Easter baskets are SO much fun just like stockings are and I tend to want to just fill them to the brim. Plus, with Charley - he is a poor college student who NEEDS gift cards and clothes and food and money and the Easter basket is a great way for me to provide for him. So, I might have gone a little overboard...

This is Vic asking me whose money was used to pay for all of Charley's gifts. Silly Vic - he has such a hard time understanding that his money is my money and my money is his money and we share and it's ok to spend it sometimes. His face says it perfectly though! Oh Vic! Fortunately, even though he "acts" like it was a problem, he and I both know he doesn't mind!

What makes this funnier is that I posted this picture on Facebook and one of his co-workers stated that this was the same face he uses when she wants to spend too much of their agency's money at work! Poor Vic cannot catch a break!

And here is a picture of me - I debated putting it because my hips look gigantic in it! So, then I attempted to make the picture smaller....I don't think it helped those hips! But, I had to post a picture of my Easter basket because my Aunt GG surprised me by mailing it and having Vic hide it. I loved it - it was so fun and cute!

And finally the last picture. Vic finally got happy again when he got his 1980's lawn chair to layout and get all super hot and tan in. He has been looking for one, but lawn chairs are sort of pricey. So he decided this was what he wanted and then we could not find one anywhere. When I found this the day before Easter, it was the last one in Target. Whew. This saved me from the "Stop spending so much money on Charley" lecture I could have gotten. Oh who are we kidding? Vic is never angry with me!

I hope everyone's Easter was as blessed as ours. Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia Alleluia!