AJ's Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was a biggy - we celebrated AJ's birthday! And he got a part in the show, too!

I got a part!

Making his own birthday cake, red velvet.

Birthday Boy's choice...

Snow!

Birthday breakfasts are the best.

Jamie's study partner is back.

Prom 2022

The festivities started about mid-morning with most of the girls showing up at the Compound to start prepping for the day. By 3:30pm or so we were on our way to the Garden of the Gods for photos. All the other parents met us there for photos, too! Then back to our house for pre-prom dinner and off to the Prom (at a Larkspur event center). I understand a few were back at the house around midnight to continue the fun. Prom wasn't the only big event of the day. AJ had an audition AND callbacks for Matilda by Elevate Productions. We'll see about that one... All the Prom photos are here.

Games Galore

Baseball game. Game night with Denise and Barry. Lots of game playing going on... Including a lunch "game" at Bonefish where we caught up with our favorite hostess from CB Potts.

Safe!

Smoked Old Fashioned at Bonefish

Carrot Lava Cake at Bonesfish

Game night with Denise and Barry.
Had an Alexander Crown, too.
Not sure about the Wolff bubbly.
Tonight's card game: Five Crowns

Easter

Fun day at church and at home. All the photos are here.

Easter Prepping

Mostly cookie baking and baseball. The Blue Bombers won their second game! Sam and a couple friends are in town for the weekend, too. The three of them are hitting the sites nearby.

Passover Seder

Had a great Passover Seder tonight! This was our first full-blown Seder that went 3 hours - without doing all the parts. A Seder is a big deal. The best part was that the kids enjoyed it as much as the adults. Some more info is here.

Matt holds a redeemed afikoman

As Hilda Prager quipped, "Only the men
got out of Egypt."

Matt cooked brisket and burnt ends

Getting ready (not everything is in place yet).

Seder Prep

We moved into serious prepping for tomorrow night's Passover Seder... Yes, we know the actual dates are this Friday and Saturday, but tomorrow is when we could all gather. Click here for some miscellaneous info about the Passover Seder that Jamie developed for the church small group that he and Lynn lead.

For the Charoset...

Charoset...

Chocolate Lava Cake for dessert.

A rare look at just getting started,
which means looking for edge pieces.

Nana and Papa took a break for lunch at Padrino's.

Just a fraction of the groceries...

Nana told a good story...

The Seder Table is taking shape...