Thursday, March 20, 2014

Easter


Easter is always fun. Everyone hides Easter eggs full of candy for kids to find. Kids eat lots of candy, start feeling sick, but keep eating more candy.

Easter got her name from a roman goddess, named Eostre.You pronounce that Estie. She was said to send bunnies to deliver eggs to the people. That is how the easter bunny got started. We have changed Eostre's name to Easter.







 If you are a Christian call Easter Resurrection Sunday! Not Easter!


 Because of this myth parents go out and hide eggs for their kids to find. Then the kids find them, and eat the tasty treats inside them. On Resurrection Sunday, my siblings and I take turns hiding plastic candy filled eggs around the yard, after we have found the ones Mama hides for us to find. We also find the big Resurrection basket, and eat the goodies in there, too. Grandma and Grandpa also come over, and last year Grandpa hid eggs filled with pennies. Pella found most of them. Resurrection Sunday is almost here, so get ready!

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Opal's flower fiesta

This year for Opal's birthday party she decided to have a flower fiesta. Mama bought her a big beautiful dress, but it was too big so Opal said I could wear it for a Mexican dance Eben and I did. For her party, Opal didn't want a cake, but cookies. She wanted gigantic cookies all stacked on top of one another. The flavors from bottom to top were Strawberry lemonade, a giant snicker doodle, then a oatmeal cookie on top with the Mexican flag and on top of that was a pink flower and the words,' Happy Birthday Opal !' In purple frosting.  She also had a piñata, shaped like a flower, and it was the same rules as always, youngest first. I didn't break it open, but instead hit my pelvis. It hurt. I can still feel it, and that was1 and a half weeks ago. It took about 3 rounds of hitting the piñata  before it finally broke open. It was filled with tootsie rolls and 2 tootsie pops.  Then she opened presents. Opal had lots of presents. Here are some things she got, to name a few: a balloon, some linking jewelry, 3 bags of bubble gum, clothes and markers. We had fun and Opal loved it. For food we had enchiladas,  quesadillas and refried beans. For drinks we had horchata and lots of other Mexican drinks. We also had water. Opal invited just the right amount of people, which we thought was too less. She made up a very fun party and helped with the clean up.