Home sick and hunting for eggs

We are scheduled to leave for Hawaii on Monday. We've planned this trip almost a year in advance. Everything is booked. Thursday, I get a call from the school that JT is in the nurses office with a 103.1 fever. I rush from the shop to pick him up and bring him back to work with me stopping briefly for tylenol, ibuprofen and these stick on your forehead cool gel things.

Poor boy. I made an appointment to see the Dr that afternoon. We got in and she says it's a virus. We're about 1 full day in so his fever should clear within 3 days then he'll have a cough. I tell her we are going on vacation. She says worst case scenario, there is a Kaiser in Hawaii.

He stays home from school the next day too. It's the Friday before Spring Break. I specifically remember being sick in elementary school and missing the Friday before the Break. I missed the classroom candy, the Easter party. It's all good though since they don't do things like candy and Easter in school anymore. sigh.





By Saturday he seems to be eating again, the fever is staying down. They dye Easter eggs.

Sunday, after a morning of candy and easy pull apart danishes we head to church. We come home and I cook a giant meal while packing all of our clothes for a week. We hide and hunt for eggs.

They grub down on too much sugar. I'm setting the table as we watch a movie that HeaBug got in her Easter basket... Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away.

And then it comes. The puke. Suddenly. And with it... a fever. For HeaBug.

A shower, some tylenol, and a bed on the couch later, some of us sit down to eat a bit of what was going to be fabulous food.

HeaBug swears to never eat purple peeps again.

No need to take her in, I know what this is. It's the virus. The one that JT had. Fever for 3 days then lots of coughing.

Darn you sick. We are still going to Hawaii tomorrow.

Happy Easter. Love the Booth Ohana

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer

Happy Easter.

"At this Easter season, as we contemplate our own mortality and remember loved ones who have passed from this life, our hearts turn to him who promised: 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.' Jesus Christ is the literal Savior of the world, the Son of God, the Prince of Peace, the Holy One of Israel, even the risen Lord, who declared: 'Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world … I am the light and the life of the world.

 'I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father.'

This Easter season, as his witnesses, we testify that he lives and that through him, we, too, shall live."

-1st presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

 B's kept it super low key this Easter. Normally we have a big brunch or dinner with an egg hunt for all of our nieces and nephews. This year we had a lot going on with work and school and baseball that we just didn't get around to planning the big hurrah. 




Then we thought Mr. B would have to be in the shop after breakfast but we lucked out being a little ahead of schedule thanks to our Rock Steady Crew! We slept in and the bugs woke us up to discover that the Easter Bunny 



(who forgot to leave a note like he did last year because he was exhausted from a very busy saturday and he just plum forgot) had filled each LilloB's basket with new books, a movie, good ole' pez and a few hazelnut chocolates. He left them by new scooters and shoes!

I put together a jammin breakfast and we sipped OJ and italian sodas from champagne flutes. GK and Papa stopped in bearing baskets filled with treats and bordeaux eggs! It was nice to visit for a while and we spent the morning coloring eggs and riding scooters in the house (gasp) since it was drizzling outside.

After a nap and cleaning up, our little boothohana went to the movies to see RIO. Super cute, funny and highly recommended! We arrived home where Maga and Tutu had hidden all of our dyed eggs and a few plastic ones all over the front yard. JT and HeaBaby had the best time filling up their baskets with eggs. We spent the rest of the evening outside practicing scooter riding and enjoyed a day together.

Egg-stra special Day!

Each year we love hosting our Easter Brunch! Last year we had a dinner but this year we were back on track! The niece and nephews camped out here the night before and woke up to chocolate croissants, hot cocoa and Crunch Berries ;) The kids had a fun morning dying eggs and trying to stay out from under foot as we all bustled around the kitchen like we do. Brunch was AMAZING (gosh, every time I even think the word I channel a Minster voice... Look what a lasting impression you made Elder!). Yana Mama brought yummadocious lemon glazed shortbread cookies (I WILL NOT even tell you how many I had... but it ended in teen, whatever). We had broccoli cheddar and ham and cheddar quiches, strawberry trifle, tomato basil feta salad, homemade egg bread, french toast soufflé, fruit, veggies and um... 100 hot wings from Wingstop! ;)

The kids diligently ate their food so that we could get on with the important part already! The egg hunt. This year, instead of stuffing all the plastic eggs with candy, we put a coin inside and when they'd collected all they could hunt down, they could turn in their eggs for premade candy bags. It was a lot less hassle this way and I was fortunate to have so many willing bag stuffers hard at work that morning.

Hea Baby knew exactly how to find eggs as Maga had been practicing with her for about a week beforehand. We warned all of our little hunters that eggs in the grass were for Hea Baby and they were all great about leaving them alone. Mind you we had excellent hiders and hunters of all skill levels ;) The egg hunt was fun as it always is and the rest of the day was filled with Sisters singing our favorite Beatles, Ingrid, and Oh Brother Where Art Thou songs. Tutu playing the ukulele, lots of visiting and laughter. Jack's incessant flirting with Buster's girlfriend Tas, a livingroom full of Sunday afternoon nappers...

oh and AN EARTHQUAKE! Rolling as opposed to the jerky ones that I expect and it was very, very long as any other So Cal'r will tell you. Thank goodness all we had was a little pool swish-swash. Definitely something to make Easter memorable (I mean aside from the obviousness of our annual recognition and celebration of when our Savior Jesus Christ was resurrected). General Conference was this very weekend and I'm so glad that God created Tivo ;) We've been enjoying it post Easter Weekend in bits and pieces because there will never be 4 hours that we can sit down without interruption... for probably another 10 years. haha.

We are so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives and are happy that we get to spend time with them. We Love you guys!! Y'all come back now y'hear?!