We all had such a great time at Easter that I’ve just now recovered enough to share the pictures! (Actually, Griff has been such a miserable teething mess for the past few days, I haven’t had time to do much aside from the bare minimum.)

Easter lunch/brunch at my parents’ was yummy. We had bacon, Easter eggs, and I made the traditional 3 kinds of Easter rolls (prune lekvar, walnut, and apricot) that we Eastern European types like to have at this time of year. (I skipped this baking project last year for some reason. Oh yeah, because I had a month-old baby. ;-)). I usually make my own lekvar and apricot filling, but decided to use jarred apricot jam this year. Big mistake. It was way too runny and oozed out all over the place and made a huge sticky mess. Yay for silicon baking liners. At least it tasted good.

Our family has an annual Easter egg “fight”. Basically you pair off single-elimination-tourney style and smack your eggs into each other. Whichever egg survives moves on to the next round. Jag and I decorated some seriously badass eggs this year.

Here are Robin and Jag facing off…

There were five of us, so my mom got a bye because she cooked the bacon. 🙂 My dad’s egg beat my egg, and Jag’s beat Robin’s; Jag’s egg reached the final round with Mom.

Mom’s egg was victorious!

Griff was looking around wondering if he was really related to these weirdoes.

I forgot to take pictures of Easter dinner, but it was awesome. Ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potato casserole, sugar snap peas, spinach/artichoke casserole, and rolls, plus chocolate pie for dessert. Yum!

Griff unfortunately had a tough time of it. It seems like he’s been teething on and off for quite a while now. He’s chewing on his fingers a lot (with his fingers shoved pretty far back into this mouth), and he gets extremely upset when I try to feel his gums, but today I caught a glimpse of what looks like an upper molar coming in. He also has red swollen areas where his bottom canines will be, but nothing definite there yet. He definitely is Mister Crabby.

As you can probably not tell from the above photos, we gave him his first haircut last night and this morning. It had to be done in stages with plenty of distractions, but we seem to have gotten a pretty decent result. And you can’t beat the price. 🙂