Monday, April 25, 2011

At Least the Easter Bunny Only Poops Eggs

Just like most people 2000 years ago probably didn't expect the whole "Jesus rising from the dead" thing, our Easter Sunday didn't go exactly as planned.
The plan was to go to church, and then after church they were having a huge Easter egg hunt outside for all the kids. My family in Asia was wanting pictures of Addison so we thought this would be a great opportunity.
We got Addie in her beautiful Easter dress and went to church. Because of the rain, of course, they had to move the Easter egg hunt indoors. As soon as church let out, we realized we had forgotten our camera. We sent Missy's brother Aaron home to get the camera. It's only five minutes away so we figured he'd be there in 10 minutes.
We then went to the nursery to get Addie, only to be met with some bad news. Addie had a huge blowout and had gotten poop all over her leggings and onto her Easter dress. Addison hadn't had a poop blowout in a good 6 months, but of course Easter Sunday is a great day to break that streak.
By now the camera has arrived from home. I'm really glad we had the camera so we could get pictures of a naked Addie or the poop-stained dress. One or the other.
We decided to put Addie's coat on, but other than that she was only wearing a diaper and shoes. We went to join the Easter egg hunt -- only to find that all the other kids had snatched up every single egg.
Fortunately, a mother in our church knew about Addie's plight. She had four kids of her own, so they had acquired plenty of egg plunder during their search. She took some of her kids' excess eggs and re-hid them for Addie, and Addie had a lot of fun finding them. (Thanks Karen!!) 
Despite Addie's unconventional new outfit, we got some good pictures of the egg search.
Somehow, the rest of the day went pretty much as planned. We ate a great Easter dinner and took advantage of the rainy weather to take a good nap afterward.
I suppose, on a much smaller and less important scale, that our Easter was kinda like the one 2000 years ago. It wasn't at all what we expected, but it turned out pretty good in the end.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Arrested Development

I went to play at the WinStar Casino last weekend, the big one right on the Oklahoma-Texas I-35 border.
They were gettin' me pretty good, and I decided to take a break to go outside and talk to Missy.
I was kind of wandering around an empty part of the parking lot as we were talking, when all of a sudden a police car flew up and turned on its lights. The officer got out of the car and said, "I need you to hang up the phone."
I told Missy, "Honey, it looks like I'm getting arrested. I'll call you back."
The officer then said, "Do you have any weapons on you? Please put your arms out."
I'm not sure why he asked me about the weapons, because he patted me down even after I said no.
He then informed me that there was a kidnapping suspect on foot in the area. I waited about five minutes while he ran my ID, then let me go when it came back clean.
After my name was cleared, I tried to report to the officer that the poker players inside the casino were robbing me, but that didn't gain much sympathy either.