It has been a hot minute since I've written anything, and this might not classify as my typical humor post, but in the interest of 'historical event' that our future generations can look back on, I decided this should be the one that gets me back to it.
On Monday April 8th, 2024, our family got the awesome experience of witnessing a total eclipse. And since we rarely celebrate anything low key, we combined eclipse day, Easter, and Ron's 52nd birthday party, because that's how we roll.
Normally we spend Easter weekend in a cabin where we do all the Easter and birthday activities, and since this is a post focusing on family memories to look back on, I'll go ahead and mention
the egg dye tablet incident of 2023. If you read
my post about "incidents", you know that '
incident' is code for '
that horrific thing that happened that should never be spoken of again.' And that's how Ace feels about the time he was eating Chex Mix with one hand while dropping egg dye tablets into cups with the other, got his hands confused, and dropped Chex Mix into a cup and popped the red dye tablet into his mouth. Panic and vomiting ensued and his mouth stayed red the rest of the trip. I feel better having this memory officially documented.
Now back to 2024. Due to some scheduling conflicts, our family ended up in hotel rooms in TN celebrating Aubrey's slightly belated 28th birthday over Easter weekend and we feared including our annual hunt, coloring, and launching of hard boiled eggs at a hotel might be a little overwhelming. (For the hotel. We would've been fine with it, just so we're clear.)
But it didn't stop the Easter Bunny from showing up at the hotel pool waging a water war with the children using a high pressure water gun. We also took over the hotel lobby to watch old family home videos we'd recently found, having no idea what was on them beforehand. Pretty risky, if you think about it. In our defense, we asked to use a private conference room, but they were going to charge us $150. That seemed unnecessary considering they had a perfectly good lobby with an easily hacked television for free. If anyone was bothered by that, they should be thankful we didn't bring our sling shot.
So we rolled all the leftover fun we couldn't do in a hotel to eclipse day at our house, including Ron's annual birthday meal of choice; Thanksgiving, the sequel.
If you read my Bigfoot post, you know my husband is a huge Sasquatch fan and even has a costume he wears to terrorize the children because he refuses to act 52. And before you point out my growing costume collection, let me point out that my frog and Easter Bunny never traumatize anyone. Except maybe Caymen when I wore it outside to wait for the school bus on Leap Day, but that's neither here nor there.
We've also been collecting things for a family time capsule because between leap year and a total eclipse, 2024 will be a year we'll want to look back on.
With all of that, the running theme for Chuckle's birthday weekend became 'A Few Of His Favorite Things' and if you're a Sound Of Music fan like I am, you just sang that in your head. And if you know me at all, you won't be surprised that I rewrote the lyrics in his honor:
Thanksgiving dinner and Big Foot shaped cupcakes
Bright colored fireworks and boat rides on the lake
Fresh colored Easter eggs launched from a sling
These are a few of his favorite things
Pizza from Marcos and March Madness watching
Egg hunts and golf carts and lots of Sasquatching
The pool open early, the sun eclipsing
These are a few of his favorite things
Kids in their wetsuits and pool water splashes
Getting yelled at for taking off their eclipse glasses
Being the target for shots from the sling
These are a few of his favorite things
When the year leaped
When the moon creeped
And the sky looked rad
We'll always look back on these favorite things
And all of the funnn we had!
It feels good to write again. Tune in next time when I tell you about my first time in a spray tan machine. In the meantime, here's a little photo dump of April 8th, 2024 and a list of Facebook Reel links for our family to look back on one day.
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| Yes, Zac is on the roof. |
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| Slinging Easter eggs at Sasquatch |
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| "NO, I did NOT look at the sun without my glasses!" |
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| Credit for this photo; Aaron Shirk |
I've recently discovered a LOVE for creating Facebook reels for our family events, because for me, looking at pictures to a song makes my heart extra happy. Here's a list of our reels so far and I'll keep this updated. I really hope Facebook doesn't do anything stupid and these reels live on for our family to continue watching:
