Happy Easter! As always, it's cold here on Easter. We've lived here almost 6 years, and no matter how warm it's been (mid-80s last week), it is always cold for Easter. Maybe it's to make us sympathetic for all those northerners that still have snow. At any rate, it didn't stop the kids from running around outside looking for eggs. They refused to believe there were more eggs and kept looking. It also didn't stop the sun from melting the chocolate inside said eggs...

Along with this chilly day we have wind. Spring out here means wind, and lots of it. It's nothing to have 25 MPH winds. We routinely have gusts that are tropical storm force or higher- the highest at our house so far is 72 MPH last spring. When it gets that windy everyone gets cranky, including the dogs. They refuse to go outside and the older one likes to hide from the wind, which gets really interesting when they haven't been out all day. When the oldest kid was younger it was cold and windy and I was tired of waiting for them to hop in their carseat, so I said the wind would blow them away if they didn't get in the car RIGHT NOW and, suprisingly, they not only believed it, but to this day they are still wary of windy days. Man kids are gullible.