Sat, 22 Mar 2008

Special Saturday

The easter bunny came to Grandpa Thaxton's house while we slept. The kids awoke to an Easter basket as well as an Easter egg hunt in the backyard.

Here is a look at what Grandpa Thaxton's property looks like. His backyard is probably .65 of an acre. SO there are lots of places to hide eggs.


View Larger Map

There must have been a hole in the Easter bunnies basket, as there were Easter eggs all over the place. The kids only needed to find a big silver and big gold egg.

Tyler picked up 52 eggs.

After the Easter egg hunt, the kids were treated to a surprise in the garage. Brian and Julie had purchased a Nintendo Wii and had it setup in Gerald's shop. The kids occupied themselves playing Tennis, Bowling, and Baseball. Bre was the champion bowler. She bowled a 184 and had 2 Turkeys in that game. For those non-bowlers, a Turkey is three strikes in a row. She had a blast beating everyone.

We journeyed to Gerties in Twin Falls for lunch. Gerties is a Brick Oven Pizza Bar that is 5,000 times better then Doc's Pizza Buffet. Gerties pizzas aren't stored under any heat lamps. The servers walk around the restaurant with a freshly hand made pizza, similar to Tucanos They then serve the pizza to you by the slice, and take recommendations for future pizza toppings. The first pizza that was brought to us was an Idaho Breakfast Pizza. The pizza toppings were bacon and shredded potatoes in a white sauce. It was very delicious. Subsequent pizzas were Chicken Garlic, Bacon and Sausage, Cheese, Pepperoni, Cookies and Cream, Strawberry, Blueberry, Butterfinger, and Smores. I am sure that they brought by more pizzas, but Gerties also has an arcade. This caught T-y and Bre-Bre's attention from the get go.

They also have a lack luster salad bar, but Amanda didn't seem to care.

On our way home, we stopped by DI to check out the stuff in the "Yard". We found a croquet set for $2.00. Bre-Bre fell asleep on the ride home. She is such a QT3.14.

We played croquet for a bit, the kids lost interest in it pretty quickly. Especially since some stray cat journeyed onto the playing field.

Later in the evening we had a belated birthday cake for Tyler.

It was a good day. The kids were worn out by the end of the day.

:: Posted by brb on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16 pm


Comments

Your Comment

 
Name:
URL/Email:
  [http://... or mailto:you@wherever]
Title:
Comment:
Password:
  [see below for password]
  Save my Name and URL/Email for next time
   
 
(password is 8 characters: three thousand two hundred one followed by the word 'east')

       

←March 2008→
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31          

Admin
@

About
grinNberrett
Sometimes in life you just need to grinNberrett

Contact Me
Email: brent at berrett dot net
AIM: grinNberrett

Search 'grinNberrett'

Proclamations
Exaggerated opinions of my own importance. Proceed with caution.

Buy Me Stuff
My wish list is my gift to you (yes, shameless, I know).

Subscribe
Subscribe to a syndicated feed of my weblog, brought to you by the wonders of RSS.

Categories
You can isolate posts by category using the following links.

Archives
Past entries are available for review.

Blogroll
These are a few blogs run by my esteemed friends and colleagues. My personal comments about the blog (and its author) can be accessed by clicking on the "wtf?" graphic to the immediate right of each entry (wtf = "What the flip?" as in "What the flip is grandma doing at the sand dunes?").